Can I Run Master Detective Archives?
Master Detective Archives is an action adventure game from Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., released in 2024. Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Steam lists support for 9 languages. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. There are 38 achievements to chase. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Core i3-8350K or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super, 6 GB or AMD Radeon RX 5600XT, 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit)/Windows 11 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Master Detective Archives places its action in an investigation, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Master Detective Archives has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is in three dimensions.
Why Master Detective Archives is demanding
The ask Master Detective Archives makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. DirectX 12 is named, so Master Detective Archives expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Master Detective Archives takes about 60 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Master Detective Archives at the floor and Master Detective Archives at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Master Detective Archives names Windows 11, so a Windows 10 machine may need attention first.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Master Detective Archives?
Older hardware holds up here: Master Detective Archives runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470 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 | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
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 Master Detective Archives'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 Master Detective Archives?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Master Detective Archives?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Core i3-8350K or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64-bit).
How much storage does Master Detective Archives need?
Master Detective Archives needs about 60 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Master Detective Archives?
The RTX 3060 runs Master Detective Archives comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Master Detective Archives?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Master Detective Archives is the GPU.