Anyone occasionally "purge" uninstall games they haven't played?

[Paratech2008]

There are games I hope to get during the winter sale that devour hard drive space.

I decided to uninstall some games in anticipation of the sale.

I was curious if others did as well.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Back when I only had 20 games I insisted they all be installed all the time, ready to go.
Thats just not reasonable these days AND the newer games tend to be over 10x bigger than a single older game.

[Paratech2008]

I have a hard time justifying 150gb+ games when I don't play them that much.

When I got my Switch I had Mortal Kombat 11 installed just so I could play it on the Switch instead of PC/Steam.

I picked up a few other games for the same reason.

[Piston Smashed™]

Every now and then I may uninstall some games but I have plenty of storage (9 TB for games) so I rarely uninstall any, although I may move them to another drive, say to my HDD (main Steam drive) rather than keep them on my M.2 drives if I haven't played it for a while. I have about 3+ TB of games installed.

[Paratech2008]

I have a 1TB SSD and a 4TB SATA hard drive.

[Piston Smashed™]

I have the drives below, although I do want to change the 500 GB Sata drives to either 2 or 4 TB ones at some point but as they contain games for EA, Ubisoft etc there's no rush, there's plenty of space there for now.

Gigabyte 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe (Windows)
Corsair MP510 1.92TB M.2 PCIe NVMe (Games)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe (Games)
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB Sata III X2 (Games)
Western Digital 4TB Black 256mb Cache (Games)

I do have a lot of storage for my games but I never totally fill my drives up with games and like to have plenty of free space on a drive.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

I have all of my games installed. It helps to have a combo of ssd nvme and regular hard drives. Out of the 13, 4 of them are external. I would get another nvme but that would disable 4 of my 8 sata ports. So i would lose 4 of my internal hard drives.

[ReBoot]

I don't even keep most of my games installed. I got the 4 (or so) SP games installed I gravitate towards playing. Then a couple MP games and a bit of a Playlist, that is the part of the backlog I'd like to check out or start/continue anytime soin(ish).

[Crazy Tiger]

I generally have enough space available. Most purchases go into the uninstalled backlog anyway. Exceptions exist, but no need to uninstall stuff for that.

[smokerob79]

i have 3 1tb SATA SSD drives and 1tb m.2 gen 3 with a second gen 4 2tb......i got 6 total TB in my system and never really run out of room......i got my gen 4 2tb for 80 bucks when they were clearing out the over production from COVID......same drive is now a 130 dollars......

[crunchyfrog]

Absolutely.

Largely because it's a method I do in the real world too.

Said it many times but I've been around since the dawn of gaming. I got bit right away in the 1970s and neevr looked back. Bought loads of computers and consoles and games. And the best bit is I never sold them.

So I still play them.

But I'm disabled and it can be a bit of a pain to dig them out to get them and rig them up.

So what I've always done is have "to do" shelves :)
Just some shelves in my bedroom where I'll keep a few hundred of the games I might want to play in the coming few months. I'll go through them play some and ignore others. And then after a few months when I feel like it, I'll go through and cull them - move some or all out and restock them.

So I do the same for Steam. I run a few hard drives and keep installs working much the same way.

The trick is this - BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF.

Never ever give yourself unreasonable standards or metrics. Gaming is about fun, remember that. If you're slogging through a game and you don't enjoy it, don't stick with thinking that you must finish it before tackling another or something. NEVER be afraid to take a look and think "sod this" and do something else.

So set your own standards about what works for you.

[miakisfan]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Paratech2008:

There are games I hope to get during the winter sale that devour hard drive space.

I decided to uninstall some games in anticipation of the sale.

I was curious if others did as well.

I don't have a high end laptop so I like keeping a lot of space open on the old fashioned HDD.

Right now I only have Fallout 4, Planescape: Torment, Elder Scrolls 3; Morrowind, First Snow, and Forest of Soul Slave ready to play.

[SLG]

I only uninstall games that I will not play again. Also games that have sequels.

[Start_Running]

that is sa standard monthly practice for me.
Keeps the drive clutter down.

[crunchyfrog]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

that is sa standard monthly practice for me.
Keeps the drive clutter down.

I find it also keeps brain clutter down too.

In that it encourages you to not worry about "doing that game that's sat there".

[B✪✪tsy]

My SSD is usually for 70% filled with mostly Steam games (and the OS). There are a whole bunch of games installed that I haven't touched for a while, but I keep them installed in case I get cut off from the internet. Then at least I still have a whole bunch of installed games I can play offline.