Can I Run Yoku's Island Express?
Yoku's Island Express is an adventure indie game from Villa Gorilla, released in 2018. Team17 Digital Ltd published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Its Steam review count passes 3 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Its 8 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam lists support for 9 languages. Completionists have 31 achievements to work through. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Critics scored it 84 on Metacritic. Cloud saves are enabled.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i3-2100 @ 3GHz / AMD A8-5500 @ 3.2GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GT 630 1GB / AMD Radeon 7770 1GB / Intel HD 530 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
Single source, verify with the publisher source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through an interconnected map that opens up as you gain abilities. Play is presented in two dimensions. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Yoku's Island Express is demanding
Yoku's Island Express makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated Nvidia GeForce GT 630 target. It targets DirectX 10, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. Disk footprint is light, near 3 GB. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Yoku's Island Express?
Yoku's Island Express is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GeForce GT 630 1GB / AMD Radeon 7770 1GB / Intel HD 530, 4 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 | 28.33x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 15.94x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 7.08x |
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 Yoku's Island Express'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 Yoku's Island Express?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Yoku's Island Express?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i3-2100 @ 3GHz / AMD A8-5500 @ 3.2GHz; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 630 1GB / AMD Radeon 7770 1GB / Intel HD 530; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Yoku's Island Express need?
Yoku's Island Express needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Yoku's Island Express?
The RTX 3060 runs Yoku's Island Express comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Yoku's Island Express?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Yoku's Island Express is the GPU.