Can I Run Penny's Big Breakaway?
Evening Star released Penny's Big Breakaway in 2024. It is an adventure indie game, published by Private Division. It offers a single player campaign. Completionists have 30 achievements to work through. 11 languages are covered by the store listing. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Its Steam review count passes 1 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or ATI Radeon HD 7850 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4770K or Ryzen 5 1400 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or AMD Radeon R9 270X or Intel Arc A380 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 11 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Play is built around platforming routes. The view is in three dimensions. There are 11 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Penny's Big Breakaway is demanding
The graphics requirement for Penny's Big Breakaway is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or AMD Radeon R9 270X or Intel Arc A380 is enough, so Penny's Big Breakaway runs on machines never bought for gaming. Penny's Big Breakaway needs only 8 GB of RAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Penny's Big Breakaway scales hard with the hardware you give it. Windows 11 appears in the requirements, which is worth checking before buying Penny's Big Breakaway.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Penny's Big Breakaway?
Penny's Big Breakaway is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or ATI Radeon HD 7850, 4 GB RAM, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 3.27x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 1.84x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.82x |
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 Penny's Big Breakaway'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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Can my PC run Penny's Big Breakaway?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Penny's Big Breakaway?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200; GPU: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or ATI Radeon HD 7850; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
Can an RTX 3060 run Penny's Big Breakaway?
The RTX 3060 runs Penny's Big Breakaway comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Penny's Big Breakaway?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Penny's Big Breakaway is the GPU.