Can I Run The Forgotten City?
The Forgotten City is an adventure indie game from Modern Storyteller, released in 2021. Dear Villagers published it. The game supports a single player campaign. With more than 10 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. It is localised into 8 languages according to the store listing. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. It carries 40 achievements. Its Metacritic score stands at 85.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 3GHz (4 Core) CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 26 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 3.2 GHz (4 Core) CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 | AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 26 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a mystery to unpick. Play is structured around spaces built for exploration. It is played from a first person view. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from. That openness is what costs performance. The Forgotten City has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why The Forgotten City is demanding
The graphics requirement for The Forgotten City is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GTX 1060 | AMD Radeon RX 580 is enough, so The Forgotten City runs on machines never bought for gaming. The Forgotten City needs 64 bit Windows. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. The install is small at roughly 26 GB, on an SSD. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means The Forgotten City scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Forgotten City?
Older hardware holds up here: The Forgotten City runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265 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
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 Forgotten City'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
Can my PC run The Forgotten City?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Forgotten City?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 3GHz (4 Core) CPU; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Forgotten City need?
The Forgotten City needs about 26 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Forgotten City?
The RTX 3060 runs The Forgotten City comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Forgotten City?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Forgotten City is the GPU.