Can I Run Road 96?

Digixart released Road 96 in 2021. It is an action adventure game, published by THQ Nordic. The game supports a single player campaign. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. It carries 12 achievements. Steam lists support for 11 languages. Its Metacritic score stands at 79. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. With more than 21 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. The game ships for Windows alone.

Developer DigixartPublisher THQ NordicRelease 2021Genre Action, Adventure, Indie

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5 4460 or AMD Ryzen 3 2300U
GPU	NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5700
RAM	8 GB
Storage	15 GB
OS	Windows 10
DirectX	11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5 8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
GPU	NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super or RX 5700XT
RAM	16 GB
Storage	15 GB
OS	Windows 10
DirectX	11

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Road 96 structures its play around spaces built for exploration. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Road 96 has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The view is from a first person view.

Why Road 96 is demanding

Demand in Road 96 is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super or RX 5700XT in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB. Road 96 expects 16 GB of system memory. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Road 96 at the floor and Road 96 at the recommended tier are not the same experience.

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

Can you run Road 96?

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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.

Road 96 scales across a wide range of hardware. NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5700 is enough to get in at minimum settings, while NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super or RX 5700XT and 8 GB of RAM is what it recommends for a smoother experience. Where you land mostly comes down to the settings you're willing to trade.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Borderline	1.06x
1440p	Below the bar	0.6x
4K	Below the bar	0.27x

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	Runs well
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 Road 96'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.