2027 PC Game Requirements: Every Published Spec
19 games due in 2027 or announced for PC have already published system requirements, out of the 50 upcoming titles we track. Together they set a clear bar: 16GB is the most common minimum amount of memory, the middle minimum graphics card is roughly Intel Arc A580 class, and 10 of the 14 recommended specs that state memory ask for 16GB.
Below is every published spec side by side, followed by the details that are easy to miss — the games that need Windows 11, the ones that insist on an SSD, and how much space they take.
Graphics cards: minimum and recommended
Most demanding first, ranked by the minimum card each publisher names. The wording is the publisher's.
| Game | Due | Minimum GPU | Recommended GPU |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAW: Genesis | Not announced | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB |
| Lords of the Fallen II | Not announced | NVIDIA RTX-2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 | NVIDIA RTX-3080 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT |
| El Paso, Elsewhere 2 | Not announced | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 or equivalent | Not stated |
| Fable | Feb 23, 2027 | AMD Radeon RX 6600 / Nvidia RTX 5050 / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 / Intel A580 | AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT/ NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060TI |
| SPINE - This is Gun Fu | 2027 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 or equivalent | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 or equivalent |
| Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis | Feb 12, 2027 | GTX 1070 (8GB) / RTX 2060 Super || AMD RX 5700 | RTX 3080 || AMD RX 6800 XT |
| Chrono Odyssey | Not announced | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti / Radeon RX 6600 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 / Radeon RX 6800 XT |
| The Talos Principle 3 | Not announced | 8 GB VRAM; Radeon RX 5700, GeForce GTX 1070, Intel Arc A580 | 12+ GB VRAM; Radeon RX 7700XT, GeForce RTX 3080, Intel Arc B580 |
| Guild Wars 3 | Not announced | RTX 2060 / Radeon RX 5700 / Intel Arc A580 | Not stated |
| Star Trek: Shadow Frontier | Not announced | Nvidia GTX 1660 | Not stated |
| Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance | 2027 | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660(VRAM 6GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX 5500 XT(VRAM 8GB) | NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2060 Super(VRAM 8GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX 6600(VRAM 8GB) |
| Sagas of Lumin | Feb 4, 2027 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD RADEON RX 5700 XT / INTEL Arc A750 |
| Sea of Remnants | 2027 | GTX 1060（6GB）/RX 480（8GB） | RTX 3070 Ti/RX 6800XT |
| PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant | 2027 | Nvidia GTX 1070 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB | Nvidia GTX 2080 8 GB / AMD Radeon RX 5700 8 GB |
| HUMANKIND 2 | 2027 | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 (4 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 5500 XT (8 GB) | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 (8 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 5700 XT (8 GB) |
| Outward 2 | 2027 | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Pony Island 2: Panda Circus | Apr 27, 2027 | GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM) | GeForce GTX 1050 2048 VRAM; Radeon RX 460 4096 VRAM |
| Holstin | Not announced | 3GB VRAM | Not stated |
| Tides of Annihilation | Not announced | Not stated | Not stated |
The spread is wide. SAW: Genesis names NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 as its minimum — the highest floor of any game here — while Pony Island 2: Panda Circus starts at NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. At the top of the recommended column, Lords of the Fallen II asks for AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.
2 games with published requirements do not name a graphics card at all yet, and 5 name no recommended card.
Memory
8 ask for 16GB, 3 ask for 12GB, 5 ask for 8GB, 1 asks for 6GB and 2 ask for 4GB as a minimum. For the recommended tier, 16GB is close to universal; Chrono Odyssey and Sea of Remnants recommend 32GB. The full breakdown is in how much RAM and storage 2027 games need.
Storage and SSDs
15 games state an install size, from 3GB to 135GB, with a median of 30GB. Fable, SAW: Genesis and The Talos Principle 3 mention an SSD in their requirements.
Windows 11 only
SAW: Genesis, Star Trek: Shadow Frontier and Lords of the Fallen II list Windows 11 and no earlier version. Every other game here that names an operating system still accepts Windows 10.
Check your own PC
Every game above has its own page with the full publisher table, and the checker compares your graphics card, processor and memory against it directly. Start from the full list of 2027 releases, or see which graphics cards clear these specs.
Where these numbers come from
Every requirement quoted here is the publisher's own, read from the game's Steam store page on 12 September 2026. Placeholder entries — "TBD", "TBA", "Coming soon" — are treated as not published, never as a spec. Where we compare a graphics card or processor against a requirement, we use the performance index described in our editorial standards. We re-read every listing monthly, and this article is regenerated from that data each time, so its figures move when the publishers' do.