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?
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Awesome suggestions so far everyone. I picked up the following games right now:
Farcry Primal
Far: Lone Sails (one short playthru expected)
Mina the Hollower
Animal Well
Streets of Rogue
Curse of Pirates
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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
Deep rock galactic is shockingly small
Should i get galactic or survivor for offline?
Im incredibly addicted to gambling rogue likes and a lot of them are quite small. Currently I’m really enjoying:
Raccoin Balatro Clover Pit Peglin Luck be a landlord
I love Balatro. Friend tried to get me into clover pit but i bounced right off it
Celeste, the platformer, is one of my favorites, and it’s super small.
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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:
- TIS-100 (80 MB), programming puzzle game by Zachtronics
- Islanders (150 MB), minimalist city builder
- Enter the Gungeon (346 MB), bullet-hell roguelike
- Streets of Rogue (417 MB), roguelike which emphasizes having multiple possible approaches for how to get any given objective
- Opus Magnum (493 MB), another Zachtronics programming puzzle game
- Vault of the Void (554 MB), roguelike deckbuilder (one of my most played games, especially recommended)
- Backpack Hero (616 MB), roguelike focused on maximizing adjacency bonuses on your inventory grid
- Urbek City Builder (685 MB), city builder (obviously)
- Slipways (735 MB), a game about optimizing trade routes between planets
- Cassette Beasts (1 GB), similar to Pokemon, with the main differences being that you turn into the monsters instead of summoning them, type advantage/disadvantage giving unique status effects rather than just changing damage and battles generally being 2v2 instead of 1v1
Minecraft (Java Edition, the standard).
About 0,3 GB, and needs no introduction. Endless box of fun in a tiny cross-platform package.
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
I enjoy unique story driven games. Two favourites are:
- Papers, please. <100MB
- Do not feed the monkeys. <1GB
Honorary mention to Not tonight. It’s very papers-inspired, but unique enough.
Have you played soma? Great story
Ostriv was under a gig last I checked. Incredible accomplishment. Beautiful little city/village builder based in Ukraine.
