Can I Run The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me?
Released in 2022, The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me is an adventure game built by Supermassive Games. Publishing duties went to Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. There are 30 achievements to chase. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. Over 3 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Steam gates it behind an age check at 18. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. 11 languages are covered by the store listing.
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 |
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Setting and environment
The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through hostile territory. 9 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me is demanding
The ask The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me 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: The Devil in Me at the floor and The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me at the recommended tier are not the same experience. The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me needs only 12 GB of RAM. Disk footprint is light, near 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: The Devil in Me?
Older hardware holds up here: The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me 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: The Devil in Me 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: The Devil in Me'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: The Devil in Me?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me?
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: The Devil in Me need?
The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me needs about 65 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me?
The RTX 3060 runs The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me is the GPU.