Can I Run Stranger of Paradise?
Square Enix released Stranger of Paradise in 2023. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. With more than 3 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It carries 83 achievements. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i7-6700 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ RX 470 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 90 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 / Intel® Core™ i7-8700 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 XT / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 SUPER |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 90 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Stranger of Paradise places its action in a bleak fantasy world, and the player works through interlocking areas that reward learning the route. The view is in three dimensions. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Stranger of Paradise is demanding
The ask Stranger of Paradise makes is moderate. AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Stranger of Paradise scales hard with the hardware you give it. Stranger of Paradise takes about 90 GB of disk space. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 6 GB, so on Stranger of Paradise the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Stranger of Paradise?
Older hardware holds up here: Stranger of Paradise runs on modest graphics, with AMD Radeon™ RX 470 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB VRAM enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Stranger of Paradise needs about 90 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Stranger of Paradise'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 Stranger of Paradise?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Stranger of Paradise?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i7-6700; GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 470 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB VRAM; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Stranger of Paradise need?
Stranger of Paradise needs about 90 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Stranger of Paradise?
The RTX 3060 runs Stranger of Paradise comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Stranger of Paradise?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Stranger of Paradise is the GPU.