Nier Automata Patch Square Enix Steam
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.
Another, responding to the idea that the massive size was because the core install now included every one of the game’s optional language packs, 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.'”
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