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?

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Been playing through persona 4 golden, it’s about o gigs on size off the top of my head

Also dark souls

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Haven’t seen Dead Cells mentioned. Love that game.

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Absolum is a nice new roguelite / beat-em-up, played it in local co-op with a friend. Size was around 5 GB.

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Vampire Survivor is ~600 Mb. Balatro is ~150 Mb. I will second Brotato.

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Stardew Valley works pretty well with a controller

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One of the smallest games in terms of disc space is Animal Well with under 40mb.

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Was going to say Animal Well. Amazing game

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And it’s a great game at that

Really??? Watching the trailer I thought it would be at least 1-2 GB

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That dev is a magician

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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).

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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

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Been meaning to play celeste, loved towerfall. Is spelunky 2 any good, kinda overplayed the original back when it was a free ps plus game.

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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

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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?

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DS feels slow and a bit clunky compared to Elden Ring, but it plays in the same way, except it’s more linear, and it’s not open world.

The weapon upgrade system is more tedious, as there are several types of upgrade materials and branching upgrade paths.

But overall, it’s still a solid game almost 15 years later.

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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.

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Balatro

Drop Duchy

Into the Breach (I think this one works on Linux)

FTL

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

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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

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Can you tell I like rogue-likes? I do think they work great for mobile games since you can pick them up and put them down easily

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Dungeon clawler, breachway, cult of the lamb, and cobalt core are in a similar vein and have worked great on my deck

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FTL is linux native. Last I checked works fine.

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Cool, I updated my post. I remember for a long time it was only available on PC and iPad. Not on iPhone. So I just kinda assumed it wouldn’t

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Guild wars reforged is good. Only 8 skills means you can map 8 or 4x2 buttons easily.

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Never played it orginally, seems interesting

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Silly Poly Beast - 3 GB Another Crab’s Treasure - 7.7 GB

Rabbit and Steel - 376 MB, coop PVE game, plays a lot like FFXIV raids

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DREDGE

Also Skul the Hero Slayer

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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)
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Does ballisticng still have an online playerbase?

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Not at random.

But you can definitley find people looking to play via the community, but you won’t have much luck just jumping into online.

Game is still getting updates.

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