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Can I Run Wartales?

Wartales is an adventure indie game from Shiro Games, released in 2023. Shiro Games both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. With more than 31 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It carries 235 achievements. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Steam lists support for 9 languages.

Developer Shiro GamesRelease 2023Genre Adventure, Indie, RPG
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel Core i5 2.5 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5
GPUNVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550
RAM8 GB
Storage30 GB
OSWindows 7 64bit
DirectX10

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel Core i7 2.8 GHz / AMD Ryzen 7
GPUNVidia GTX 1080 / AMD RX 5600
RAM16 GB
Storage30 GB
OSWindows 10 64bit
DirectX10

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Wartales places its action in a medieval setting, and the player works through one continuous open world. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Wartales has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.

Why Wartales is demanding

Demand in Wartales is ordinary. The publisher has NVidia GTX 1080 / AMD RX 5600 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Wartales at the floor and Wartales at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Wartales needs 64 bit Windows. Wartales expects 16 GB of system memory. Disk footprint is light, near 30 GB.

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

Can you run Wartales?

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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.

Older hardware holds up here: Wartales runs on modest graphics, with NVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550 enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pRuns well1.26x
1440pBelow the bar0.71x
4KBelow the bar0.31x

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 Wartales'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 Wartales?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Wartales?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5; GPU: NVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 64bit.

How much storage does Wartales need?

Wartales needs about 30 GB of available storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Wartales?

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

What is the bottleneck for Wartales?

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