deinstalling games should deinstall the game

[Candarian]

i deinstalled

yu-gi-oh master duell

lately
and i still had 8+ bg on my hard drive
u should fix that pls
i dont want to check every time if the games i uninstalled are gone or not

[nullable]

Generally uninstalled games are deleted. Although there may be things like mods or save games left behind. Ultimately it's your system and you're in charge of managing the space and doing additional cleanup of user generated files.

To be clear, how did you uninstall yu-gi-oh master duel?

[MoonC A T]

Sounds like you had it installed in two locations.

[wuddih]

in case of Steam:
install = downloading files
uninstall = removing known previously downloaded files.

mentioned game is a f2p game that has an own managed client that downloads files of which Steam does not know anything about.
for Steam this game is a few hundred megabytes.

it is best practice not to delete anything that a newly "installed" program creates afterwards and Steam does follow that principle and in most of those cases where files remain, it is working data, things like save files or configurations and usually does not amount to any significant storage space being utilized.

mentioned game is a rare occurrence of which the leftover files is basically the entire game assets and the dev of the game set it up so that you just download a basic client from Steam itself, the rest comes from their own servers.

not much Steam can do here for you

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by wuddih:

mentioned game is a f2p game that has an own managed client that downloads files of which Steam does not know anything about.

This may be the culprit here.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by wuddih:

in case of Steam:
install = downloading files
uninstall = removing known previously downloaded files.

mentioned game is a f2p game that has an own managed client that downloads files of which Steam does not know anything about.
for Steam this game is a few hundred megabytes.

it is best practice not to delete anything that a newly "installed" program creates afterwards and Steam does follow that principle and in most of those cases where files remain, it is working data, things like save files or configurations and usually does not amount to any significant storage space being utilized.

mentioned game is a rare occurrence of which the leftover files is basically the entire game assets and the dev of the game set it up so that you just download a basic client from Steam itself, the rest comes from their own servers.

not much Steam can do here for you

Such games should be required to distribute the assets via Steam.