Yooka and Laylee are back for a brand new adventure! Get ready for the ultimate challenge - the Impossible Lair! Capital B has created a Hivemind device and used it to enslave the toughest bees in the Royal Stingdom - the Royal Beettalion Guard! Liberate them from chapters filled with only the tastiest 2D platforming trimmings, and take on a 3D overworld that contains a wealth of puzzles, secrets and some familiar faces!
Best gaming PC for Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair in 2026
Full buyers guide →Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.
Budget
£7991080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
£1,2991440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
£1,7991440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
£3,4994K · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 4TB NVMe SSD
Official system requirements
These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Team17 on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7 SP1 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit |
| CPU | Intel Core i3-2125 or AMD A8-6600K | Intel Core i5-2550 or AMD FX-8120 |
| RAM | 6 GB | 7 GB |
| GPU | GeForce GTX 650 or Radeon HD 5770 | GeForce GTX 660 or Radeon R9 270 |
| Storage | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| DirectX | — | — |
Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.
Can your PC run Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair?
If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel Core i5-2550 and your GPU is at or above GeForce GTX 660, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.
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