Barbie Rewind hits Steam on November 12: PC requirements and Steam Deck

Barbie Rewind arrives on Steam tomorrow, November 12, from Digital Eclipse and Atari. It packs two things together: a mode for decorating Barbie’s DreamHouse through the decades and a collection of 16 classic Barbie games from 1991 through 2007. If you play on an older PC, the good news is that the requirements are very modest: a GeForce GTS 250, an Intel i5-2500 and 8 GB of RAM.

What Barbie Rewind includes

The game has a retro look with pixel art. Barbie asks you to update her DreamHouse with items drawn from 65+ years of her history:

• Three retro DreamHouse designs for the exterior facade, walls and floors. You can mix and match them from room to room.
• 250+ pieces of furniture, decor and accessories to unlock, from a classic pink vanity to a ’90s inflatable chair.
• 16 classic Barbie games, including Barbie Pet Rescue, Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race and the never-before-released Barbie: Vacation Adventure. Playing them completes quests and unlocks more items.
• A digital Lookbook with the stories behind some of her best-known DreamHouses and playsets. Ken, Teresa and Christie also stop by to ask for your design help.

Barbie Rewind PC requirements

These are the requirements from the Steam page. For now there is only a minimum:

It also requires DirectX 11. The Steam page lists Windows only: there is no Mac or Linux version on Steam.

How well does it run on your GPU?

canirun gives an S, Overkill, grade to every popular GPU we checked. That covers the GTX 1650, the Radeon RX 580 and the RTX 3060, as well as newer cards like the RTX 5080 and the Radeon RX 9070 XT. Our grades are normally measured against the recommended requirement, but Steam has not published one for this game yet. For now, the only official reference is the minimum in the table.

If your PC is modest and you want more games that ask for little, check our list of low-end PC games.

What about Steam Deck?

Valve has not verified it yet. Our spec-based estimate gives it an S, but that is only an estimate from the spec sheet, not a test on the Deck. You can follow it on the Barbie Rewind Steam Deck page.

Can your PC run Barbie Rewind?

Here is how your PC grades against Barbie Rewind’s requirements:

Game	Rec. GPU score	Rec. RAM	Min. RAM	Your PC
Barbie™ Rewind	—	—	8 GB	?

The full game page shows the grade for your exact GPU and RAM.

Sources: Barbie Rewind on Steam