Can I Run Xenonauts?
Xenonauts is a role playing simulation game from Goldhawk Interactive, released in 2026. Hooded Horse published it. It offers a single player campaign. Its Steam review count passes 4 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It carries 20 achievements. Its Metacritic score stands at 82. This is current generation software, and the requirements read that way. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Steam lists support for 11 languages. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-4670K (quad-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-8320 (quad-core) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce®™ GT 750 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R7 260X (2 GB) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows® 10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-6600K (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 1600 (quad-core) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce®™ GTX 960 (4 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 570 (4 GB) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows® 10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through a board the player reads before committing. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Xenonauts is demanding
Xenonauts is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA® GeForce®™ GTX 960 ( target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Xenonauts. Xenonauts needs 64 bit Windows. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB. Xenonauts takes about 8 GB of disk space, SSD specified.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Xenonauts?
Xenonauts targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA® GeForce®™ GT 750 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R7 260X (2 GB) and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA® GeForce®™ GTX 960 (4 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 570 (4 GB) for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.83x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.59x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.71x |
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 great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Xenonauts'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 Xenonauts?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Xenonauts?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K (quad-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-8320 (quad-core); GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce®™ GT 750 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R7 260X (2 GB); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit).
How much storage does Xenonauts need?
Xenonauts needs about 8 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Xenonauts?
The RTX 3060 runs Xenonauts comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Xenonauts?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Xenonauts is the GPU.