Can I Run The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan?
Supermassive Games released The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan in 2019. It is an adventure game, published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Its Steam review count passes 9 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Critics scored it 75 on Metacritic. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. There are 30 achievements to chase. The game ships for Windows alone. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It is localised into 13 languages according to the store listing. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand.
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 7870 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game takes place in a horror setting. Play is presented from a third person view. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Disk footprint is light, near 80 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan scales hard with the hardware you give it. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan?
Older hardware holds up here: The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 7870 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: Man of Medan 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: Man of Medan'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: Man of Medan?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD FX-8350; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 7870; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan need?
The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan needs about 80 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan?
The RTX 3060 runs The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is the GPU.