I have 25GB-ish left on my steam deck. I like to save space for saves and stuff, so im looking for a game under 20.
Whats a fun small-med sized game youve been playing?
EDIT!!
Awesome suggestions so far everyone. I picked up the following games right now:
Farcry Primal
Mina the Hollower
Animal Well
Streets of Rogue
Deep Rock Galactic
Heart of the Machine
Inscryption
Moonrise Fall
Slay the Spire
I'm saving this post for future use
Already installed:)
Give it a shot with the mods after you finish the game (+dlc) too, a lot of them are great! I tried the archipelago randomizer today along with ship enhancements on max random difficulty, it is a wild time.
Also wanted to rec a game like Lorn's Lure, White Knuckle, or Idols of Ash (fair warning, I picked up the last one just yesterday, but it is pretty high rated and seems like Lorn's Lure which I had a great time with). Those are unrelated to Outer Wilds, but didn't want to leave multiple comments
I've looked at mods for Outer wilds before. I did like the VO mod. Most of the actors are decent enough to work.
Ill look up those other games, thanks!
Balatro is tiny, like 150 MB tiny. And endlessly playable. If you like poker and/or rogue likes it's pound for pound one of the best deals out there both money and memory wise
Already addicted lol
Balatro and Slay The Spire 2 are roguelikes that have a lot of replayability.
Trackmania, you can give it a shot with Nations Forever it's free on steam. Turbo/TM2 are graphically improved versions of it, 2020 is the newest one that most people play but has a lot of its features locked behind a yearly subscription. Go with the previous ones if offline play is a must.
Baba Is You is a real brain burner puzzle game that makes you think out of the box a lot of time.
I give you two more to play:
Portal Revolution
Portal Reloaded
You can find both in the steam store
Also Postal 1 and 2. Great games. First one is kinda a twinstick shooter, second one more a do what you want game.
Factorio if you like building, optimizing and automating. Game is about 5 GB.
I'm at 1690 hours myself and really hasn't delved too much into mods yet...
Even with the added gamepad controls i cant get into this game. I also played satisfactory and ran into the same roadblock. Im just not tuned to create machins like that.
I just got sucked into Planet Crafter for like a week. So i figured im primed for satisfactory. But no, the loop is just over my head in the "build machines" genre
Genre/type of game you like most?
This is asking for suggestions. I have 58+ games on my deck. Im just looking for that last piece of the puzzle before i lose internet again.
Streets Of rogue
60 seconds! Reatomized
Sleeping dogs
Hand of fate 2
Far cry 3
Dragon age origins
Cult of the lamb
Fallout: new vegas
Of those I've played new vegas, dragon age, sleeping dogs, and just got cult of the lamb last week! I'll have to look into streets of rogue
Its a fun little game for sure there is a sequel coming out too.
Animal Well 35Mb
Looks great. Sold
That's a trip, i love it.
I suck in the over world area though.
Edit: fuck it. Im reinstalling it!
Is the leshi section random? That's the only way i could see it having replayability. (But i never beat the full game, so idk)
Man I can only get past the default missions in Celeste, im not doing that to myself right now lol
(Great game)
My indie action platformer No More Mages is in early access (with a free demo) if you feel like taking a shot at a truly unknown game! More being added soon.
This is what im talking about, real indie games baby. Love it
Ohh that looks fun, thank you!
I enjoy unique story driven games. Two favourites are:
Honorary mention to Not tonight. It's very papers-inspired, but unique enough.
Have you played soma? Great story
I developed my taste in PC games before I had a graphics card, so...
I've already played these games to death and back so I haven't really been playing them in the present tense
Gotta plug my friends games, not that they're unknown, just the first things that come to mind and they're all small to small-ish in size (I think they might even be under 20gb for all combined).
Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Raft
Sea Salt
Post Void
Keep Driving
I do have raft. But it's a little wonky with a gamepad so i rarely load it up
Haven't seen anyone mention Slay the Spire yet. The original is under 600MB and the sequel (early-access) is 2GB. They're both good! The first one is maybe a little easier, if you've never played them.
I do have the first one. Thats a great idea
I just played cubic Odyssey for my block game fix. I do have Minecraft on my switch already.
I'd recommend installing Prism launcher and checking out some modpacks. Vault Hunters in particular builds its own game on top of Minecraft. I think my largest instance has been ~5GB including the save.
Lot of my picks have already been mentioned but if you like story-rich point and clicks:
The rusty lake series (~1GB each)
Strange Horticulture (1GB)
Or very chill adventure:
Slime rancher (1GB)
Rouge-lite/rogue-like:
Death Road to Canada (60MB)
Binding of Isaac (449 MB) - this is my all time favourite game and I'm surprised to see the base game is still under $20.
Im surprised you're the only one thats mentioned isaac. Fun game. Check out cult of the lamb if you haven't already
Isnt that a multiplayer game?
Yes, but DRG and its pseudo-sequel Rogue Core are still like 6gb combined. Very lightweight for what they are. I have like 1700 hours in DRG. Great game. Like most great co-op oriented games, you can still get forty to a couple hundred hours of solo play before it gets too repetitive.
Cool i stayed away because i figured it was a co op only game. Thanks!
I like the Ace Attorney trilogies; I'm playing through the Apollo Justice trilogy right now and thats about 19gb. Perfect on the steam deck.
Stardew Valley is under 1gb and is also perfect on Steam Deck. Or Core Keeper is only 1.1gb, for a more crafty less RPG vibe.
Also worth remembering of course, you can use SD cards to expand the space on your Steam Deck, and swap SD cards out as much as you want. So if you have intermittent internet as you imply elsewhere here, loading up games onto SD cards can be very helpful.
Uh excuse me, Stardew is like 10gb
with mods.
But yeah I actually don't have an sd card yet. Just my external and the deck itself. 500gb oled
Ok, even with mods, 10gb? Woah!
I'm playing stardew with a few mods and it's 750mb on Linux via steam. I'm genuinely interested in what mods you're adding to get it to 10gb?
I was being hyperbolic:)
I have a pretty small mod list. Mostly animated items, sd expanded, earthly recolor, reflections, visable fish, etc. and most importantly: Automate
I've tried to get into DF, but it's too esoteric for even me. I thought rimworld would prepare me, but that's child's play compared to figuring out DF
I'm going to go in a different, but important direction than everyone else: don't.
SSD's are constantly moving bits of data around to balance the amount of read/write each sector deals with, since that is what degrades the components.
The downside is that the swapping also counts as read/write cycles. Most of the time this is fine, because the SSD is doing relatively little data swapping compared to what it's optimizing.
This goes away when your drive is more than 90% full. Then your drive become one of those missing tile puzzles, and it starts shuffling lots of data around constantly to get things in their optimal place. This leads to the swaps drastically increasing the read/write cycles and killing the drive early.
If you really need to have a bunch of games saved on your Steam Deck, you're better off getting an SD card and using that for additional storage. While it's slower to load, it's not that much slower, and it's not noticable for smaller games
Leaving ten gigs on each drive. It doesnt like anything more full. But it works good where it is. Excellent warning thank you
I have my emulators all set up :)
Okay great! I recommend any of the Legend of Zelda series, Tony Hawk games (I like the RPG feel of Underground and Underground 2), Super Mario World, Banjo-Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing, the Mega Man Battle Network series.
We are on the second quest in diddy kong. That game is a lot of fun. Gotta hit those zippers baby.
I have retroarch set up with nes thru n64 games, and gb/a titles. That has all the final fantasys and 200 other games.
Then seperate emus for playstation, ps2, and gamecube. I only have about 5-4 games each just because of install space. It's easy to go overboard on these games. Symphony of the night, ff tactics, rival schools, xenogears, gean turismo 4, shadow of the Colossus, re4, sky oddyssey, tiger woods 10, robot alchamic drive, Michigan report from hell, eternal darkness, fzero gx, metal gear silid twin snakes, super monkey ball, etc
And then i have "the trinity". Seperate installs of Metroid prime remastered, super mario bro remastered, and all the mainline zeldas up to twilight princess.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/a_hat_in_time
A Hat in Time, its a fairly small ~10GB game that plays like Mario 64 and its so gosh darn cute. <3
The newer Call of Duty games are >256gb
Jesus. Do they compress anything? I wonder how much of that is music and vo tracks.
They really want people to only play that one game, don't they. There no room for anything else to install
I was curious so i looked. I only have around 15 out of 60 games that are over 20gb. Not too bad.
Then there's xcom2, sitting at 80+ gigs
I've been enjoying Age of Empires 1 lately. Or Slay if you like puzzle games. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is also great for that. I dunno, there's so many options. Wanna be anymore specific about the type of game you're looking for? It seems a bit silly to mention nearly every game ever made
Brotato!
cult of the lamb and dave the diver are two of my go tos. would recommend!
one note tho: if you notice your deck acting slower, consider unintstalling some games. SSD performance tanks as it nears capacity. it's best to leave about 20% free. I personally don't always follow that, but when it starts acting slow thats my first bet.
I have both games. Diver is ok. Lamb i havent played much but i like it.
Yeah i try to keep space available. So far so good on transfer speeds. The only game ive had struggle with being on an external drive has been buldars gate 3. So thats on the internal, along with the emulators.
Solitaire
I love it
I recommend the Windows 3.1 version, it's like 500Kb
Actually to run it on wine you need a 32bit .exe, so go for the Windows NT 3.51 version
I already have Balatro lol
Far cry primal.
This looks good. The only FC game i played was the very first one.
Im in the middle of installing primal as I type. I'm stoked to play it. I'll keep an eye on fc2 for the future
I have a friend that's on that game 24/7
Celeste, HK, HK:silksong, hyperlightdrifter, titan souls, crypt of the necrodancer, journey, gris
You can even download 3-4 games from this they are rly smol
I bought Sikksong day one and was with other people in forums learning new areas and tech in the beginning. That was a lot of fun.
I have sixty something games installed. Space is the only concern right now.
I have been playing Time Snatcher Handy recently, a roguelike centered around a time-stop mechanic, which only uses 44 MB. It is pretty good. Going through my steam library from the lowest up, here are the others i would recommend, stopping at one GB, because most of my games are under 20 GB and i tend to be relatively selective with what games i get so i consider most of them good also:
Casually recommending DDLC💀
Good suggestions. I do have undertale, but I'll have to check out the other ones. Thanks
I have Ori. I loved it until all you did was launch between points it just wasn't the platformer i want it to be.
Tbh, I think the first one is way better than the second. The second had some cool puzzle ideas, but it lost a lot of it's charm and individuality when it tried to be more like Hollow Knight
Terraria is just north of 10 MB, and it's still (?!) only $10. That's $1 per megabyte!
Are you sure? Steam says it will need 800mb for me, and thats on Linux so probably with Proton. I'm seeing 200mb searching online for an average install?
While it's certainly a pixel graphic game, it does have a lot of sprites and I can't see how it'd be 10mb? Still, 200mb is nothing in this day and age.
I got the 10 MB figure from the game properties screen on Steam. Perhaps that's just world and player files, or whatever's synced with the cloud. Anyway, it's a very small footprint for a very nice game.
Ostriv was under a gig last I checked. Incredible accomplishment. Beautiful little city/village builder based in Ukraine.
Abiotic factor
10gb, half life themed survival game. Extremely solid. The combat itself isn't too crazy, I think you could pull it off on steamdeck
Throw in a 1TB SD card and load it with ROMs. Install your emulators of choice.
I described my emulation setup in an earlier comment
Pixel dungeon. Shoutout !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
Yeah i can't get into this one. I feel like i must have played a different version
It plays better on mobile
That makes sense. I never play games on my phone.
There's a ton of different variations on Pixel Dungeon. Shattered PD is probably the most fully-developed.
Rimworld with mods?
Or maybe Age of Wonders 4.
Already have rimworld installed and set up :)
I’d highly recommend AoW4 if you like Civilization, then. It’s straight up better than Civ, in my humble opinion, and has excellent controller support.
I have Old World for my 4X fix. Along with X4
But does it fill you "Mad fantasy Xcom-battles-in-4X-fix?"
Just sayin'
I’ll check my pc when I’m at home, Valheim is crazy small like 1 or 2 gigs I think cult of the lamb and dead cells are under 20
I’ll add more when I’m actually looking at my library
Valheim is a mainstay in my library. I just got lamb recently. Im interested in your other suggestions too
Totally forgot about this thread after work, whoops, but now In the MB territory we have
Horsey Game a goofy horse breeder game thats very normal
Carrion what I can only describe as reverse horror where you are the monster. I liked the game took me a little under 6 hours to beat it, there are some collectibles but the game felt kinda like a one and done Castle crahser honestly no introduction needed, i sunk a good chunk of time into the xbox 360 version in middle school (coming full circle playing it again when im getting my 4 year degree)
Fields of Mistria i have like 20 min in this game but its very much inspired by stardew but with more magic (from what i read) and like a 90s sailor moon artstyle. Very much the black sheep in my library as like 99% of my games are action
In the 1 to 5 gig range we got dome keeper a hybrid of digging holes and tower defense, recently picked it up for the multiplayer update again. ZI like this one its pretty fun
atomicrops another hybrid game and this one DEFINITLY was made and fueled by illegal substances because its an adventure, farming, tower defense, bullet hell, rougelike where you can get married. By day you explore to gather seeds and upgrades and by night you defend your farm from hungry critters trying to kill you and your crops
noita wizard death, i will not elaborate. Games got a ton to discover, and ive scratched the surface in things ive found even after beating the game
Ive mentioned it before but dead cells i looooove this game and for me it kinda set the bar for rouge like. Without spoilers ive beat the game several times on my switch got on pc a bit ago where i have 250 hours, great deck game, but you do have to follow this guide from reddit to make your saves avaliable offline. Cus FOR SOME REASON the online and offline saves are seperate, but the guide does a good job giving you a step by step on how to do that and if my technophobic ass can do it im sure you can
drg ROCK AND STOOOONE. If yournot familar an objective based hoard shooter with tons of build varierty (im at 100 hours and still have much to unlock). Though i havent gotten the out of game mod launcher (mint) working on my deck so i might just use the ingame one.
10 gigs all i have worth mentioning is anno mutonaium a cyberpunk ish game (more like cyberpunk inspired fantasy) game, i havent beat it and between two plkaythroughs now and like 2022/23 i have 10 hours but so far im liking the side scrolling combat.
Getting really up there now is V rising at 17 gigs, a top down vampire survial game, with castle building and progression is based on bosses. Honestly I love this game but it does require an active internet conenction as even in single player you are connected to a server sooooo maybe not the best for the deck. But that aside the survival mechanic is blood which is super easy to get, draining an npc fills it full, gives you buffs based on the purity/quality, and later you can have prisoners to keep taping blood from that rare 99/100% quality dude you found.
at 21 gigs jump space is becoming one of my favorite games since the open beta tests and its a combo of ship combat andon foot fps combat. It is in early access so this numbers likely to go up. Currently we have augments (player buffs) two soon to be three ships, the map used to be cult of the lamb style but now its like that but circular so you can choose the length while in the mission. The summer update is adding rng stat boosts to guns and ships components to make exploring wirth it, Currently you rob a corvette or find a ship part in a container then you have it unlocked and once you pgrade its done, this new update is planning to fix that and allow saved guns. I can go on and on about this game i just love it so much. So i can give the full info dump about this game if you so desire
An honestly more a tool but lossless scaling if you dont mind some visual artifacts. On my dying 30something nvidia laptop I could use a 1.3x frame multiplier, get skyrim up to 90 fps with no fiddling, and with a decky plugin i still use for my steam deck use a 2x frame multiplier on any game, so pretty helpful
I have Caves. Streets of rogue has been mentioned, so you're in good company. I'll have to check out the other two. Thanks
Looks like it's a pain on steam deck. Thats a drag
You're not the first person to mention that game recently though. Seems it's well liked
I just started playing Elementallis. It's a Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past style action adventure. I'm enjoying it. It weighs in at just a hair over 1 GB.
Should i get galactic or survivor for offline?
Edit: nvm i see. Survivor is a spin off. Galactic seems fun, i just played the intro mission. Thumbs up
There's a solo mode for each mossion. So that works
I love Balatro. Friend tried to get me into clover pit but i bounced right off it
I love Skald Against the black priory, and I've also started The wandering Village. Both well under that limit!
Oh i did want to try wandering village. Good call
Recently played the hell out of SparkLite - $3 on sale right now, 1.5G of space required.
Bubsy 4D is only like 3gb. It should do well on a Deck, too, but there were some reports of insanely bad performance for some people even on beefy rigs that should handle it no problem. It has a demo, tho.
It's surprising what the deck can handle
It has a performance preset for the steam deck and with that it runs quite well. The battery just might not last that long in my experience
i'd grab a lot of old game roms for emulator. nes/snes/gba/mame stuff are tiny in filesize. there are tons of gems in nds/psp too. maybe gc/wii/3ds stuff too, but they're significantly larger.
See another reply i made earlier, i described how i have my emulators set up.
Thumbs up rom-brother
Is rimworld on steamdeck? If it is the base game is a couple hundred mb, even with all the dlc it's less than 1gb.
With mods my rimworld install is 2gb. Brb gotta finish my killbox
I was going to suggest Rimworld and Factorio. Both are easily under 2GB, and will provide thousands of potential play-hours.
They’re both on my “they somehow delete time” list. I boot up Factorio at like 8PM on a Friday evening, and then the coffee maker is making bubbling noises on Saturday morning.
If you can spare an extra gig, Valheim has been my recent timesink. I recommend a few QoL mods though. Vanilla is a little extreme on the... immersion.
Yup, it's a mainstay in my library!
Would need a lot of control tweaking, both from Steam input and in game controls, but it looks like Mindustry might be less than a gig of storage. At least the free version you can get from either itch or github is.
Seems those versions are currently slightly less than 100mb for current non bleeding edge releases. I found the folder for my installed Steam version and it says it's nearly 160mb, so there's that. Didn't realize it was such a small game, but it's fun. Much better if you have a mouse and keyboard rather than just touch controls, coming from someone who started off playing it on mobile.
Only $9.99USD ( IDK what that would be in other currency ) on Steam to get steam supported things like workshop or seemless multiplayer, but if you are like me and only play single player campaign, the free versions are just as fine.
Buckshot roulette is like 1GB. It's basically just a game about figuring out probabilities but its really fun and has a lot of strategy to think about. It also only costs like $2 which is a bonus
Listing off what I remember currently having on my deck:
The first two are inspired by wario land 4. So they are more frenetic. The rest are pretty chill games. If I remember correctly they should all fit in 20 gigs
gah. your just short of no mans sky. which is just under 28. if you don't have retro arch I would throw that on. next to no space and you can put all sorts of old game roms on that also take next to no space. granted you have to install the roms in desktop mode.
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Outer Wilds is 8GB, and the best puzzle/mystery game I have ever played. The less you know about the game up front, the better.
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