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
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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.
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.
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!
I haven’t tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.
Ohh that looks fun, thank you!
Factorio if you like building, optimizing and automating. Game is about 5 GB.
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.
Same… and I feel like I’m missing out ;-;
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
That game really needs a warning 1500 hours and counting.
I’m at 1690 hours myself and really hasn’t delved too much into mods yet…
Brotato!
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
Donut county
I love Donut County, but it’s a little short. Can easily be completed in around 4 hours.
Interestingly we are at this point that memory/chip prices are so high that we are asking for game suggestions based on storage requirements.
Pixel dungeon. Shoutout [email protected]
Yeah i can’t get into this one. I feel like i must have played a different version
There’s a ton of different variations on Pixel Dungeon. Shattered PD is probably the most fully-developed.
It plays better on mobile
Recently played the hell out of SparkLite - $3 on sale right now, 1.5G of space required.
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.
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.
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
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.
If you havent yet played Portal / Portal 2, together they are about 20 Gigs, and are both very good, genre and generation defining games.
I give you two more to play:
Portal Revolution
Portal ReloadedYou 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.
Both Ori games are great on the deck and combined are around 20 GB.
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.
Fair, I had problems with the same part.
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








