Can I Run Sons of the Forest PC?
Released in 2024, Sons of the Forest PC is an action adventure game built by Endnight Games Ltd. Publishing duties went to Newnight. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. The game ships for Windows alone. 16 languages are covered by the store listing. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. It carries 32 achievements. Its Steam review count passes 279 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.
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 |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 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 | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Sons of the Forest PC places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through hostile territory. The view is from a first person view. There are 11 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Sons of the Forest PC is demanding
The ask Sons of the Forest PC 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. Disk footprint is light, near 20 GB on an SSD. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Sons of the Forest PC 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 Sons of the Forest PC?
Older hardware holds up here: Sons of the Forest PC 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 PC'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 PC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Sons of the Forest PC?
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 PC need?
Sons of the Forest PC needs about 20 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Sons of the Forest PC?
The RTX 3060 runs Sons of the Forest PC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Sons of the Forest PC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Sons of the Forest PC is the GPU.