Square Enix accidentally botches a Nier: Automata update, balloons required file size from 50GB to 366GB on PC

By Dom Peppiatt · Eurogamer · Friday, 6 November 2026 at 12:28 (32m ago) · Original article ↗

Yesterday, Nier: Automata received a new patch on Steam, adding more language support to the title - it can now be played with Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese options - but this new update also, somehow, inflated the file size of the game on PC from about 50GB to 366GB. D'oh! What's worse is, the update is not optional.

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