Can I Run Return of the Obra Dinn?
Released in 2018, Return of the Obra Dinn is an adventure indie game built by Lucas Pope. Publishing duties went to 3909. It offers a single player campaign. Its Steam review count passes 31 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. There are 16 achievements to chase. Metacritic places it at 89. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. 14 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2 GHz Intel i5 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | Discrete GPU |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 or better |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an investigation. Play is structured around self contained puzzle rooms. 14 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Return of the Obra Dinn is demanding
Return of the Obra Dinn needs only 4 GB of RAM. Return of the Obra Dinn takes about 2 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Return of the Obra Dinn?
Return of the Obra Dinn targets a mainstream modern PC: Discrete GPU and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Return of the Obra Dinn?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Return of the Obra Dinn?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2 GHz Intel i5 or better; GPU: Discrete GPU; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 or better.
How much storage does Return of the Obra Dinn need?
Return of the Obra Dinn needs about 2 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Return of the Obra Dinn?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Return of the Obra Dinn is the CPU.