Can I Run Ixion?

Released in 2022, Ixion is an indie simulation game built by Bulwark Studios. Publishing duties went to Kasedo Games. The game supports a single player campaign. With more than 14 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. There are 57 achievements to chase. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.

Developer Bulwark StudiosPublisher Kasedo GamesRelease 2022Genre Indie, Simulation, Strategy

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5-3570K or AMD FX-8310
GPU	GTX 1060 4GB or Radeon RX 590
VRAM	4 GB
RAM	8 GB
Storage	20 GB
OS	Windows 10 64-bit
DirectX	12

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i7-4790 or AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
GPU	RTX 2060 6GB or Radeon RX 5700
VRAM	6 GB
RAM	16 GB
Storage	20 GB
OS	Windows 10 64-bit
DirectX	12

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in space and the vessels that cross it, moving through a city the player lays out. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. Simulation heavy building games lean harder on the processor as the map fills, so late game performance rarely matches the opening hours.

Why Ixion is demanding

The ask Ixion makes is moderate. RTX 2060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Disk footprint is light, near 20 GB. DirectX 12 is named, so Ixion expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Ixion names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Ixion scales hard with the hardware you give it.

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

Can you run Ixion?

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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.

Ixion targets a mainstream modern PC: GTX 1060 4GB or Radeon RX 590 and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to RTX 2060 6GB or Radeon RX 5700 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Runs well	1.21x
1440p	Below the bar	0.68x
4K	Below the bar	0.3x

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

Each card is compared against Ixion'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.