Can I Run Mortal Shell?
Cold Symmetry released Mortal Shell in 2021. It is an action role playing game, published by Playstack. It offers a single player campaign. Over 10 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam lists support for 14 languages. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It carries 37 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1 or newer |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Mortal Shell places its action in a bleak fantasy world, and the player works through interlocking areas that reward learning the route. It is played from a third person view. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Mortal Shell is demanding
Mortal Shell sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Disk footprint is light, near 12 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Mortal Shell scales hard with the hardware you give it. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Mortal Shell?
Older hardware holds up here: Mortal Shell runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 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 Mortal Shell'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 Mortal Shell?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Mortal Shell?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 SP1 or newer.
How much storage does Mortal Shell need?
Mortal Shell needs about 12 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Mortal Shell?
The RTX 3060 runs Mortal Shell comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Mortal Shell?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Mortal Shell is the GPU.