Can I Run Wandering Sword?
Wandering Sword is an adventure indie game from The Swordman Studio, released in 2023. Spiral Up Games published it. It offers a single player campaign. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Over 35 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. It carries 110 achievements. Critics scored it 80 on Metacritic.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-4350 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210 |
|---|---|
| GPU | [Integrated graphics not supported]AMD Radeon™ RX 560 (4GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (4GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 7 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i5-6400 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon™ RX 580(6GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 ti (6 GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 7 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Wandering Sword structures its play around one continuous open world. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Wandering Sword can never assume the player will stop and let it load. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Wandering Sword is demanding
Wandering Sword is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Radeon RX 580( target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Wandering Sword. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Wandering Sword scales hard with the hardware you give it. The install is small at roughly 7 GB. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 6 GB. 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 Wandering Sword?
Wandering Sword is light on hardware. Its minimum, [Integrated graphics not supported]AMD Radeon™ RX 560 (4GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (4GB VRAM), 8 GB RAM, about 7 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 | Comfortable | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| 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 Wandering Sword'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 Wandering Sword?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-4350 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210; GPU: [Integrated graphics not supported]AMD Radeon™ RX 560 (4GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (4GB VRAM); 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Wandering Sword need?
Wandering Sword needs about 7 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Wandering Sword?
The RTX 3060 runs Wandering Sword comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Wandering Sword?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Wandering Sword is the GPU.