Can I Run The Isle?
The Isle is an action adventure game from Afterthought LLC, released in 2015. Afterthought LLC both developed and published it. It offers competitive multiplayer. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. With more than 107 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 3.0 GHz or faster. |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X series card or higher. |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 3.4 GHz or faster. |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit or later (64 Bit ONLY) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The Isle places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through hostile territory. There are 12 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is from a third person view.
Why The Isle is demanding
The ask The Isle makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Disk footprint is light, near 25 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so The Isle at the floor and The Isle at the recommended tier are not the same experience. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Isle?
The Isle is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X series card or higher., 8 GB RAM, about 25 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 Isle'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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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run The Isle?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Isle?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 3.0 GHz or faster.; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280X series card or higher.; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Isle need?
The Isle needs about 25 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Isle?
The RTX 3060 runs The Isle comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Isle?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Isle is the GPU.