Can I Run Icarus?

Released in 2021, Icarus is an action adventure game built by RocketWerkz. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. It is localised into 10 languages according to the store listing. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It carries 171 achievements. Its Steam review count passes 53 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.

Developer RocketWerkzRelease 2021Genre Action, Adventure, Simulation

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel i5 8400
GPU	Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
VRAM	6 GB
RAM	16 GB
Storage	70 GB
OS	Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
DirectX	11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel i7-9700
GPU	NVIDIA RTX 3060ti
RAM	32 GB
Storage	70 GB
OS	Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
DirectX	11

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Icarus places its action in space and the vessels that cross it, and the player works through hostile territory. 15 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is from a first person view.

Why Icarus is demanding

The graphics demand in Icarus is at the top end. NVIDIA RTX 3060ti outscores our RTX 3060 reference, and a machine that clears Icarus comfortably will clear most other things. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Icarus scales hard with the hardware you give it. Icarus takes about 70 GB of disk space. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. At only 6 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Icarus. The chip itself is. System memory is unusually high at 32 GB, so a 16 GB machine needs an upgrade even with a strong graphics card.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Icarus?

87%

Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), system RAM is the tightest fit.

Icarus is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.

Bottleneck: RAM

Large install. Icarus needs about 70 GB of free storage.

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Below the bar	0.83x
1440p	Below the bar	0.47x
4K	Below the bar	0.21x

A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.

Common GPUs

Graphics card	Verdict
GTX 1060 6 GB	Below minimum
GTX 1060 Laptop	Below minimum
GTX 1650 4 GB	Below minimum
GTX 1650 Laptop	Below minimum
RTX 2060 6 GB	Playable
RTX 2060 Laptop	Playable
RTX 3060 12 GB	Runs well
RTX 3060 Laptop	Playable
RTX 4060 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 4060 Laptop	Playable
RTX 3070 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 3070 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 4070 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 4070 Laptop	Runs well
RX 6600 8 GB	Runs well

Each card is compared against Icarus's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.