Can I Run Nuclear Throne?
Released in 2015, Nuclear Throne is an action indie game built by Vlambeer. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Cloud saves are enabled. Its Metacritic score stands at 89. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. With more than 14 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam lists support for 15 languages. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. It carries 59 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 1.2Ghz+ |
|---|---|
| GPU | 256MB |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | Windows XP |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2Ghz |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1GB |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | Windows XP |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a world after its collapse. Play is structured around runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. Layouts generated at run time move the load onto the processor at the moment each new area is built. Play is presented from a top down view. The publisher supplies 14 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Nuclear Throne is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 1 GB. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 GB. At 2 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Nuclear Throne?
Nuclear Throne targets a mainstream modern PC: 256MB and 1 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 1GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for Nuclear Throne?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 1.2Ghz+; GPU: 256MB; 1 GB RAM; OS: Windows XP.
How much storage does Nuclear Throne need?
Nuclear Throne needs about 1 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Nuclear Throne?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Nuclear Throne is the CPU.