For the best experience, you need an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X/Core i5-8400, GeForce RTX 3080/Radeon RX 7900 XT and 16 GB of RAM, once again, not all that demanding, given most of those parts are well over a generation old. Then again, the game was originally designed to run on a PlayStation 5, which uses a mix of Zen 2 and RDNA 2 hardware, so these modest requirements are to be expected. Lastly, Stellar Blade on PC supports the entire suite of DualSense features (wired mode only).
While keyboard and mouse are supported, Stellar Blade is better experienced with a controller, given its Souls-like combat. Sony hasn’t mentioned if a PlayStation account is required to play the game, but it will presumably be optional because of the recent backlash it received over the decision. Lastly, the game ships with Denuvo, a famously hated piece of DRM software that is known to cause a plethora of issues.
