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RetroArch is an open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications

RetroArch is a free to play, retro and software game developed and published by Libretro.
Released on May 27th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 19 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 7,847 reviews of which 7,039 were positive and 808 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.


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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS: Microsoft Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 4 and up (CPU with SSE2 instructions required)
  • Memory: 32 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Any compliant OpenGL 2.x or Direct3D11 GPU. For shaders to work properly, should support at least Shader Model 2.0.
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Additional Notes: For OpenGL: Intel HD 2K/3K GPUs on Windows 10 will have to fall back to an OpenGL 1.1 driver.
MacOS
  • OS: macOS High Sierra (10.13) or later
  • Processor: Intel or ARM architecture
  • Graphics: Any compatible Metal2 GPU. Metal 2 is required to use either the Vulkan or Metal video driver.
Linux
  • OS: Linux-based distro
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 4 and up (CPU with SSE2 instructions required)
  • Memory: 32 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Any compliant OpenGL 2.x or Direct3D11 GPU. For shaders to work properly, should support at least Shader Model 2.0.
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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Steam reviews 13 April 2025 05:52

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RetroArch
8.7
7,039
808
Online players
620
Developer
Libretro
Publisher
Libretro
Release 27 May 2022
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