Nier: Automata players on PC got a surprise Thursday: a small update pushed the game's Steam install size from roughly 50GB to a staggering 366GB, per reports from GamesRadar+ and VGC.

The mismatch is hard to miss. Square Enix's store listing still recommends 50GB of space to install the 2017 action RPG, meaning anyone grabbing the game right now will need more than seven times the advertised footprint. VGC's advice was blunt: don't try to download Nier: Automata at the moment.

A 316GB jump from a minor patch points to something broken in the build or its packaging rather than any legitimate content addition — misconfigured depots and uncompressed assets have caused similar blowups on Steam before. Neither report cites an official explanation from Square Enix yet.

Until a corrected build ships, the practical guidance is simple: existing players should hold off on updating if they can, and prospective buyers should wait before committing a third of a terabyte to a game that, by every right, should fit on a modest SSD partition.