Valor Mortis quietly slashes PC system requirements ahead of tomorrow's launch

Valor Mortis, the first-person Soulslike set in plague-ridden Napoleonic Europe, launches on October 13th — and its PC system requirements appear to have been significantly cut just before release.

The old minimum spec, listed around the time of the June demo, called for an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel Core i7-11700 on the CPU side, plus an AMD Radeon RX 6700 or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super for the GPU. The Steam page now lists an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or Intel Core i5-10600K as the minimum CPU, and an RX 5600 XT or GTX 1660 Ti as the minimum GPU — a meaningful step down that opens the game to a much wider range of budget hardware. The one trade-off: the SSD requirement crept up slightly, from 50GB to 60GB. Developer One More Level hasn't formally announced the changes, and hadn't responded to a request for confirmation at the time of writing, so these may not be the absolutely final numbers.

Valor Mortis is developed by One More Level, the Polish studio behind Ghostrunner, and published by Lyrical Games. The game blends first-person melee combat with Soulslike progression in a dark historical setting — think parries and stamina management rather than run-and-gun.

Real-world testing with a GTX 1070 — standing in for the listed minimum GPUs — paints a cautiously optimistic picture. At 1080p on Low settings with TSR upscaling at 67%, the card averaged around 41fps in demanding open-air sections, hovering mostly in the 40–50fps range. Stuttering and sudden framerate drops were still present, mirroring issues seen on a newer RTX 4060 during the full review. Players right at the minimum spec should expect a playable but rough experience, and more VRAM will likely make a noticeable difference.