Can I Run The Evil Within 2?
Tango Gameworks released The Evil Within 2 in 2017. It is an action adventure game, published by Bethesda Softworks. It offers a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. 12 languages are covered by the store listing. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It carries 51 achievements. Critics scored it 80 on Metacritic. Over 19 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Its 9 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400 / AMD FX-8320 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7970 3GB or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4770 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX 480 8GB or better |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB HDD |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The Evil Within 2 places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 20 storefront screenshots of these environments. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and The Evil Within 2 can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The view is from a third person view.
Why The Evil Within 2 is demanding
The graphics requirement for The Evil Within 2 is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GTX 1060 is enough, so The Evil Within 2 runs on machines never bought for gaming. The install is small at roughly 40 GB. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Evil Within 2?
The Evil Within 2 targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7970 3GB or better and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX 480 8GB or better for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
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 Evil Within 2'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Evil Within 2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 / AMD FX-8320 or better; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7970 3GB or better; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Evil Within 2 need?
The Evil Within 2 needs about 40 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Evil Within 2?
The RTX 3060 runs The Evil Within 2 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Evil Within 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Evil Within 2 is the GPU.