System requirements

The listed minimums are old hardware, which is why the launch week performance problems were a surprise to people running much better machines.

Checked 2026-11-09 · Game version 9 November 2026 build

Every figure below is checked against Pequi studios announcements or Steam's own endpoints on 2026-11-09.

The listed minimums are old hardware, which made launch week's performance problems especially confusing: people running machines far above the minimum were getting frame rates that suggested the game was broken, and it was.

What the minimum says

That is the complete list from the store page, with no recommended specification published alongside it.

2006 hardware, 2026 game

A Core 2 Duo E6400 is a 2006 processor. A GTX 460 is a 2010 card. A 500MB install is almost nothing by modern standards. The stated minimums describe a machine that would have been mid-range fifteen years ago.

The consequence is that the minimum is not a useful predictor of performance. It was not useful at launch either: the first week's frame rate problems affected configurations well above the listed spec, and the studio's own explanation was that a feature added hours before launch was dragging performance across hardware configurations, not that particular machines were below spec.

Checking whether a machine can run this? Almost anything from the last decade will, on the 8 November build or later. The 500MB install means the game is not loading large assets; the performance problem was a code path, not a texture budget.

Deck: no rating, working pad

Here is the specific situation, because it is easy to misreport.

Steam's compatibility endpoint for app 1686230 returns a resolved category of 0, which means no rating has been assigned. The game is neither Verified nor Playable on Deck as far as Valve's system is concerned. Anyone telling you it has a Deck rating is telling you something Valve has not said.

What is documented is that Deck controller support was fixed on 6 November. The launch announcement for that patch leads with it: "Steam Deck: Controller support is now working properly." So the input layer works on Deck, and the official compatibility badge does not exist yet.

That combination is common for small releases: the game runs, the controller works, and nobody has run Valve's verification pass. Treat Deck as untested officially and functional in practice, and expect the badge to appear or not appear without warning.

Controllers

The store page lists full controller support, plus specific DualShock and DualSense support entries. Three separate patches touched controller behaviour in the first week, which is a good sign for input quality: 5 November fixed a bug where the first boss's interaction button did not work when using a controller, 7 November fixed fuel being added to the campfire and stove while removing food from the kitchen with a controller, and 9 November added the ability to unequip tools from the hotbar using a gamepad.

A controller interface that feels wrong is worth a build check before blaming the setup: 9 November is the current one.

No recommended spec

No recommended specification, no frame rate targets, no resolution or quality preset list, and no macOS or Linux build. The store page lists Windows only. No Steam Deck rating exists, and no benchmark is published.

Minimum is not a frame rate

A minimum spec is a promise that the game will start and be playable at some settings the developer chose. Not a promise about frame rate, and on this release not even a reliable promise about stability: the 8 November post states plainly that a feature added hours before launch was dragging performance across hardware, a category of problem minimum specs cannot describe.

That last row is the practical trap. The listed minimum is a GTX 460, a card from 2010. A machine built to that spec will run the game, and nothing in the published material says how well. The one performance statement the studio has made about specific hardware is the general claim in the 8 November post that machines which previously struggled should now be smoother.

What 500 MB tells you

Half a gigabyte is small enough that it changes what kind of game this is. A 500 MB install means the art is pixel work rather than scanned textures, and it means the loading problems a bigger game would have are not physical. When the launch build stuttered, it was not streaming assets off a disk.

The third row is an inference and worth flagging as one. The launch announcement describes line-by-line text review in ten languages and says nothing about voice work, and a 500 MB install has no room for ten dubbed audio tracks. Whether the game has any voiced audio is not documented anywhere, so treat that row as arithmetic rather than as a claim.

Three checks before buying

Three things, in order.

Open the store page and confirm the minimums against your machine. Then check the current patch level: if the game is on 9 November or later, the launch-week performance problem is behind you. Then decide about the Deck separately, because the badge does not exist and the controller support does.

A laptop with integrated graphics measures against the GTX 460 minimum, and recent integrated chips are usually above it. Any discrete card from the last eight years is well past the listed requirement; the remaining variable is the patch level.