Can I Run Job Simulator?
Job Simulator is an action casual game from Owlchemy Labs, released in 2016. Owlchemy Labs both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. Over 4 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Completionists have 11 achievements to work through. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
Job Simulator places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through an open sandbox. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Job Simulator has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Job Simulator is demanding
The graphics requirement for Job Simulator is light. Hardware around Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent is enough, so Job Simulator runs on machines never bought for gaming. Job Simulator takes about 1 GB of disk space. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Job Simulator?
Older hardware holds up here: Job Simulator runs on modest graphics, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better enough to meet the minimum. Add 4 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.58x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.45x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.64x |
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 great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Job Simulator'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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Can my PC run Job Simulator?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Job Simulator?
The minimum requirements are CPU: CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or better; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Job Simulator need?
Job Simulator needs about 1 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Job Simulator?
The RTX 3060 runs Job Simulator comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Job Simulator?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Job Simulator is the GPU.