Can I Run The Dark Pictures: Little Hope?
Released in 2020, The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is an adventure game built by Supermassive Games. Publishing duties went to BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Steam lists support for 13 languages. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Completionists have 30 achievements to work through. With more than 7 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. It keeps shared screen play alive, so a second player needs only a second controller. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 8570 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5- 8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a horror setting. Play is structured around hostile territory. There are 9 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is demanding
The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear The Dark Pictures: Little Hope. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so The Dark Pictures: Little Hope at the floor and The Dark Pictures: Little Hope at the recommended tier are not the same experience. DirectX 12 is named, so The Dark Pictures: Little Hope expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. The install is small at roughly 80 GB. The Dark Pictures: Little Hope needs 64 bit Windows. The Dark Pictures: Little Hope needs only 8 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Dark Pictures: Little Hope?
Older hardware holds up here: The Dark Pictures: Little Hope runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 8570 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: Little Hope needs about 80 GB of HDD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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: Little Hope'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: Little Hope?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Dark Pictures: Little Hope?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD FX-8350; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 8570; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64bit.
How much storage does The Dark Pictures: Little Hope need?
The Dark Pictures: Little Hope needs about 80 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Dark Pictures: Little Hope?
The RTX 3060 runs The Dark Pictures: Little Hope comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Dark Pictures: Little Hope?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is the GPU.