Penguin Colony is out on Steam today, October 16, 2026. It is a cosmic horror game where you play as a penguin watching rival human factions lose their minds in the Antarctic, a loose re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Origame Digital developed it and Fellow Traveller published it. The listed specs are about as light as they come for a 3D game, with one oddity: the minimum asks for an i7 and a GTX 1080.
Minimum Requirements
- OS: Windows 10, 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7 (no model given)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1080
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended Requirements
- OS: 64-bit processor and operating system
- Everything else: not specified on the Steam page
What to Expect at Each Tier
The minimum looks lopsided. 4 GB of RAM and a 2 GB install suggest a small, stylized game, yet the GPU line points to a card from 2016. The developer did not name a specific i7, so “i7” here is a rough guide rather than a hard cutoff. If you have a GTX 1060 or an integrated GPU from a recent laptop, it may still run at lower settings, but nothing on the store page promises that.
The recommended tier is empty apart from the 64-bit requirement, so there is no official target for higher settings or resolution. Anything from the last five or six years with a mid-range card should be comfortable. We will revisit this page once players share real frame rates, since launch-day performance can differ a lot from a spec sheet.
The install is tiny, so storage is a non-issue and any drive will do.
Release Date, Platforms and Price
- Release date: October 16, 2026
- Platform: PC via Steam (Windows)
- Genre: Action, adventure, cosmic horror
- Price: $13.49 on Steam
- Languages: English with full audio, plus Arabic, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese text
Since the specs are vague, check the Steam page and the first user reviews before buying if your GPU sits below a GTX 1080. Steam’s refund window is there for exactly this kind of doubt.
