Can I Run Occupy Mars?
▲ Pyramid Games released Occupy Mars in 2026. It is an adventure indie game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Completionists have 46 achievements to work through. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It is localised into 14 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | RX 570 4GB VRAM / GeForce GTX 970 4GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1070 8GB VRAM or better |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Occupy Mars places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Occupy Mars has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The view is from a first person view. The publisher supplies 42 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Occupy Mars is demanding
Occupy Mars sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GeForce GTX 1070, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Occupy Mars at the floor and Occupy Mars at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Occupy Mars asks for 8 GB of video memory, so VRAM capacity matters here as much as speed. Occupy Mars 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 Occupy Mars?
Older hardware holds up here: Occupy Mars runs on modest graphics, with RX 570 4GB VRAM / GeForce GTX 970 4GB VRAM 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 | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
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 well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Occupy Mars'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 Occupy Mars?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X; GPU: RX 570 4GB VRAM / GeForce GTX 970 4GB VRAM; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Occupy Mars need?
Occupy Mars needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Occupy Mars?
The RTX 3060 runs Occupy Mars comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Occupy Mars?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Occupy Mars is the GPU.