Exoborne's Playtest Wants 32GB RAM, Most PCs Fall Short

A Spec That Leaves Most Players Behind

If you have been eyeing the upcoming playtest for Exoborne, the new third-person shooter generating quiet buzz among PC gaming circles, you might want to open your system settings first. As reported by PC Gamer, the playtest lists 32GB as its recommended RAM requirement. That is not the minimum. That is the recommended spec.

Statistically speaking, there is a good chance your machine does not hit that number. Steam hardware surveys have long shown that 16GB remains the most common RAM configuration among PC gamers, meaning a significant majority of players would be running below the recommended threshold before the game even launches a proper release.

What the Numbers Actually Mean

Steam survey data is one of the more reliable windows into how real people actually build and buy their gaming PCs, and for years it has told the same basic story. Enthusiast rigs with 32GB or more exist, but they represent a smaller fraction of the overall player pool. The average gaming PC is not a top-shelf build refreshed every two years. It is something assembled or purchased a few years back, optimized for the games that were popular at the time.

That context makes a 32GB recommended spec feel notable. For a playtest, which is typically meant to cast a reasonably wide net and gather feedback from a broad sample of players, asking for double the RAM most people have installed is an unusual bar to set.

It is worth keeping in mind that recommended specs are not hard cutoffs. Players running 16GB can likely still launch and play Exoborne during the playtest. The question is what kind of experience they will have, and whether the developers will be able to collect useful performance data from hardware configurations below the recommended threshold.

Exoborne and the Shifting Cost of Entry

Exoborne is a survival extraction shooter, a genre that has been putting serious demands on PC hardware for a couple of years now. Games in this space tend to feature large, dense open environments, dynamic weather systems, and the kind of moment-to-moment simulation complexity that chews through system memory fast. A 32GB recommendation starts to make more sense in that light, even if it remains a tough ask for a large portion of the audience.

The broader conversation here is one the PC gaming community revisits every hardware generation. As developers build for higher-end configurations, the minimum viable setup creeps upward, and the players still running older hardware find themselves squeezed. That tension does not always resolve in the player’s favor.

For anyone planning to jump into the Exoborne playtest, checking your current RAM total and comparing it against those specs is a worthwhile first step. If you are at 16GB and the game runs a little rough, the system requirements will tell you exactly why.