WTF?! Cinder City, an upcoming open-world co-operative PvE game from NC (formerly NCSoft), is a first for PC gaming – and not a good one. Its Steam listing reveals that the recommended amount of system memory is a whopping 64GB, which in today's AI-driven hellscape will require selling more than just a kidney.
Games are getting bigger, more hardware-intensive, and less well-optimized. The end result is usually more high-end GPUs being required for "standard" gameplay, but Cinder City asks for just an RTX 4060 (8GB). What's unusual, however, is the staggering 64GB of RAM it recommends.
It's often a point of contention when a PC game recommends "just" 32GB of RAM. In Cinder City's case, this is the minimum requirement.
According to the latest Steam survey, only 4% of participants have 64GB in their machines. 16GB remains the most popular amount, used by 41% of participants.
Given that RTX 4060 recommendation and the fact it also asks for an Intel Core i7-12700/Ryzen 7 7800X3D, this could be a mistake, but it seems unlikely given the listing has been up for several days now.
