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NC and Big Fire Games just opened the Steam page for Cinder City, and someone in their QA department needs to sit down with the marketing team, because those system requirements are borderline unhinged.
| Specs | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10/11 (64-bit) | Windows 10/11 (64-bit) |
| CPU | Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | Intel Core i7-12700 / AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
| RAM | 32 GB | 64 GB |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB VRAM) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8GB VRAM) |
| DirectX | Version 12 | Version 12 |
| Network | Broadband Internet connection | Broadband Internet connection |
| Storage | 50 GB | 50 GB |
| Sound Card | DirectX compatible / onboard chipset | DirectX compatible / onboard chipset |
We’re talking 32GB of RAM as the minimum. Not recommended. Minimum. The recommended spec doubles that to a genuinely absurd 64GB. That’s not “buy a gaming PC” territory anymore; that’s “reconsider your relationship with video games” territory. I can’t think of another title that’s asked for this much memory just to run comfortably.
Cinder City Developer Preview
Underneath the numbers, though, there’s an actual game trying to get noticed. Cinder City is the cinematic sci-fi third-person shooter, set in a dystopian alternate-history Seoul overrun by mutants and criminal gangs. You play Seven, one of the Cinder Knights holding the line, and the story kicks off with a mission in Samseong-dong to save his daughter Zoe before spiralling into the city’s buried secrets.
The bigger swing is the structure NC and Big Fire Games keep circling back to: a narrative shooter campaign bolted onto a large-scale multiplayer PvE world, where cooperative content and other players reshape the battlefield as you go. Ambitious, sure. Ambitious enough to need 64GB of RAM though? I’m not convinced.
No release window on the store page yet, though NC was reportedly still eyeing a launch sometime this year. At these specs, plenty of players will need a hardware upgrade before they even hit install.
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