Can I Run The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes?
The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes is an adventure game from Supermassive Games, released in 2021. BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Steam lists support for 13 languages. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. Over 7 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Completionists have 30 achievements to work through. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4690K or AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 65 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce 2060 6 GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 8 GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 65 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes is set in a horror setting. Play is presented in three dimensions. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes is demanding
The ask The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes makes is moderate. Nvidia GeForce 2060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes at the floor and The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes at the recommended tier are not the same experience. System memory expectations are modest at 12 GB. The install is small at roughly 65 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes?
Older hardware holds up here: The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes runs on modest graphics, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB 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
Large install. The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes needs about 65 GB of HDD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.36x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.77x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.34x |
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 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 The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes'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 Dark Pictures: House of Ashes?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K or AMD FX-8350; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes need?
The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes needs about 65 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes?
The RTX 3060 runs The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes is the GPU.