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saw someone use a google drive for game downloads
If you're using google, try Google Workspace, formerly known as Gsuite. No idea if it still works, so keep this in mind. I do know that default cloud size for free, is limited. Meaning, 5GB total(aka, not many games except small indie ones) and only 1TB of access allowed a month(Adds up quick streaming data) among many other limits.
So, for example, say you want to install a small game. Let's say..
Wall World.
You'd pay 3 cents a month per GB to store it, so 6 cents(2GB game). Then you'd also pay the retrieval fee as you're playing it, so 2-5 cents per gigabyte streamed to you.
Now, say Baldur's Gate 3, a game you own. 133GB installed. That's $4 a month fee. And knowing that the game reads around 160MB's a second on average as it loads areas around you while moving, load screens etc, you'd be looking at... in 7 seconds, you'd have streamed 1GB. That's a 2-5 cent fee every 7 seconds. So 16-40 cents a minute to play. So, at the minimum, you'd have paid $10 to play a single hour, up to $24 an hour. Now, this is if your connections can handle said read speed, since most nvme drives read in the thousands MB/s.
Hence my comment of, you are kinda limited to physical drives, unless you're willing to pay the fees each month to not be free tier and have a high speed and stable connection.
There's little to no point at that rate.
Why would you want to do that? To what end?
Even then you need a physical drive to manage it in the first place.