Short Life system requirements state that you will need at least 2 GB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 3 GB of RAM in your system. To play Short Life you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core 2 Duo T5500. Whereas, an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 is recommended in order to run it. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 90 MB of free disk space available. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS graphics card you can play the game. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT.
Short Life will run on PC system with Windows 7 and upwards.