Can I Run West of Dead?
West of Dead is an action adventure game from Upstream Arcade, released in 2020. Raw Fury published it. It offers a single player campaign. Completionists have 24 achievements to work through. Its 6 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. The game ships for Windows alone. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Its Steam review count passes 1 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is localised into 13 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-4460 CPU / AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia Geforce GTX 1030 / Radeon RX 550 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-9400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3400G |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in the old west, moving through runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. It is played from an isometric view. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. Generating a fresh layout every run is processor work, so a weak CPU shows up as a pause between areas.
Why West of Dead is demanding
West of Dead is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 580 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear West of Dead. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so West of Dead at the floor and West of Dead at the recommended tier are not the same experience. West of Dead needs only 8 GB of RAM. The install is small at roughly 1 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run West of Dead?
West of Dead is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1030 / Radeon RX 550, 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: 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 | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 West of Dead'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 West of Dead?
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What are the minimum system requirements for West of Dead?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4460 CPU / AMD FX-8350; GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1030 / Radeon RX 550; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does West of Dead need?
West of Dead needs about 1 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run West of Dead?
The RTX 3060 runs West of Dead comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for West of Dead?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for West of Dead is the GPU.