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

  • FrederikNJS@piefed.zipEnglish
    43·
    il y a 7 jours

    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.

      • nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        il y a 6 jours

        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

        • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          1·
          il y a 6 jours

          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!

  • cattywampas@lemmy.world
    36·
    il y a 7 jours

    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

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    il y a 5 jours

    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

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      il y a 5 jours

      Leaving ten gigs on each drive. It doesnt like anything more full. But it works good where it is. Excellent warning thank you

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    18·
    il y a 7 jours

    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.

  • Somebody_Else@feddit.onlineEnglish
    17·
    il y a 7 jours

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

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      9·
      il y a 7 jours

      I give you two more to play:
      Portal Revolution
      Portal Reloaded

      You can find both in the steam store

    • Chezus9247@lemmy.world
      3·
      il y a 7 jours

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

  • FrederikNJS@piefed.zipEnglish
    161·
    il y a 7 jours

    Factorio if you like building, optimizing and automating. Game is about 5 GB.

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      il y a 6 jours

      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.

        • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          il y a 6 jours

          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

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      61·
      il y a 7 jours

      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.

  • EponymousBosh@awful.systems
    7·
    il y a 6 jours

    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.

  • Electric_Druid@lemmy.world
    9·
    il y a 7 jours

    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.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    7·
    il y a 6 jours

    Minecraft (Java Edition, the standard).

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

      • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
        3·
        il y a 6 jours

        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.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    7·
    il y a 6 jours

    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.