Can I Run Spirit of the North?
Infuse Studio released Spirit of the North in 2020. It is an adventure casual game, published by Silver Lining Interactive. The game supports a single player campaign. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. There are 24 achievements to chase. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. With more than 5 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. 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 i5-4460 or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 - 64Bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through spaces built for exploration. The publisher supplies 12 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played in three dimensions. That openness is what costs performance. Spirit of the North has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Spirit of the North is demanding
Spirit of the North is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Spirit of the North. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. The install is small at roughly 4 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Spirit of the North?
Spirit of the North is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, about 4 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.83x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.59x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.71x |
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 | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Spirit of the North'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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What are the minimum system requirements for Spirit of the North?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 or equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 - 64Bit.
How much storage does Spirit of the North need?
Spirit of the North needs about 4 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Spirit of the North?
The RTX 3060 runs Spirit of the North comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Spirit of the North?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Spirit of the North is the GPU.