Can I Run Sons of the Forest?
Endnight Games Ltd released Sons of the Forest in 2024. It is an action adventure game, published by Newnight. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Completionists have 32 achievements to work through. Over 279 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. 16 languages are covered by the store listing. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | INTEL CORE I5-8400 or AMD RYZEN 3 3300X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | INTEL CORE I7-8700K or AMD RYZEN 5 3600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 1080Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a horror setting, moving through hostile territory. The publisher supplies 11 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a first person view.
Why Sons of the Forest is demanding
The ask Sons of the Forest makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce 1080Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Sons of the Forest names just 3 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Sons of the Forest scales hard with the hardware you give it. Disk footprint is light, near 20 GB on an SSD. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Sons of the Forest?
Older hardware holds up here: Sons of the Forest runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 12 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 | 0.97x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.55x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.24x |
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 | Below minimum |
| 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 well |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs well |
Each card is compared against Sons of the Forest'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 Sons of the Forest?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Sons of the Forest?
The minimum requirements are CPU: INTEL CORE I5-8400 or AMD RYZEN 3 3300X; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB; 12 GB RAM; OS: 64-bit Windows 10.
How much storage does Sons of the Forest need?
Sons of the Forest needs about 20 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Sons of the Forest?
The RTX 3060 runs Sons of the Forest comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Sons of the Forest?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Sons of the Forest is the GPU.