Horizon Zero Dawn is making its way to PC in the first of a new wave of previous PlayStation exclusives that could find a new lease on life and new earnings on the PC platform. It'll bring with it all of the original game's gorgeous aesthetics, but with some improvements and upgrades, as well as all previous DLC releases. That means that the game is going to be bigger than its original PS4 run where it was often disc-bound. But not as big as we originally thought.
When the system requirements for the game were revealed at the start of July, we were told that alongside recommending at least an Intel Core i7-4770K or Ryzen 5 1500X, GTX 1060 or RX 580, and 16GB of RAM, we'd need 100GB of storage space. That's not unheard of in modern gaming, but it's not exactly a lightweight install either. Fortunately, it appears that some clever optimization has been made to the PC experience, as the now claimed install size is just over 67GB instead.
The original PlayStation install was just 48.1GB, so that's still quite a leap, but shows that with management of the files and assets that the game makes use of, it's possible to make it more efficient, even with all of the DLC and additions coming to the PC version.
Alongside slight graphical improvements and additional content, the PC version will include new ultra widescreen support, dynamic foliage, in-depth graphical controls, as well as the official Frozen Wilds expansion.
