Can I Run Stray?
BlueTwelve Studio released Stray in 2022. It is an adventure indie game, published by Annapurna Interactive. It offers a single player campaign. Critics scored it 82 on Metacritic. Its Steam review count passes 155 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Cloud saves are enabled. 16 languages are covered by the store listing. There are 24 achievements to chase. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-6350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780, 3 GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4 GB |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a cyberpunk future, moving through spaces built for exploration. The view is from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Stray has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Stray is demanding
Stray is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Stray. At 3 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Stray. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Stray takes about 10 GB of disk space. Stray calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Stray?
Stray targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780, 3 GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4 GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.7x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.52x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.67x |
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 Stray'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 Stray?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-6350; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Stray need?
Stray needs about 10 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Stray?
The RTX 3060 runs Stray comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Stray?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Stray is the GPU.