I was shocked to find out that Balatro was like 80 MB to download. You don't need million-poly models and 8k textures to make an really good game. Granted, yeah it's a 2D game, but it's a beautifully-presented one.

I redownloaded Stardew Valley last night and was amazed to find it's still less than a Gigabyte.

I know it's not the same as a hyperrealistic 3D game, but I'm still amazed at how much stuff he keeps adding, but it hasn't even scratched a GB.

Valheim, a massive open world filled with interesting monsters and beautiful stylistic graphics is 1gb

Downloaded factorio yesterday at a wopping ~1.5 gig

What game is this?

Have noticed western devs typically can't reduce file size for shit. Something like killing floor 2 is 97 gigs and elden ring (last i looked) was under 50

Game's size depends on many factors. Besides devs' laziness or the abundance of inique assets and dupes, I had a fun ride with Vermintide 2 whose devs were able to cut game's size from 100gb+ to 60gb+ at once because they added all incrimental updates as additional archives and also prefered to have all assets for one level in one place even if they are shared, so it grew out of proportion over the years before they decided to cause a complete asset restructurement and dublicate hunt before the major update. It made players redownload big chunks of the game but resulted in a way less terrifying size to those players they wanted to start it or return into.

When games get this big it merely ensures that they get uninstalled the moment I lose a bit of interest.

Sekiro is only 13GB and I think that's very neat

What's that FPS someone made to be as small of a file as possible? It's like a Quake rip-off, but the game runs as a single executable and is small enough to barely take up the space of a floppy disk (like just a few kilobytes)?

8gb is probably a bit too small for most photorealistic style games at maximum settings, but maybe they should introduce optional games asset support to steam. No point downloading the full resolution textures if you're playing on low texture settings.

There are plenty of 8GB games, we need to lower our expectations.

you don't get 4k with matching textures and pre-lit levels the size of texas for free.

Go back to 8GB and 3-4 year releases

What 8GB. Some of the best games ever fit in a floppy disk (a real life save icon for the gen z people around here).

I miss the days when you could choose to stream most of the large assets directly from the CD, because taking up 600MB on your hard drive was too much to ask for.

Animal Well is like, 40Mb

No point in playing that game lmao

This is how I felt with bg3. Like I know there's a lot of little assets for every bookshelf and basket type you have to click on incessantly, but...150GB for a third person isometric? Is every book ready for rendering at 8k or something?

Reject modernity, Return to Zork

ARK?

They do. I am currently playing CDDA with a folder at 987MB, most of that is the save folder at 523MB. You should stop buying games that are so large if you don't like it.

Now give it to me in 3.5" floppy disks.

Whilst the performance needs improving, Last Epoch is something like 20gb

Go compare that to an ARPG like PoE2 or D4...