Surprisingly small(file size) modern games.

[CountAntonio]

Games are getting bigger with stuff like Warzone passing the 200 GB mark. It's a big problem and an often annoying one. I purchased Deep Rock Galactic on Steam yesterday and was both delighted and surprised that the game was only 1.8 GB. Yes it's models have a low poly look and the levels are procedurally generated cave interiors bu it is such a good looking game with some of these cave systems being huge. especially in the space station. I'm actually still blown away that is is such a small game. A screenshot taken from the discord below.

What other modern games have surprised you with their file size being so small?

 

[Deleted member 47654]

Sekiro, arond 16 GB iirc

 

[MGPanda]

Isn't No Man's Sky around 5-7GB or something like that? That's absolutely amazing, even if you consider the fact that most stuff is procedural.

 

[SuikerBrood]

Minecraft Dungeons is only 2.7GB on PC. I was pleasantly surprised by that.

 

[chandoog]

It's not new at all, but Skyrim's original size of 3.3 GB ONLY on the 360 blew my mind even back in the day.

 

[Oregano]

Super Smash Bros Ultimate is under 16GB despite the size of the soundtrack.

 

[Dinskugga]

Monster Hunter World, Resident Evil 2 Remake

 

[Sheng Long]

Arcsys fighting games are usually smaller, maybe 7-8 gb or so.

 

[Tovarisc]

The Witcher 3 sitting on ~40GB with both expansions and all free DLC installed is pretty impressive to me with all content it has.

 

[antitrop]

DOOM Eternal's size being significantly smaller than DOOM 2016 was quite a pleasant surprise to me.

 

[Tovarisc]

DOOM Eternal's size being significantly smaller than DOOM 2016 was quite a pleasant surprise to me.

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Benefit of throwing megatexture system into trashbin.

 

[0451]

Maybe I'm misremembering this but Final Fantasy XIV with every expansion up to Shadowbringers was just under 40GB on my hard drive.

 

[DJ_Lae]

They're older now and maybe not hugely detailed, but Euro and American Truck Simulator being under 5GB and 4GB is still a little surprising.

Though maybe it's more that a lot of games are just bloated, whether they're unoptimized or just have too much redundant data. Something like Vermintide 2, for example, probably doesn't need to be nearly 90GB. Or Killing Floor 2 over 60GB.

 

[jml]

Nintendo first party games in general

 

[Just That Simple]

Crash Trilogy on Switch is like 16GB if I recall. Compared to PS4 where IIRC it's nearer 40GB that's crazy.

 

[manustany]

Polybius. It's not a huge game but 170MB are magic.

 

[RoboPlato]

Dreams and all of the updates are only 9.29gb and it can stream level data almost instantly because the levels people make take up hardly any space.

 

[Deleted member 63122]

Nintendo are the masters of compression.

 

[Acquiescence]

For a game stuffed with so much content, Dreams has a puny file size. I love it.

 

[Rhaknar]

The Touryst on Switch is like 200megs and looks gorgeous

 

[thisismadness]

I remember being surprised when vanilla Witcher 3 was ~30GB... I had gotten use to seeing all the big AAA games being 50+ by then.

 

[lazygecko]

Even games that look like they ought to be relatively small these days end up surprisingly large relative to their scope, since the entire way asset storage/distribution is done these days is so absurdly rife with assets being haphazardly duplicated several times over wherever they are used in the game, as opposed to just loading it from the same global library. So that makes small games even more of a rarity.

 

[Slayven]

Warframe did some coding magic and went from 30 gbs to 16 on consoles

 

[Melody]

Monster Hunter World, Resident Evil 2 Remake

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MH is 55gb though. Doesn't seem that surprisingly small.

 

[ghibli99]

I usually expect games to be like 1GB minimum, but Terraria on Steam uses less than 300MB. I think it might be even less on consoles.

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

Smash Bros Ultimate being smaller in file size than Smash Bros Wii U is absolute fucking witchcraft!

 

[Moon Parade]

I was definitely suprised when I realized that Dragon Quest Builders was only about 1gb, at least on PS4.

 

[Alex840]

Almost all of Nintendo's games are under 8GB, it's insane.

Only BotW, Smash and Xenoblade 2 come to mind as being larger.

 

[jotun?]

Just Cause 2 is only 5GB

 

[ZeroXZee]

Smash Bros Ultimate being smaller in file size than Smash Bros Wii U is absolute fucking witchcraft!

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That's probably the benefit of not using optical data anymore, Smash WiiU filesize should be a bit bloated with dupe data for faster seek times/loading.

 

[skeezx]

DOOM Eternal's size being significantly smaller than DOOM 2016 was quite a pleasant surprise to me.

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haven't kept tabs on Eternal's size but this is good to know. doom 16 is one of those games i want to have installed at all times but it's like yeesh, yeah no

 

[Zelda]

Dark Souls Remastered is only like 7 GB, and Dark Souls 3 with both DLCs is only 25 GB. Insane to me with how much content is in those games.

 

[Quade]

Deep Rock Galactic is less than 2 GB

 

[amnesties]

games from japanese studios are weirdly small

i downloaded metal gear solid v the other day and it was only about 25gb? i was 100% sure it would be a +45gb download

then you have from software games. those are usually around the 10 - 20gb range which always makes me scratch my head 🤔

wasn't monster hunter world smallish as well?

 

[iag]

The Touryst on Switch is 246MB.

 

[Aurora]

Crash Trilogy on Switch is like 16GB if I recall. Compared to PS4 where IIRC it's nearer 40GB that's crazy.

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N Sane Trilogy is 23.32 GB on PS4, and 5.2 GB on Switch, which is still pretty good compression, mind.

Super Mario 3D World being only 1.6GB is pretty crazy even amongst Nintendo games.

 

[supernormal]

Fast RMX on the switch is like 800mb

 

[EssBeeVee]

Most of Nintendo games are very small I guess given the storage. they have voodoo going on

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

PS4:
Dreams is just under 8 GB
The Surge is 9.99 GB and Sekiro at 16.84 GB.
No Man's Sky being 11.8 GB.

PC:
American Truck Sim is under 4GB and Euro Truck Sim 2 is under 5GB.

 

[Okabe]

Switch games as a whole. Got about 30 installed and my 400 GB as card still has like 200 gigs free

On my computer it's ...delete to make space if I want to install something and that's with 3 TB storage.

 

[devSin]

Isn't No Man's Sky around 5-7GB or something like that? That's absolutely amazing, even if you consider the fact that most stuff is procedural.

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The original release was less than 2GB.

 

[Vito]

REmake 2 and 3 are less than 25GB, it's insane.

 

[RockmanBN]

That's probably the benefit of not using optical data anymore, Smash WiiU filesize should be a bit bloated with dupe data for faster seek times/loading.

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Smash 4 had every trailer included with the game. Smash Ultimate not having any helps save space so they could fit it on a cheaper cartridge.

 

[Deleted member 42484]

The Touryst on Switch is like 200megs and looks gorgeous

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Came to post this. Insanely small size and insanely fast load times.

 

[The Deleter]

Most of Nintendo's games could have small file sizes presumably due to the lower fidelity of their assets, but Mario Kart 8, one of the best looking games on PS3-tier tech, comes in at a whopping 6.7 GBs, where most games of the PS3 generation were around 30 to 50 GBs each.

They may be behind on HD game development, but when they do figure it out, it's probably going to be as well built and compressed as everything else they've made.

 

[Deleted member 13645]

I was recently surprised when I installed Snowrunners and it was only like 7gb or something like that.

 

[Atolm]

Fast RMX is less than 1GB and The Touryst around 230mb.

 

[Soap]

Recent capcom games have been nice for this. DMC5, the re remakes and monster hunter world have all been reasonable.

 

[HOUSEJoseph]

I was coming in to say The Touryst. ResetEra hasn't let me down.

 

[Zedelima]

BOTW being 13gb always blow my mind