Can I Run Synthetik?
Flow Fire Games released Synthetik in 2021. It is an action indie game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Completionists have 35 achievements to work through. Its Steam review count passes 3 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Steam lists support for 11 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | i3-6100 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 9 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | i7 8700k |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super, newer is better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 9 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a science fiction setting. Play is structured around runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from. Layouts generated at run time move the load onto the processor at the moment each new area is built. Play is presented from a top down view.
Why Synthetik is demanding
Demand in Synthetik is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super, newer is better in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Synthetik at the floor and Synthetik at the recommended tier are not the same experience. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Synthetik takes about 9 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Synthetik?
Older hardware holds up here: Synthetik runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 970 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
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 Synthetik'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 Synthetik?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Synthetik?
The minimum requirements are CPU: i3-6100; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Synthetik need?
Synthetik needs about 9 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Synthetik?
The RTX 3060 runs Synthetik comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Synthetik?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Synthetik is the GPU.