Can I Run Like a Dragon: Ishin!?
Released in 2023, Like a Dragon: Ishin! is an action adventure game built by RGG Studio. Publishing duties went to SEGA. It offers a single player campaign. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Completionists have 56 achievements to work through. Steam lists support for 9 languages. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. The game ships for Windows alone. Critics scored it 80 on Metacritic. With more than 4 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470, 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 3.1 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4790, 3.6 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 3.2 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, 6 GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 8 GB |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a historical setting, moving through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 8 storefront screenshots of these environments. That openness is what costs performance. Like a Dragon: Ishin! has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Like a Dragon: Ishin! is demanding
Demand in Like a Dragon: Ishin! is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. DirectX 12 is named, so Like a Dragon: Ishin! expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Like a Dragon: Ishin! scales hard with the hardware you give it. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 6 GB, so on Like a Dragon: Ishin! the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. Like a Dragon: Ishin! needs only 8 GB of RAM. Like a Dragon: Ishin! takes about 60 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Like a Dragon: Ishin!?
Older hardware holds up here: Like a Dragon: Ishin! runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 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 | Runs well | 1.36x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.77x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.34x |
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 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 Like a Dragon: Ishin!'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 Like a Dragon: Ishin!?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Like a Dragon: Ishin!?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 3.1 GHz; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Like a Dragon: Ishin! need?
Like a Dragon: Ishin! needs about 60 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Like a Dragon: Ishin!?
The RTX 3060 runs Like a Dragon: Ishin! comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Like a Dragon: Ishin!?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Like a Dragon: Ishin! is the GPU.