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Memory-aware PC picks

Best games for 8GB RAM PCs

Find games that are more realistic for a PC with 8GB RAM and check where memory could become a bottleneck before you install.

Best matches

6

Playable picks

12

Upgrade-sensitive

5

Listed requirements

102

This page focuses on whether 8GB RAM is enough for the games in PRIMVO's requirements database. Results are estimates based on published requirements and PRIMVO's hardware scoring, not guaranteed FPS numbers.

Best matches

Games that appear to fit this hardware profile most comfortably based on listed minimum and recommended requirements.

6 picks
Strong matchScore 100/100

Lost Ark

Explore seven vast, varied continents and the seas between them to find vibrant cultures, strange and fantastical beasts, and all the unexp...

Minimum

100/100

Recommended

0/100

PlayableScore 81/100

DayZ

What once used to be a mod for the Arma 3 became a standalone title with the same name. DayZ is an open world survival game, which is based...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

81/100

PlayableScore 81/100

MONOPOLY PLUS

A real living board: • A full 3D city at the center of the board lives and evolves as you play. You own a miniature world where each neighb...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

81/100

PlayableScore 81/100

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 (also known as Biohazard 5 in Japan) is the third-person shooter with elements of a survivor-horror game. This is the fifth...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

81/100

PlayableScore 81/100

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

The gameplay of the game is based on intense strategic battles between the Navigator and the defenders in a limited space. Locations in the...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

81/100

PlayableScore 81/100

Tom Clancy’s The Division

Tom Clancy’s The Division is an action shooter in a third-person perspective with role-playing elements. The game includes both single and...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

81/100

Playable with settings

Games that may be realistic on this profile, especially with sensible graphics settings or modest compromises.

12 picks
PlayableScore 81/100

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is a science fiction game loosely based on the role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020. ###Setting The game is set in the year 2077...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

55/100

Watch: RAM / VRAM
PlayableScore 81/100

Dwarf Fortress

Prepare for the deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that has ever been created. Not just generated geometry -- a whole simulated...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

65/100

Watch: GPU / RAM / SSD
PlayableScore 81/100

NBA 2K26

NBA 2K26 Leave No Doubt EditionThis edition includes virtual currency, MyTEAM content, MyCAREER content, and more:135,000 VCSeason 1 Pro Pa...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

25/100

Watch: GPU / RAM
PlayableScore 81/100

Path of Exile 2

Path of Exile 2 is a new seven-act storyline that is available alongside the original Path of Exile 1 campaign. ... Path of Exile 2 retains...

Minimum

81/100

Recommended

18/100

Watch: GPU / RAM
PlayableScore 79/100

Apex Legends

Conquer with character in Apex Legends, a free-to-play* Battle Royale shooter where legendary characters with powerful abilities team up to...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

77/100

Watch: GPU / RAM / SSD
PlayableScore 79/100

Baldur's Gate III

Gather your party, and return to the Forgotten Realms in a tale of fellowship and betrayal, sacrifice and survival, and the lure of absolut...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

57/100

Watch: RAM
PlayableScore 79/100

Battlefield 2042

Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise. Adapt and overcome in a n...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

18/100

Watch: GPU / RAM
PlayableScore 79/100

BioShock Infinite

The third game in the series, Bioshock takes the story of the underwater confinement within the lost city of Rapture and takes it in the sk...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

79/100

Watch: GPU / RAM / SSD
PlayableScore 79/100

Black Desert Online

Pre-Existing UsersThe Steam version of Black Desert Online requires the purchase of the game from Steam as well as the creation of a new Bl...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

79/100

Watch: GPU / RAM / SSD
PlayableScore 79/100

Call of Duty: Vanguard

Rise on every front: Dogfight over the Pacific, airdrop over France, defend Stalingrad with a sniper’s precision and blast through enemies...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

52/100

Watch: RAM / Free storage
PlayableScore 79/100

Cities: Skylines II

Ultimate Edition Cities: Skylines II: Ultimate Edition gives you access to the base game, as well as the Expansion Pass. This includes the...

Minimum

79/100

Recommended

18/100

Watch: GPU / RAM
PlayableScore 79/100

Cloud Chamber

Cloud Chamber is a Massively Multiplayer story game. Explore a mysterious 3D database. Investigate and discuss story fragments with other p...

Minimum

51/100

Recommended

79/100

Watch: GPU / RAM / SSD

Upgrade-sensitive picks

Games that may run into GPU, RAM, VRAM, CPU, or storage limits on this profile. Use these as upgrade signals, not promises.

5 picks
Upgrade-sensitiveScore 59/100

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an action RPG, a part of The Elder Scrolls series, which follows TES: Morrowind and proceeds TES: Skyrim....

Minimum

59/100

Recommended

0/100

Watch: GPU / RAM / SSD
Upgrade-sensitiveScore 57/100

Elden Ring

The Golden Order has been broken. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord...

Minimum

57/100

Recommended

38/100

Watch: GPU / RAM
Upgrade-sensitiveScore 57/100

Genshin Impact

You have arrived in Teyvat — a fantasy world where the seven elements flow and converge. In the distant past, the Archons granted mortals u...

Minimum

51/100

Recommended

57/100

Watch: RAM
Upgrade-sensitiveScore 57/100

Palworld

Q. What is this game about? A. Palworld is a game about living a slow life with mysterious creatures "Pal" or throwing yourself into life-a...

Minimum

57/100

Recommended

0/100

Watch: RAM
Upgrade-sensitiveScore 57/100

Raji: An Ancient Epic

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action adventure game set in ancient India. Raji, a young girl is chosen by the gods, to stand against the demo...

Minimum

51/100

Recommended

57/100

Watch: RAM

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