What are the minimum system requirements for WARDOGS?

Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 1660 or AMD RX 590, 50 GB available space. Steam's stated target for this tier is 1080p Low @ 60fps (Upscaled).

What are the recommended system requirements for WARDOGS?

Windows 11 64-bit, Intel Core i7-12700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3070 or AMD RX 6700 XT, 50 GB available space. Steam's stated target for this tier is 1440p Medium @ 70fps+ (Native) or 4K Medium @ 60fps+ (Upscaled).

What frame rate does WARDOGS target?

Steam's store page states a target for each tier: 1080p Low @ 60fps (Upscaled) on the minimum parts, and 1440p Medium @ 70fps+ (Native) or 4K Medium @ 60fps+ (Upscaled) on the recommended ones. "Upscaled" means DLSS, FSR or XeSS switched on.

Hardware

Can your PC run WARDOGS?

Q: Does WARDOGS run on Linux or Steam Deck?

Not officially, and not at launch. Windows 10 and 11 are the only operating systems Steam lists. On 4 September 2026 Bulkhead said it does not support Linux, cannot commit to Proton support for the 10 September launch, and that anyone who bought the game to run it under Proton should refund. The blocker is the kernel-level anti-cheat, which had no Linux module in the September build. Steam shows no Steam Deck rating.

The specs Bulkhead has published, and a two-minute check against the parts in your machine.

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Laptop cards run a tier below their desktop name — a laptop RTX 3060 sits nearer a desktop 3050.

Best computer builds for WARDOGS

Three builds, cheapest first. All of them clear the parts Steam calls recommended rather than the ones it calls minimum, because the published minimum is a GTX 1660 and buying a six-year-old card in 2026 saves you very little to run the game badly. Treat the recommended column as the safer read anyway: these are pre-Early-Access figures for a game that has not shipped.

Budget build

1080p, high settings

The cheapest machine worth building. It still clears the parts Steam calls recommended rather than the ones it calls minimum — the published minimum is a GTX 1660, and nobody should buy a six-year-old card in 2026.

Budget build total$1,359

Mid-range build

1440p, 144 FPS

Built for the frame rate rather than the resolution. The step up from the budget build is the graphics card; the processor moves with it because frames past 120 are where a six-core starts deciding the number.

Mid-range build total$1,993

High-end build

1440p, worst case

For the scene the spec sheet does not describe: three teams converging on the same 2 x 2 km square with destruction going off. Spec sheets are written for average conditions, and that is not one.

High-end build total$2,744

Prices read from Amazon on 25 August 2026 and not updated since — check the current figure before you buy, because hardware pricing in 2026 moves faster than any page can. Totals exclude the alternative graphics card, which is an either/or rather than a second card. The small number under each price is the same relative index the checker above uses: WARDOGS wants 125 on the graphics scale and 165 on the processor scale. Every row is an Amazon affiliate link and pays this site a commission if you buy through it, at no extra cost to you.

Published requirements

Part	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10 64-bit	Windows 11 64-bit
Processor	Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500	Intel Core i7-12700K / AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Memory	16 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA GTX 1660 / AMD RX 590	NVIDIA RTX 3070 / AMD RX 6700 XT
Storage	50 GB available space	50 GB available space
Network	Broadband Internet connection	Broadband Internet connection

Verified against the Steam store page on 4 September 2026, row by row. These are the pre-Early-Access figures on the Steam page. Requirements often move during Early Access — check Steam before buying hardware.Steam store page ↗

Figures published elsewhere are out of date

Two of the aggregator pages that rank for this query disagree with Steam on storage, and they disagree with each other. Checked on 4 September 2026:

Source	Storage, minimum	Storage, recommended
Steam store page	50 GB	50 GB
vgtimes.com	30 GB	40 GB
canirunthegame.com	40 GB	40 GB

Both appear to be stale scrapes of an earlier revision of the Steam page. If you are clearing space, clear 50 GB — and treat any spec table without a verification date on it as a guess.

What Steam says it runs at

Since the beta, the Steam page prints a performance target under each column, which is the part every reprinted spec table leaves out and the part that actually tells you what the GTX 1660 buys. Read on 4 September 2026:

Tier	Parts	Steam's stated target
Minimum	NVIDIA GTX 1660 / AMD RX 590	1080p Low @ 60fps (Upscaled)
Recommended	NVIDIA RTX 3070 / AMD RX 6700 XT	1440p Medium @ 70fps+ (Native) or 4K Medium @ 60fps+ (Upscaled)

"Upscaled" is Steam's word for DLSS, FSR or XeSS switched on, so the minimum tier is 60 fps at 1080p with an upscaler doing part of the work, not native. The recommended tier is the only one that reaches native resolution, and it does so at 1440p Medium rather than High. Two things from the beta bear on those numbers: the settings floor is low enough that near-minimum hardware ran the game, which is where the "potato settings" fairness argument came from, and the one crash class tied to hardware was the upscaler itself — see crash on launch before assuming a part is at fault.

Linux and Steam Deck

Confirmed

Windows is the only operating system on the list, and that is now official. On 4 September 2026 Bulkhead said it does not support Linux, cannot commit to Proton support for the 10 September launch, and that anyone who bought WARDOGS to run it under Proton should refund. Steam shows no Steam Deck rating. The reason is the anti-cheat: it is kernel-level, and the September build's had no Linux module, so the launcher stops before the game starts. What anti-cheat WARDOGS uses, and the statement in full →

What the numbers actually mean

16 GB of RAM is a floor, not a target

Memory is the same in both columns, which is unusual. It means 16 GB is what the game needs to function rather than what it needs to run well — there is no headroom to buy here, and going to 32 GB is not what a published spec sheet is asking you for.

The GPU gap is the real jump

Minimum to recommended is a GTX 1660 to an RTX 3070. That is a much larger step than the CPU gap, and it is where your money goes if you are upgrading one part.

Expect these to move

These are pre-Early-Access figures for a game that has not shipped, with destruction systems and 100-player matches still being tuned. Requirements published this early are an estimate from an internal build. Treat the recommended column as the safer read.

A hundred players in a small zone is the worst case

Spec sheets describe average conditions. The demanding moment in WARDOGS is three teams converging on the same 2 × 2 km square with destruction going off. If you land on minimum, that is where the frame rate goes.