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Can I Run The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is an adventure game from DONTNOD Entertainment, released in 2018. Square Enix published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Metacritic places it at 79. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. The game ships for Windows alone. It is free to play at the base tier. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. 9 languages are covered by the store listing.

Developer DONTNOD EntertainmentPublisher Square EnixRelease 2018Genre Adventure, Free To Play
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz)
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB
RAM4 GB
Storage5 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel Core i5 3470, (3.20 Ghz) or AMD FX-8350, (4.00 Ghz)
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
RAM6 GB
Storage5 GB HDD
OSWindows 10 64-bit
DirectXVersion 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through environments built to be read rather than fought through. There are 8 official screenshots to judge the look from. It is played through a point and click interface.

Why The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is demanding

Very little is asked of the GPU by The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit takes about 5 GB of disk space. At 6 GB, system memory is undemanding.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit targets a mainstream modern PC: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.98x
1440pBorderline1.11x
4KBelow the bar0.49x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns great
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit'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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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?

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What are the minimum system requirements for The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz); GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB; 4 GB RAM.

How much storage does The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit need?

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?

The RTX 3060 runs The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is the GPU.