Railborn system requirements — none have been published

Washbear Studio has not published any system requirements. Every field on the Steam page reads “TBD” — minimum and recommended alike.

That is the whole of the official answer, and it has not changed. What the studio has done is name the hardware it aims at, in two development posts from 2025. Those numbers are real and worth knowing — but they are targets, not requirements, and this page keeps the two apart.

Store page checked on 5 September 2026

What the store page actually lists

0 of 4 named fields carry a value. The table below is read from the store data itself, not retyped — if the studio fills a field in, it appears here.

FieldOSPublished valueTBD

FieldProcessorPublished valueTBD

FieldGraphicsPublished valueTBD

FieldSound CardPublished valueTBD

One line on that page does carry information: “Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system”. It is the only hardware statement the store makes, and it rules out 32-bit systems.

Which platforms are listed

PlatformWindowsListed on the storeYes

PlatformmacOSListed on the storeNo

PlatformLinuxListed on the storeNo

Windows only. No console has been announced anywhere, by anyone at the studio.

The hardware the studio says it is aiming at

Read these as development targets, not as requirements.

A performance target is what a studio tries to hit while building. A system requirement is what it commits to once the game ships. Washbear Studio has published the first and not the second — and the difference is not pedantic: a target can move, and these were set before a year of new systems went into the game.

Date16 July 2025Video memoryUpdate #002: Rooftop RunsWhat the studio wrote“Our target for Railborn is to run smoothly at a High graphic setting with 4 GB video RAM. We decided on this target by looking at the Steam survey”View original source

Date19 August 2025Graphics cardAmbient Occlusion - Huh?What the studio wrote“Every game should have a performance target! Our target for Railborn is a 1660 Ti for Medium settings at 60fps. […] We chose this target after consulting with the Steam hardware survey as a balance between accessibility for players and resources for us to make an awesome game. Of course, the resolution you're playing at and other factors can make it easier to play on less powerful machines.”View original source

Date18 September 2025The target, tested dailyUpdate 004: Track SwitchingWhat the studio wrote“We then automatically load up Railborn on our trusty old laptop equipped with a 1660 Ti - our minimum spec target. […] Note cells that turn red are over our threshold for our minimum spec target and that build should be investigated.”View original source

Why this page will not turn those into a spec box

It would be easy, and every other page about this game does it: take the 1660 Ti, take the 4 GB of video memory, put them in a table headed “Minimum”, and publish. The result reads like an official requirement and is not one.

Two reasons that matters here. The targets were written in July and August 2025; since then the studio has added weather, biomes, a maturity system, underground bases, co-op and a mini-map — all documented in its own posts. And the studio itself frames the second figure carefully: a 1660 Ti at medium settings, with the note that resolution and other factors change the picture.

What the targets do tell you is real, and it is the useful takeaway: the studio is building for a mid-range machine from 2019, tests every build on one daily, and says so publicly. That is a deliberate choice, not an accident.

What would change this page

One thing only: the studio filling in the fields on its own store page. Update 015 targets Early Access for summer 2027, but does not give an exact launch day. What the studio has committed to for Early Access →

The store page is under automated watch here, and the systems named above are documented one at a time from the same monthly posts. Follow the studio news feed →