Steam taking up too much GB? Do i have duplicate installs? Games all over the place

[Just Terrible Gameplay]

I'm really confused atm, i've got 2.1TB of storage, steam/games taking up 1TB, 465GB is taken up by others, 286GB is currently free which leaves me with 1.7TB wheres my other 400GB? (i have rounded a few numbers)

I'm looking around to find out what is taking up so much GB and i believe its steam and Origin but i'm not sure what exactly. On my F drive i have a 'games' folder which is 230 GB of steam games and an 'other' folder which is 474 GB of steam games. Why is it not in the same folder?

I've got duplicate games on different hard drives but they're not the same GB and when i check the GB of games in Steam they're different to when i look at them in my hard drives.

Also in one of my folders i have BF1 and BF4 which is 124GB yet only BF1 is installed and it isnt 124GB, what do?

I'm really confused as to what is taking up so much GB in all my hard drives :(

[Zukabazuka]

Well if you have duplicates just delete the folder that is not in use. Them not being the same size could most likely have to do with updates the game has received or something else added to the game.

If you modded games those mod files will always be left in the folder since any uninstaller will leave those files alone. Steam has sometimes problem where it forgets game you have installed, it hasn't happen to me so far but most likely happen to you.

[Jamebonds1]

It is normal. Games take so much space now. Not Steam itself.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Clean up your OS, leave your game clients alone. If you have empty or unused gane folders, delete them.

What to clean up?

Run Disk Cleanup via the run as admin option, tick all boxes, click OK. Do this one about once per month.

Bring up System Restore, wipe all of that out, when it's done make a new restore point of your own.

Get rid of the Hibernation file that hogs space.
CMD (run as Admin)
Powercfg -H OFF
Press enter. Then restart Windows.

Load up Steam Client run the run as admin option. Go to Settings, delete temp download cache and temp web cache; as these both hog space over time. Do this one about once per month.

[_I_]

check steam library game properties, disk tab will show usage and what drive library its on