Supermassive Games has posted the PC specs for Directive 8020, which is slated to arrive on May 12, 2026.
The move to Unreal Engine 5 has pushed up the hardware bar. For a smooth experience the studio points to GPUs at about the RTX 3070 Ti or RX 6800 level — esp. if you expect detailed, real-time lighting and ray-trace effects. Unlike some of their earlier work, this entry pairs a branching narrative with full-fledged, real-time stealth systems; those stealth mechanics lean heavily on lighting calculations, so the CPU/GPU load is nontrivial.
The install size stays surprisingly small: only 40 GB.
You play astronaut Brianna Young, trying to save the crew of the ship Cassiopeia from an alien mimic that can take the form of any ally. It’s the sort of setup that makes every mundane interaction suddenly suspicious.