Can I Run Risk of Rain?
Released in 2020, Risk of Rain is an action indie game built by Hopoo Games. Publishing duties went to Gearbox Publishing. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Critics scored it 85 on Metacritic. The game ships for Windows alone. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Its Steam review count passes 238 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It carries 171 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 or newer, 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4670K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 680 / AMD HD 7970 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 or newer, 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Risk of Rain structures its play around runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. Because the game assembles its spaces as it goes, the cost lands on the CPU in bursts rather than steadily on the GPU. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why Risk of Rain is demanding
The install is small at roughly 4 GB. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. Risk of Rain needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Risk of Rain?
Risk of Rain targets a mainstream modern PC: GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870 and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GTX 680 / AMD HD 7970 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for Risk of Rain?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-8350; GPU: GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 or newer, 64-bit.
How much storage does Risk of Rain need?
Risk of Rain needs about 4 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Risk of Rain?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Risk of Rain is the CPU.