Can I Run Northgard?
Northgard is an adventure indie game from Shiro Games, released in 2018. Shiro Games both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. With more than 54 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Its Metacritic score stands at 81. There are 289 achievements to chase. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. 11 languages are covered by the store listing. It is not Windows only, with macOS and Linux covered too.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | Windows Vista or better: 64 bits required |
| DirectX | 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5 3.1 Ghz Quad core |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7800 or better |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 or better: 64 bits required |
| DirectX | 10 |
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Setting and environment
Northgard places its action in a wartime setting, and the player works through a city the player lays out. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large. There are 12 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Northgard is demanding
The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10. System memory expectations are modest at 2 GB. Northgard needs 64 bit Windows. Northgard takes about 1 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Northgard?
Northgard targets a mainstream modern PC: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better and 1 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Nvidia GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7800 or better for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Northgard?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Northgard?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo or equivalent; GPU: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better; 1 GB RAM; OS: Windows Vista or better: 64 bits required.
How much storage does Northgard need?
Northgard needs about 1 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Northgard?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Northgard is the CPU.