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

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    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·
      5 days ago

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

  • Somebody_Else@feddit.onlineEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

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

    • Chezus9247@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

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

  • EponymousBosh@awful.systems
    7·
    6 days ago

    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·
    7 days ago

    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·
    7 days ago

    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·
        6 days ago

        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·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    Lot of my picks have already been mentioned but if you like story-rich point and clicks:
    The rusty lake series (~1GB each)
    Strange Horticulture (1GB)

    Or very chill adventure:
    Slime rancher (1GB)

    Rouge-lite/rogue-like:
    Death Road to Canada (60MB)
    Binding of Isaac (449 MB) - this is my all time favourite game and I’m surprised to see the base game is still under $20.

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Im surprised you’re the only one thats mentioned isaac. Fun game. Check out cult of the lamb if you haven’t already

  • M137@lemmy.today
    7·
    7 days ago

    Gotta plug my friends games, not that they’re unknown, just the first things that come to mind and they’re all small to small-ish in size (I think they might even be under 20gb for all combined).

    Hotline Miami
    Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
    Raft
    Sea Salt
    Post Void
    Keep Driving

  • lyth@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    7 days ago

    I developed my taste in PC games before I had a graphics card, so…

    • Baba Is You, a minimalist puzzle game with a Portal’s worth of perception bending
    • Hypnospace Outlaw, a story-driven 90’s-styled computer/internet simulator with a shocking amount of good diegetic indie music. Like, more than one entire album.
    • Celeste

    I’ve already played these games to death and back so I haven’t really been playing them in the present tense

  • xytaruka@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    Im incredibly addicted to gambling rogue likes and a lot of them are quite small. Currently I’m really enjoying:

    Raccoin Balatro Clover Pit Peglin Luck be a landlord