What is the biggest game on your PC and how do you decide when to delete games?

[Pifanjr]

Basically the question stated in this article:

What's the biggest game on your computer, and is it really worth the space?

What's eating up your SSD, and does it really deserves all those gigabytes when you could have more photos of your pets?

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What is the biggest game on your PC and what is your deletion protocol?

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I'm not at my PC right now, so I can't check, but I have Baldur's Gate 3 installed which is around 150GB and I don't think there's anything significantly bigger installed.

As for deleting games, I usually uninstall games as soon as I'm done with them. However, I have a large collection of games installed for my kid and my wife cycles through multiple games as well, so I still have a ton permanently installed anyway.

I also frequently abandon games halfway through, thinking I'll get back to them eventually. These games usually get deleted when I try to figure out what to play next and realise it's not any of those games.

 

[BeardyHat]

My Deck is the nearest thing to me at the moment and thathas GTA V at 115gb on there.

Sounds like you and I have similar habits. I always delete things once I finish them, but abandoned stuff does tend to linger longer.

 

[February's Ghost]

Currently it's BG3 which is showing 147gb of used space.

Currently, though, I have 1.6 terabytes of games installed on my game dedicated drive. I've allotted plenty of drive space to gaming so I can essentially install the games I want to play now and not really care that Allan Wake 2's 106gbs are sitting there unused.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Yea its Baldurs Gate 3 for me as well. Second is Total War Warhammer 3.

Currently sitting at 107 games installed according to GOG Galaxy which seems to be syncing correctly at the moment across all the launchers. If it was possible I would love to keep my entire library installed. Been considering replacing my 1TB system drive with a 4TB model as they arent as crazily priced as they were which would make me happy for about 3 months until I filled it up again.

I dont have a rule, basically I have 3 drives for games, and when I want to install something new I go through and uninstall the biggest things I feel least likely to want to play again soon.

 

[February's Ghost]

which seems to be syncing correctly at the moment across all the launchers

Mine refuse to sync with anything but Epic. I really wish GOG would get its **** together with these other launchers for some real functionality.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Mine refuse to sync with anything but Epic. I really wish GOG would get its **** together with these other launchers for some real functionality.

It wasnt working with MS/Xbox the other day but is now, and I havent played anything on Epic since Alan Wake 2 last year and thats showing stats there OK FWIW. Steam generally seems to work in there for me, its the others that take time to catch up or dont work. That might not mean much because I dont actively use it unless I want to check my full library which isnt that often.

I dont think they are officially supporting plug ins to other launchers anymore, but sometimes it works so I assume community member are patching it, not sure.

 

[ZedClampet]

I'm not sure how big TWW3 and Baldur's Gate 3 are, but I just uninstalled them yesterday because I needed that external drive for something else. Right now, my largest install is Forza Motorsport at 127 GB.

Most of my games don't have endings, which makes it difficult to decide when to delete them. If I do finish a game, I uninstall it immediately. For all these other games I'm hanging onto, I usually just let them sit on my drives until I randomly decide to go through them and uninstall things. That doesn't include the C drive which I don't put games on. I currently have 6 TB of drive space beyond my C drive and 256 games installed and a little over 2 TB of free space. I would be much more picky about uninstalling things if I didn't have so much drive space, but as it is, it's just not a big deal to me.

The reason I had so much drive space doesn't exist anymore, but it's still nice to have it. I only mention this because people are weird and there's sure to be someone who is angry that I have a lot of drive space.

 

[Alm]

On Steam it's Call of Duty Black Ops 6 at 129.12GB

Though I have Star Wars Jedi Survivor installed on EA Play and I can't see the size but recommended is 155GB storage.

 

[isleepinabed]

It's Disco Elysium at 9.59Gb on GOG and R-Type Final 2 at 15.56Gb on Steam.
So, nothing too big individually but I currently have 31 individual games installed.

I usually delete them when I don't want to play them anymore in the foreseeable future. I have installed what I intend to play shortly...

So, I rarely have the disks full but I do install and reinstall a lot. I used to use an external drive to save them on and I think all the deleting and reinstalling screwed it up.

 

[Zloth]

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a little bigger than Baldur's Gate 3. Hmmm, and Distant Worlds 2 is taking up 1.4GB of space - interesting, because I uninstalled it. Looks like the shaders got left behind.

I delete when I finish and get all the screenshots safely tucked away. (I sometimes need to start up a game I finished to help me remember some character or location name.) If I abandon a game, it takes longer for me to acknowledge that I'm not coming back.

I do have a very few games (X4, The Last Remnant, Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children) with 'honorary installs.' I liked them so much that it doesn't feel right to uninstall them.

It has all gotten pretty irrelevant, though. I've got a LOT of space so there's hardly a need to keep trimming the fat. I've had uncapped, gigabit download speeds for years, so downloading is a minor inconvenience.

 

[February's Ghost]

Though I have Star Wars Jedi Survivor installed on EA Play and I can't see the size but recommended is 155GB storage.

Jedi Survivor is about 130gb install too.

 

[Johnway]

The biggest game on my machine is probably Assassins Creed: Valhalla at 100+GB. Its fairly easy as to when i uninstall a game, either i beat the game or i get bored of it. I limit myself to how many games get installed on my machine. if i have 3 or more and things get indecisive.

For the most part i play singe player games so i can follow the strategy easily. When it comes to Multiplayer games, its a little more harder, rule of thumb is one live service game or multiplayer game. In the most cases i typically get bored of multiplayer games at the 100 hour mark, especially if i'm playing the same maps, doing the same strategies like running in a hamster wheel. As a horizontal gamer grinding for rank or inconsequential loot or stats doesn't interest me.

That said Path of Exile remains on my PC for some years now and that's because each league gives something new and fresh to play and renews my interest in the game. I usually play it for a month or 2 get my rewards/burn out and do something else to refresh my gaming palette.

 

[DXCHASE]

Currently, its Destiny 2 at 142gb and then...Mortal Kombat 1 at 128? Dont know why a fighting game is so big. I had Call of Duty at around 200gb but no need to keep that much room blocked for a game i barely play.

Only real reason for deleting is if i run out of space. I might look at one and say "I wont be back to that" and delete, but i usually install and forget. I have good internet so installing isnt that much of a hassle but i rarely have enough games installed that i do run out of space.

 

[JCgames]

I have more than enough space now, storage is cheap. But I just delete games I don't play anymore if needed.

No clue how big it is, but it's probably midnight suns. Most of my bigger games are maybe 40gb, when I grab outlaws, that will be the biggest, but I'm waiting for the complete version ti be released.

 

[Colif]

I deleted almost all my Xbox Games pass games yesterday, so my answer now would be different than what it was then. The biggest now is Cities Skyline at 61gb. Before it was probably Diablo 4.

I only deleted them as well, I hadn't played any and can get Xbox games back at any time. I plan on moving the drive the games are on into another PC in a few months so would need to remove all Xbox games anyway. I won't have time to play any before then so I figured, why not.

But if I wasn't moving it, I don't bother deleting things as I normally have more than enough blank space

plenty in fact.

Last time I had a storage issue was on my PS3 when my internet speed was amazing

and downloading games would take a week or so, so I had Fallout 3 CE on my PS3 for years and just didn't want to delete it as the time to get back was too long.
Now my internet speed is fast enough that I don't think about it.