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Can I Run It Takes Two?

It Takes Two is an action adventure game from Hazelight Studios, released in 2021. Electronic Arts published it. It offers cooperative play. Completionists have 20 achievements to work through. The game ships for Windows alone. Over 215 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. Cloud saves are enabled. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. It is localised into 12 languages according to the store listing. Its Metacritic score stands at 89.

Developer Hazelight StudiosPublisher Electronic ArtsRelease 2021Genre Action, Adventure
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel Core i3-2100T or AMD FX 6100
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD R7 260x
RAM8 GB
Storage50 GB
OSWindows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
DirectX11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel Core i5 3570K or AMD Ryzen 3 1300x
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 980 or AMD R9 290X
RAM16 GB
Storage50 GB
OSWindows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
DirectX11

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Play is built around self contained puzzle rooms. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why It Takes Two is demanding

It Takes Two sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 or AMD R9 290X, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. It Takes Two needs 64 bit Windows. The install is small at roughly 50 GB. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.

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

Can you run It Takes Two?

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

It Takes Two targets a mainstream modern PC: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD R7 260x and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 or AMD R9 290X for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.73x
1440pBorderline0.98x
4KBelow the bar0.43x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns well
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against It Takes Two'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.

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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run It Takes Two?

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What are the minimum system requirements for It Takes Two?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-2100T or AMD FX 6100; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD R7 260x; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit.

How much storage does It Takes Two need?

It Takes Two needs about 50 GB of available storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run It Takes Two?

The RTX 3060 runs It Takes Two comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for It Takes Two?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for It Takes Two is the GPU.