Can I Run Obduction?
Obduction is an adventure indie game from Cyan, Inc., released in 2016. Cyan, Inc. both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Metacritic places it at 76. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. There are 15 achievements to chase. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. With more than 3 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is localised into 10 languages according to the store listing. 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.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | CPU Intel i5-4590 equivalent or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 w/4 GB / AMD R9 290 w/4 GB equivalent or better |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64 bit |
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Setting and environment
Obduction places its action in a mystery to unpick, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. The publisher supplies 8 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from a first person view.
Why Obduction is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Obduction. NVIDIA GTX 970 w/ scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Obduction within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Obduction expects 16 GB of system memory. Disk footprint is light, near 20 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Obduction?
Obduction targets a mainstream modern PC: GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GTX 970 w/4 GB / AMD R9 290 w/4 GB equivalent or better for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.58x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.45x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.64x |
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 great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Obduction'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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What are the minimum system requirements for Obduction?
The minimum requirements are CPU: CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better; GPU: GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Obduction need?
Obduction needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Obduction?
The RTX 3060 runs Obduction comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Obduction?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Obduction is the GPU.