Can I Run Life is Strange: True Colors?
Deck Nine released Life is Strange: True Colors in 2021. It is an action adventure game, published by Square Enix. The game supports a single player campaign. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Completionists have 40 achievements to work through. It is localised into 10 languages according to the store listing. Its Steam review count passes 12 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.40 GHz / Intel Core i5-2300, 2.80 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon HD 7790, 2 GB / GeForce GTX 750Ti, 2 GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-8350, 4.00 GHz / Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon RX 590, 8 GB / GeForce GTX 1060, 6 GB |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game takes place in a mystery to unpick. There are 12 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is from a third person view.
Why Life is Strange: True Colors is demanding
The ask Life is Strange: True Colors makes is moderate. Radeon RX 590 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Disk footprint is light, near 30 GB. Life is Strange: True Colors asks for 8 GB of video memory, so VRAM capacity matters here as much as speed. Life is Strange: True Colors needs 64 bit Windows. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Life is Strange: True Colors at the floor and Life is Strange: True Colors at the recommended tier are not the same experience.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Life is Strange: True Colors?
Older hardware holds up here: Life is Strange: True Colors runs on modest graphics, with Radeon HD 7790, 2 GB / GeForce GTX 750Ti, 2 GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 6 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 | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| 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 Life is Strange: True Colors'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 Life is Strange: True Colors?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Life is Strange: True Colors?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.40 GHz / Intel Core i5-2300, 2.80 GHz; GPU: Radeon HD 7790, 2 GB / GeForce GTX 750Ti, 2 GB; 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Life is Strange: True Colors need?
Life is Strange: True Colors needs about 30 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Life is Strange: True Colors?
The RTX 3060 runs Life is Strange: True Colors comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Life is Strange: True Colors?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Life is Strange: True Colors is the GPU.