Can I Run Minute of Islands?
Minute of Islands is an adventure indie game from Studio Fizbin, released in 2021. Assemble Entertainment published it. It offers a single player campaign. Critics scored it 73 on Metacritic. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It carries 17 achievements. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. 8 languages are covered by the store listing. With only 699 reviews on Steam, there is little community data on how it behaves across hardware.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2,5 GHz Dual Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce GT540 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB) |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2,5 GHz Quad Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce GTX 970 (AMD R9290) |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Minute of Islands places its action in a mystery to unpick, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Minute of Islands can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The publisher supplies 13 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Minute of Islands is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Minute of Islands. Geforce GTX 970 (AMD R9290) scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Minute of Islands within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Disk footprint is light, near 4 GB. Minute of Islands expects 16 GB of system memory. DirectX 12 is named, so Minute of Islands expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Minute of Islands?
Minute of Islands leans on the processor more than the graphics card, its minimum CPU, a 2,5 GHz Dual Core, is what most builds trip over. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a Geforce GT540 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB), not a top-end GPU.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Minute of Islands'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 Minute of Islands?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Minute of Islands?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2,5 GHz Dual Core; GPU: Geforce GT540 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB); 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Minute of Islands need?
Minute of Islands needs about 2 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Minute of Islands?
The RTX 3060 runs Minute of Islands comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Minute of Islands?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Minute of Islands is the GPU.