Can I Run Sunless Skies?
Sunless Skies is an adventure indie game from Failbetter Games, released in 2019. Failbetter Games both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Cloud saves are enabled. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Its Metacritic score stands at 87. It carries 31 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a steampunk world, moving through spaces built for exploration. That openness is what costs performance. Sunless Skies has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 8 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented from a top down view.
Why Sunless Skies is demanding
System memory expectations are modest at 4 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 Sunless Skies?
Sunless Skies targets a mainstream modern PC: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Sunless Skies?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Sunless Skies?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Pentium 2Ghz or AMD equivalent; GPU: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7.
How much storage does Sunless Skies need?
Sunless Skies needs about 4 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Sunless Skies?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Sunless Skies is the CPU.