Can I Run Pathologic 3?
Released in 2026, Pathologic 3 is an adventure indie game built by Ice-Pick Lodge. Publishing duties went to HypeTrain Digital. The game supports a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. There are 72 achievements to chase. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Over 2 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Metacritic places it at 79.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | i3 / Ryzen 5 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | i7 / Ryzen 7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2070 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB SSD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Pathologic 3 places its action in an unsettling psychological setting, and the player works through dense spaces with several routes through each problem. Play is presented from a first person view. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Pathologic 3 is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Pathologic 3. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2070 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Pathologic 3 within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Disk footprint is light, near 25 GB on an SSD. 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 Pathologic 3?
Pathologic 3 is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 8 GB RAM, about 25 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: CPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.83x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.59x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.71x |
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.
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Pathologic 3?
The minimum requirements are CPU: i3 / Ryzen 5; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Pathologic 3 need?
Pathologic 3 needs about 25 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Pathologic 3?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Pathologic 3 is the CPU.