Running games off my microsd has a lot of issues and only works rarely (legion go s, not sure if its the reader or card, heard it’s just slow in general)
So I’m looking for more smaller games (at or below 10gb with exceptions if it’s multiplayer online, no bigger than 25gb in that case)
Right Now I Have (haven’t played or tried them all yet, I like variety when I do sit down to play)
- Trackmania Stadium and Valley less than 2gb total
- Trackmania 7gb
- Helldivers 2 slim version 22.54gb
- Warhammer speed freaks (suprisingly fun when theres a lobby with ppl) 17gb
- Asphalt Legends 9gb (way better than I expected out of a free game)
- Burnout Paradise Remastered 7.45gb
- Flatout Ultimate Carnage 5.19gb
- Redout 4.56
- Risk of Rain 2 3gb
- Astroneer 3gb
- Valheim 2gb
- Factorio 1.89gb
- Slay The Spire 1.66gb
- Monster Train 1.51gb
- N++ 1.35gb
- Rivals of Aether 351mb
- Enter the Gungeon 343mb
- Noobs are coming 311mb
- Nuclear Throne 222mb
- Brotato 213mb
- Hypersomnia (topdown shooter) 500mb
- Albion Online 7gb (tried it a few times, never really clicked but I crave a mmo)
- Hades 2 11.4gb
- Hollow Knight 7.6gb
I like all genres but prefer stuff that works purely with the controller.
Ideally, looking for multiplayer pvp game that isn’t a first person shooter since mouse and keyboard wins out there on pc.
Do topdown and sidescrolling online pvp shooters still exist?
Stardew Valley works pretty well with a controller
Check out portmaster
this is on steamos like a steamdeck, think thats more for weaker handhelds
Ah I see. I think it’d be a good reference point on what’s on the lower end still though even if you don’t use portmaster itself
UFO50 runs great on my R36S via Portmaster.
I’ve played loads of it on my anbernic GBA
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
One of the smallest games in terms of disc space is Animal Well with under 40mb.
Really??? Watching the trailer I thought it would be at least 1-2 GB
That dev is a magician
Was going to say Animal Well. Amazing game
And it’s a great game at that
Here’s my list of currently installed below 10 gigs:
- 20 Minutes Till Dawn - 128 MB
- Katana Zero - 220 MB
- Donut County - 310 MB
- Mini Metro - 325 MB
- Hyperlight Drifter - 510 MB
- Yes, Your Grace - 740 MB
- Motorslice Demo - 960 MB
- Battle Chef - 1.3 GB
- Tunic - 1.7 GB
- SEKTORI - 2.7 GB
- Deaths Door - 3.6 GB
- BallisticNG - 4.5 GB
- Ruiner - 10.61 GB (Just a tad over 10, but such a good game for Deck)
Does ballisticng still have an online playerbase?
Balatro
Drop Duchy
Into the Breach (I think this one works on Linux, I don’t think FTL does)
UFO 50
Crypt of the Necrodancer/Rift of the Necrodancer
Super Motherlode (since it looks like you used to play flash games)
Dave the Diver
Vampire Survivors
Hades 1 (it’s still fun even after 2!)
One Step From Eden
Dungeon clawler, breachway, cult of the lamb, and cobalt core are in a similar vein and have worked great on my deck
FTL is linux native. Last I checked works fine.
These seem solid, I put off a few of them like dave the diver and vampire survivors, because I wanted to get a handheld first and forgot about them
Nobody has said Hades or Cult of Lamb yet? Uh
Dark Souls 8gb Raft 10gb Blasphemous 1 & 2 4gb each TMNT Splintered Fate 5gb it’s a weaker Hades, but still pretty fun. Megabonk 500mb Ball x Pit 600mb
I heard demon souls ps3 works well (prob not a small file size), but I have a ps5 and I feel should just get it on there and play the remake
How does dark souls hold up if you’ve only beat/played elden ring?
These are all smaller games that I’ve enjoyed playing on my steam deck, none of them are online multiplayer focused though:
Inscryption
Celeste
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Spelunky
Bad North
Carrion
Death’s Door
Anything emulated
helldivers has a build that is like 30 GB now. runs the same as before on my fedora system.
It’s like 22, I have it installed.
I remember I fit binding of isaac and an archlinux install into 10 gigs of storage using btrfs transparent compression.
The computer was a craptop with only 32 gigs of flash storage overall.
DREDGE
Guild wars reforged is good. Only 8 skills means you can map 8 or 4x2 buttons easily.
Never played it orginally, seems interesting
- brotato - 2d shooter+deck builder
- mindustry - I recommend this all the time. Open Source, RTS + FactoryBuilder, fantastic game.
Both < 1gb
Mindustry vs factorio?
The factory building part in Factorio is way way deeper and far more complex. And if you add Space Age, five times so.
Mindustry is mainly a tower defense, and the factory part serves this mechanic.
You still need to mine resources and build stuff and bring the ammo to the turrets using conveyor belts and all that good factory things.
It’s a pretty fun game and you can play it even on mobile.
Realized you can significantlly compress ps2 roms using emu decks compression tool, and have saved quite a bit of space doing that, shrunk the size of each rom by more than half
I have seen up to 80% file size reduction in some cases compressing to CHD format with chdman. Most of the time its about a 50% reduction, in some cases a little less like Metal Gear Solid 3. Is there a better format?
