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Can I Run The Swords of Ditto?

The Swords of Ditto is an action adventure game from onebitbeyond, released in 2018. Devolver Digital published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. 10 languages are covered by the store listing. It carries 20 achievements. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. Metacritic places it at 74. Its 8 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. With more than 1 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.

Developer onebitbeyondPublisher Devolver DigitalRelease 2018Genre Action, Adventure, Indie
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel Core i5-3210M (2 * 2500) or equivalent
GPUIntel HD 4000
RAM4 GB
Storage1 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 9.0c

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel Pentium G3250 (2 * 3200) or AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core (4 * 2500) or equivalent
GPUGeForce GTX 460 (1024 MB) or Radeon HD 6850 (1024 MB)
RAM8 GB
Storage1 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 9.0c

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. The view is in two dimensions. Because the game assembles its spaces as it goes, the cost lands on the CPU in bursts rather than steadily on the GPU. There are 16 official screenshots to judge the look from.

Why The Swords of Ditto is demanding

The Swords of Ditto makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated GeForce GTX 460 ( target. The Swords of Ditto takes about 1 GB of disk space. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9.0. The Swords of Ditto needs only 8 GB of RAM.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run The Swords of Ditto?

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

The Swords of Ditto is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000, 4 GB RAM, about 1 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: RAM

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable48.57x
1440pComfortable27.32x
4KComfortable12.14x

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run The Swords of Ditto?

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What are the minimum system requirements for The Swords of Ditto?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3210M (2 * 2500) or equivalent; GPU: Intel HD 4000; 4 GB RAM.

How much storage does The Swords of Ditto need?

The Swords of Ditto needs about 1 GB of HDD storage.

What is the bottleneck for The Swords of Ditto?

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