Some people who tried to play Nier: Automata this week on Steam ran into an unusual problem. The game required a new update and it was asking to take over people’s hard drives. A game that usually had an installation footprint of less than 50GB ballooned to 366GB. It’s still unclear why.
“Thanks to the latest update, fresh install of the game is now whooping 366GB,” read one angry review on Steam from someone with over 100 hours played of the sci-fi action-RPG. “Why? Because each DLC from YoRHa Edition is now the same size as the main game is. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.”
Another wrote, “Like, can you leave perfectly functional games alone and add a “Language pack DLC” ??? Repair your mistakes.” A third was more succinct: “366gb for 2b’s big butt I guess.”
Steam版『NieR:Automata』の最新アップデート適用後、インストール時に想定を超えるストレージ容量が必要と表示される事象を確認しております。
現在、原因を調査し、対応を進めております。
ご不便をおかけしており、申し訳ございません。…— NieR公式PRアカウント (@NieR_JPN) November 6, 2026
You’d think this error might be straightforward for Square Enix to address, but last night it posted on X that it was still investigating the cause. “We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause,” it wrote. “As a temporary workaround, you can download the main game by unchecking the DLC from Steam’s ‘Properties’ → ‘DLC.’”
The good news is that someone didn’t sneak in over 300GB of malware into the game’s latest update files. Was this human error or someone having too much fun token maxxing in the localization offices? Who can say. If you were in the middle of playing the DLC, well, you can either pause your journey or buy a new SSD. “Now I just need to delete 90% of my computer to install this,” wrote one fan.