Can I Run Yars Rising?
WayForward released Yars Rising in 2024. It is an action adventure game, published by Atari. It offers a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. It is localised into 6 languages according to the store listing. 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. It carries 201 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. There are 33 achievements to chase.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-7500 (3.40 GHz) or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770 or AMD Radeon™ RX 570 or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 - 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7-7700K (4.20 GHz) or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 - 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Yars Rising places its action in a gentle, brightly drawn world, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. It is played from a side on view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Yars Rising has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. 7 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Yars Rising is demanding
Yars Rising sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Yars Rising takes about 3 GB of disk space. Yars Rising needs 64 bit Windows. DirectX 12 is named, so Yars Rising expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Yars Rising at the floor and Yars Rising at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Yars Rising 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 Yars Rising?
Yars Rising is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770 or AMD Radeon™ RX 570 or better, 8 GB RAM, about 3 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 | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| 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 Yars Rising'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 Yars Rising?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-7500 (3.40 GHz) or better; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770 or AMD Radeon™ RX 570 or better; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 - 64bit.
How much storage does Yars Rising need?
Yars Rising needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Yars Rising?
The RTX 3060 runs Yars Rising comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Yars Rising?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Yars Rising is the GPU.