Can I Run The Gunk?
The Gunk is an action adventure game from Image & Form Games, released in 2022. Thunderful Publishing published it. It offers a single player campaign. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Cloud saves are enabled. Its Steam review count passes 4 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Completionists have 17 achievements to work through. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. 9 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-6100/Intel i3-3220 or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 580/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 11 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 1700/Intel i7-6700K or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 56/NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 11 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
The Gunk places its action in a science fiction setting, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and The Gunk has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The view is from a third person view.
Why The Gunk is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by The Gunk. AMD Radeon RX Vega 56/NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting The Gunk within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. The install is small at roughly 11 GB. The Gunk calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. 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 Gunk?
Older hardware holds up here: The Gunk runs on modest graphics, with AMD Radeon RX 580/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 enough to meet the minimum. Add 4 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 | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 Gunk'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 Gunk?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-6100/Intel i3-3220 or equivalent; GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher.
How much storage does The Gunk need?
The Gunk needs about 11 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Gunk?
The RTX 3060 runs The Gunk comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Gunk?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Gunk is the GPU.