Can I Run Yonder: The Cloud Catcher?
Released in 2017, Yonder: The Cloud Catcher is an adventure indie game built by Prideful Sloth. The game supports a single player campaign. Its Metacritic score stands at 70. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Its 9 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam lists support for 10 languages. Completionists have 38 achievements to work through. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-4320 @ 4 GHz or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 / AMD R9 270X (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7- 3770@ 3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4 GHz or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX970/GTX 1060 or AMD R9 390/RX480 (4GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a gentle, brightly drawn world, moving through one continuous open world. The view is from a third person view. There are 13 official screenshots to judge the look from. That openness is what costs performance. Yonder: The Cloud Catcher has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Yonder: The Cloud Catcher is demanding
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX970/GTX 1060 or AMD R9 390/RX480 ( target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Yonder: The Cloud Catcher. The install is small at roughly 4 GB. Yonder: The Cloud Catcher needs 64 bit Windows. At 4 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Yonder: The Cloud Catcher. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Yonder: The Cloud Catcher?
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 / AMD R9 270X (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX970/GTX 1060 or AMD R9 390/RX480 (4GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) 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 | 2.18x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.23x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.54x |
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 Yonder: The Cloud Catcher'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 Yonder: The Cloud Catcher?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Yonder: The Cloud Catcher?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-4320 @ 4 GHz or equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 / AMD R9 270X (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better); 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only).
How much storage does Yonder: The Cloud Catcher need?
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher needs about 4 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Yonder: The Cloud Catcher?
The RTX 3060 runs Yonder: The Cloud Catcher comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Yonder: The Cloud Catcher?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Yonder: The Cloud Catcher is the GPU.