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

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    Minecraft (Java Edition, the standard).

    About 0,3 GB, and needs no introduction. Endless box of fun in a tiny cross-platform package.

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        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.

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    Dwarf Fortress

    Throw money at the steam version or just got download the lazy noob pack (keyboard recomended for that one) and learn why it is the hardest game.

    Remember kids, Losing is fun!

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    I haven’t tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.

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      30 days ago

      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.

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          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

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      I love Donut County, but it’s a little short. Can easily be completed in around 4 hours.

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    Interestingly we are at this point that memory/chip prices are so high that we are asking for game suggestions based on storage requirements.

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    1 month ago

    Have you considered something like EmuDeck? 25GB is dozens if not thousands of games from older retro consoles, depending on how old you would consider.

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        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.

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          30 days ago

          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.

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    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

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      30 days ago

      Valheim is a mainstay in my library. I just got lamb recently. Im interested in your other suggestions too

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        30 days ago

        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

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    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.

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    If you havent yet played Portal / Portal 2, together they are about 20 Gigs, and are both very good, genre and generation defining games.

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      Also Postal 1 and 2. Great games. First one is kinda a twinstick shooter, second one more a do what you want game.

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      I have Ori. I loved it until all you did was launch between points it just wasn’t the platformer i want it to me.

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      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