Can I Run POOLS?

POOLS is an adventure game from Tensori, released in 2024. Tensori both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. There are 24 achievements to chase. Over 6 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. It is localised into 30 languages according to the store listing. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. Cloud saves are enabled.

Developer TensoriRelease 2024Genre Adventure

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 from around 2016 or later
GPU	NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 or newer
RAM	8 GB
Storage	12 GB HDD

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 7 from 2018 or later
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or newer
RAM	16 GB
Storage	12 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10 or newer

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

POOLS places its action in an unsettling psychological setting, and the player works through environments built to be read rather than fought through. The view is from a first person view. 13 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.

Why POOLS is demanding

POOLS sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or newer, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. POOLS takes about 12 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means POOLS scales hard with the hardware you give it.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run POOLS?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Older hardware holds up here: POOLS runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 or newer 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	Borderline	1x
1440p	Below the bar	0.56x
4K	Below the bar	0.25x

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	Playable
GTX 1060 Laptop	Playable
GTX 1650 4 GB	Below minimum
GTX 1650 Laptop	Below minimum
RTX 2060 6 GB	Runs well
RTX 2060 Laptop	Playable
RTX 3060 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 3060 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 4060 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 4060 Laptop	Runs well
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 POOLS'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.