Can I Run The Shore?
Released in 2021, The Shore is an action adventure game built by Ares Dragonis. Publishing duties went to Dragonis Games. The game supports a single player campaign. It carries 13 achievements. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. 14 languages are covered by the store listing. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. With more than 1 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | intel core i5 4400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X / Intel Core i7-7600K |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1660 Super 6GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB SSD |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
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Setting and environment
The Shore places its action in a Lovecraftian setting, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and The Shore has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. There are 16 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why The Shore is demanding
Demand in The Shore is ordinary. The publisher has Nvidia GTX 1660 Super in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The Shore needs 64 bit Windows. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so The Shore at the floor and The Shore at the recommended tier are not the same experience. The install is small at roughly 15 GB, on an SSD. System memory expectations are modest at 12 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Shore?
The Shore leans on the processor more than the graphics card, its minimum CPU, a intel core i5 4400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600, is what most builds trip over. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, not a top-end GPU.
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 Shore'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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Can my PC run The Shore?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Shore?
The minimum requirements are CPU: intel core i5 4400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600; GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Shore need?
The Shore needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Shore?
The RTX 3060 runs The Shore comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Shore?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Shore is the GPU.