Blood of Steel: PC requirements and the PC you need

About Blood of Steel

Blood of Steel is a large-scale online battle game set in an age of swords, spears and shields, from YC Games. You join huge battles involving thousands of fighters, using a directional system that lets you attack from four directions and organising troops into formations to beat the other side. It is played online against other players, alone or alongside friends. It is free to play, with in-game purchases. The makers recommend a GTX 650 Ti or HD 7850 and 16 GB of memory, so any of our gaming PCs handles it easily.

What Blood of Steel needs

In plain words: to play at all it needs almost any graphics, even the graphics built into the processor, and to play it well the makers suggest basic graphics: built-in graphics on a modern processor, or an old entry-level card, with 16GB of memory.

A low-spec PC or a high-spec PC?

This is a light game: almost any of our gaming PCs will run it comfortably at high settings.

On a PC that only just meets the minimum, the game will start and play, but on low settings: simpler shadows and textures, shorter view distances and fewer frames each second, so fast moments can feel less smooth. A 1080p screen is the sensible match.

On a PC that meets or beats the recommended spec, you can turn the settings up: sharper textures, proper shadows and lighting, more detail in the distance, and a smoother picture. A stronger PC also lets you use a sharper 1440p or high-refresh screen.

Questions about Blood of Steel on PC

How we match: we compare the graphics card and the memory in each PC with the makers' spec, because those decide most of how a game runs. For very new or demanding games, ask us and we will check the processor too. More help: graphics cards explained, how much RAM, which screen.