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Can I Run The Medium?

The Medium is an adventure game from Bloober Team, released in 2021. Bloober Team SA published it. The game supports a single player campaign. It carries 39 achievements. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It is localised into 10 languages according to the store listing. With more than 7 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.

Developer Bloober TeamPublisher Bloober Team SARelease 2021Genre Adventure
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel® Core™ i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X
GPU@1080p NVIDIA GEFORCE® GTX 1650 Super or GTX 1060 / Radeon™ R9 390X
RAM8 GB
Storage55 GB
OSWindows 10 (64bit version only)
DirectX11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel® Core™ i5-9600 / AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X
GPU@1080p NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1660 Super / Radeon™ RX 5600XT | @4K NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 2080 or RTX 3060 Ti / Radeon™ RX 6800
RAM16 GB
Storage55 GB
OSWindows 10 (64bit version only)
DirectX12

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in a horror setting, moving through environments built to be read rather than fought through. There are 7 official screenshots to judge the look from. It is played from a third person view.

Why The Medium is demanding

The ask The Medium makes is moderate. @1080p NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super / Radeon RX 5600XT | @4K NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 or RTX 3060 Ti / Radeon RX 6800 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. The Medium needs 64 bit Windows. The Medium takes about 55 GB of disk space. The Medium calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means The Medium 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 Medium?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

The Medium targets a mainstream modern PC: @1080p NVIDIA GEFORCE® GTX 1650 Super or GTX 1060 / Radeon™ R9 390X and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to @1080p NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1660 Super / Radeon™ RX 5600XT | @4K NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 2080 or RTX 3060 Ti / Radeon™ RX 6800 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pRuns well1.31x
1440pBelow the bar0.74x
4KBelow the bar0.33x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns well
GTX 1060 LaptopPlayable
GTX 1650 4 GBPlayable
GTX 1650 LaptopPlayable
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against The Medium'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 Medium?

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What are the minimum system requirements for The Medium?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X; GPU: @1080p NVIDIA GEFORCE® GTX 1650 Super or GTX 1060 / Radeon™ R9 390X; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64bit version only).

How much storage does The Medium need?

The Medium needs about 55 GB of available storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run The Medium?

The RTX 3060 runs The Medium comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for The Medium?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Medium is the GPU.