Can I Run The Alters?
11 bit studios released The Alters in 2025. It is an adventure game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign. Critics scored it 85 on Metacritic. Completionists have 63 achievements to work through. With more than 14 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. This is current generation software, and the requirements read that way. 12 languages are covered by the store listing. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Intel Core i7-6700 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 570, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel Arc A570. 6+ GB video memory |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 or later, 64-bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, Intel Core i7-8700K |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Arc A770. 8+ GB video memory |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 or later, 64-bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
The Alters places its action in a science fiction setting, and the player works through hostile territory. The publisher supplies 16 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why The Alters is demanding
The Alters sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Arc A770, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. The Alters needs 64 bit Windows. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means The Alters scales hard with the hardware you give it. DirectX 12 is named, so The Alters expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. The install is small at roughly 50 GB, on an SSD.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Alters?
The Alters is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, AMD Radeon RX 570, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel Arc A570. 6+ GB video memory clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.03x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.58x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.26x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 The Alters'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 The Alters?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Alters?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Intel Core i7-6700; GPU: AMD Radeon RX 570, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, Intel Arc A570. 6+ GB video memory; 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.
How much storage does The Alters need?
The Alters needs about 50 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Alters?
The RTX 3060 runs The Alters comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Alters?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Alters is the GPU.