Can I Run The Good Life?
The Good Life is an indie role playing game from White Owls Inc., released in 2021. PLAYISM published it. It offers a single player campaign. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. With only 196 reviews on Steam, there is little community data on how it behaves across hardware. There are 42 achievements to chase. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 / Ryzen 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX960, Radeon RX 560 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows10 |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3770 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX1070 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows10 |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an investigation, moving through one continuous open world. Play is presented from a third person view. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and The Good Life can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The publisher supplies 14 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why The Good Life is demanding
The ask The Good Life makes is moderate. GeForce GTX1070 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. It targets DirectX 9.0, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. The Good Life takes about 5 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means The Good Life 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 Good Life?
The Good Life is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX960, Radeon RX 560, 8 GB RAM, about 5 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
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 well |
| 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 Good Life'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 Good Life?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 / Ryzen 3 1200; GPU: GeForce GTX960, Radeon RX 560; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows10.
How much storage does The Good Life need?
The Good Life needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Good Life?
The RTX 3060 runs The Good Life comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Good Life?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Good Life is the GPU.