With every technology of online game consoles, video games proceed to get larger and higher. Worlds are teeming with element, and proceed to stretch past the horizon. Character fashions are intricately detailed, and the sheer quantity of quests and content material for gamers to work their method by way of has crept up into the lots of of hours to finish. So right here, we’re wanting on the 15 largest video games of all time, ranked by their set up dimension.
A fast be aware right here, to avoid wasting this from being a really repetitive checklist of Name of Responsibility titles, we’ve bundled most of these collectively. The place attainable, we’ve additionally defined why these video games are so enormous and on what platforms their set up sizes are going to dominate your onerous drive. Spoilers: it’s primarily PC!
This publish was up to date and is correct as of Could 11, 2023.
15. Gears 4 – 117 GB
Who’d have guessed that it’s not The Coalition’s most up-to-date launch within the Gears franchise that’d make this checklist, however Gears 4 as a substitute.
Gears 4 was the primary entry to shift the main focus away from Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad, as a substitute trying to Kait Diaz, Del and J.D. Fenix (Marcus’ son) to take the reigns of the collection.
With the same old bombastic marketing campaign, tactical multiplayer and a few main adjustments to the fan-favorite Horde mode, Gears 4 might maintain COG heads entertained for lots of of hours.
Alas, all of these chainsaw bayonets and Boomshots come at a price to your onerous drive area. Gears 4’s 117 GB file dimension is an entire 12 GB bigger than Gears 5‘s on a Collection X, nevertheless it does nonetheless look mighty good to this present day!
14. Borderlands 3 – 116 GB
Borderlands 3 is among the most trendy and silky clean first-person shooters you may get your fingers on proper now. Oh, and it’s additionally crammed with rest room humor, which you’ll both love or hate. Personally, Claptrap’s musings by no means fail to provide me ol’ chuckle.
As a reasonably expansive sport already with tens of hours of content material to work your method by way of in the principle sport, the set up dimension was already fairly large. Nonetheless, the DLC expansions equivalent to Psycho Krieg, Bounty of Blood, Unbelievable Fustercluck, and Moxxi’s Heist of the Good-looking Jackpot have solely gone on to beef up the set up dimension to the relatively gargantuan 116 GB. Should you can’t get sufficient of the cell-shaded shooter motion, although, it’s a small worth to pay.
13. Mass Impact: Legendary Version – 120 GB
Mass Impact: Legendary Version is the remake of BioWare’s epic sci-fi RPG trilogy that followers had actually been begging for for one of the best a part of a decade. Lastly, in 2020 EA and BioWare caved and we acquired to slide into the footwear of Commander Shepard as soon as once more as we captained the Normandy by way of the huge expanses of area.
With three large RPGs in a single handy bundle, all wrapped up in 4K textures, improved lighting results, audio tracks and plenty of extra beauty enhancements, it’s not all of the stunning that Mass Impact: Legendary Version weighs in at 120 GB. Simply suppose, it might have been an entire lot worse had they tried to shove Andromeda in there, too.
12. Trendy Warfare 2 (2022) – 121.3 GB
Oh, look! Regardless of Activision claiming that the Name of Responsibility improvement groups have been engaged on condensing the annual installments down into way more palatable set up sizes, 2022’s Trendy Warfare 2 (that’s loads of 2’s… 2) nonetheless manages to nab a spot right here. Weighing in at a relatively huge 121.3 GB on Xbox Collection X, the sport’s nonetheless acquired some method to go for us to not be tutting each time we have to liberate some area and see it hogging all that room on our storage.
That being mentioned, there’s a honest sufficient purpose for all these candy gigabytes being snaffled up. The sport has a marketing campaign sporting gorgeous 4K visuals, a multiplayer mode with an ever-increasing quantity of maps, sport modes and weapons, and even a Spec Ops mode for some enjoyable co-op occasions.
11. Rainbow Six: Siege – 131 GB
Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege could have launched again in 2015, however that hasn’t stopped it from remaining one of the widespread on-line video games right now. The tactical shooter’s roster of Operators, maps and options has grown exponentially since then, and with an entire host of texture packs that may be added to make the sport look considerably prettier on PC, its set up dimension can balloon as much as the relatively hefty 131 GB famous right here.
You’ll be able to guess your backside greenback, too, that its file dimension will solely proceed to develop as Ubisoft continues to assist it with extra content material to satiate followers urge for food for tactical team-based antics.
10. Halo: The Grasp Chief Assortment – 137 GB
Given the sheer quantity of content material The Master Chief Collection packs in, its 137 GB file dimension is definitely pretty palatable.
You’re getting Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo Attain and Halo 4 all with quite a few visible enhancements and the multiplayer modes packed-in for good measure.
Should you’re working an Xbox Collection X, it’s attainable to expertise Grasp Chief’s varied adventures in as much as 4K resolutions at 120 FPS.
Lowered load occasions, adjustable FOV, and split-screen make it the whole bundle for any Halo fan, and with new Seasons bringing extra cosmetics for multiplayer followers, the 126 GB is a worthwhile sacrifice for all that content material.
9. Closing Fantasy XV Home windows Version – 148 GB
Noctis and the lads made their method to PC with Closing Fantasy XV Home windows Version again in 2019. The Home windows Version of the title included the bottom sport, plus all 4 of its separate DLCs, enhanced visuals and improved efficiency (as you’d anticipate from a PC port).
To be exact, it’s high-res 4K textures, HDR compatibility and extremely excessive graphics choices. You’ll additionally get all the DLC and bonus objects, in addition to a handful of refinements because the title’s unique launch on consoles.
All of these tasty 4K dishes you’ve been cooking up at camp take up some critical area in your system, with the Home windows Version taking over 148 GB. Higher get a brand new onerous drive!
8. Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 – 150 GB
7. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) – 150 GB
Asobo Studios’ Microsoft Flight Simulator was not solely the most effective video games to launch in 2020, but additionally one of many largest sport installs of all time.
To simply get began within the sport, you’re a 150GB set up, that’s after you’ve downloaded a 1GB preliminary file to start the hefty set up course of. On prime of that, any extra mods, plane, area packs or airports that you’ve got the choice to put in on prime of this will push that file dimension up much more.
It’d seem to be a large file dimension, however bear in mind Microsoft Flight Simulator permits you to fly round a high-quality rendition of Earth. A whole digital planet distilled down into 150GB… good.
I’d be remiss to not point out all the extra mods you may add to Microsoft Flight Simulator, too. A few of these use extremely high-quality property which can solely balloon that set up dimension up additional. So, you possibly can say the sky’s the restrict relating to what number of gigabytes it’ll take up… anybody? No? We’ll see ourselves out!
6. Forspoken – 150 GB
Whereas Forspoken’s gameplay could have divided critics and followers alike, one factor that just about everybody can agree on is simply how stunning the sport appeared working on next-gen consoles and highly effective PC parts. From Frey’s character mannequin look uncanny valley ranges of practical, by way of to even probably the most minute particulars of its fantasy world being delivered to life, and a plethora of particle results exploding in your display screen in fight, Luminous Productions packed lots in right here.
After all, all these property must reside someplace, and so Forspoken takes up a large 150 GB on PC. Given it’s not the most important sport by way of content material on this checklist, which may come as just a little stunning. However spend an hour or two in its world and also you’ll see the place all that cupboard space has been spent!
5. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – 155 GB
It seems as if 2023 is the 12 months of the chonky sport, as following on from Forspoken’s January launch within the 12 months was Star Wars Jedi: Survivor in April. With a large number of planets to discover in typical Metroidvania model, jaw-droppingly detailed cutscenes and a fantastically-realized galaxy far, distant, Jedi: Survivor give the sport even an hour of your time and it quickly turns into clear why the sport manages to steal 155 GB of storage on consoles and PCs alike.
As it is a single-player sport that you could full inside 50 hours or so, at the least you understand that you just’ll ultimately get that cupboard space again while you’ve watched the credit roll.
4. Forza Horizon 5 – 156.6 GB
Playground Video games’ open-world Forza Horizon video games have at all times been our most well-liked titles within the collection over Turn10’s extra critical track-based racing sim Motorsport titles.
Simply because the Forza Horizon collection is extra arcadey and fewer critical than its Motorsport counterpart, doesn’t imply it’s slouching by way of the content material supplied or visible constancy.
Forza Horizon 5, the truth is, is among the prettiest video games you may play in your Xbox Collection X proper now, with gorgeous native 4K visuals, silky clean 60FPS, and the most detailed automobile fashions in any racing sport proper now. You’ll be able to even learn the warning labels on the within of doorways!
The sport was already large sufficient, however the Scorching Wheels and Rally Journey expansions solely bump that up additional, to the purpose it’s now taking over 156.6 GB on the Collection X. For one of the best racing sport on the console, although, that’s a small worth to pay.
3. Name of Responsibility Black Ops: Chilly Warfare – 175 GB
Activision’s Name of Responsibility collection’ file sizes have been slowly creeping up with every annual launch. The most recent from Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War, continues this development.
With a single-player marketing campaign, multiplayer, Zombies, ray-tracing property, and high-quality textures for the Collection X, the sport is presently hogging 175 GB on my system.
It’d seem to be a ridiculous quantity of area to take up, however which may be just a little unfair.
You’re getting three totally different sport modes, every with high-quality textures, all working on an engine that permits efficiency at a locked 60 FPS (or greater in case you’ve acquired the show and proper HDMI).
We’d nonetheless relatively Activision and its rotation of Name of Responsibility builders discovered a method of compressing that file dimension down a bit, when the video games look and run pretty much as good as Chilly Warfare does on Collection X, feels that little bit extra justified.
Editor Observe: Whereas we’re conscious that quite a few different Name of Responsibility video games have file sizes surpassing 100 GB and subsequently belong on this checklist, we thought we’d make it a extra attention-grabbing learn for you by surmising all of them beneath:
- Infinite Warfare – 101 GB
- Black Ops 3 – 113 GB
- Trendy Warfare (2019) – 175 GB (Marketing campaign, Multiplayer, Spec Ops)
2. Quantum Break – 178 GB
I really like how Quantum Break’s nonetheless kicking it on this checklist 5 years after its preliminary launch. A purely single-player expertise, Quantum Break follows the story of Jack Joyce as he investigates a time journey experiment gone incorrect.
There have been some sharp visuals (for the time) and a few nice physics and time-manipulation-based mechanics that clearly requires a far few gigs to get working seamlessly.
It was Quantum Break’s merging of video video games and its TV episode-style live-action cutscenes that actually padded out the file dimension. These episodes offered much more context to the story, and would change relying on the actions made in-game, so many scenes needed to be shot a number of occasions.
All of this culminates in not solely one of many coolest sport/ TV experiments to-date, but additionally a relatively chonky 178 GB set up on a Collection X.
1. ARK: Survival Advanced – 400 GB
ARK: Survival Advanced someway manages to blow each different sport’s set up dimension out of the water compared. By some means, it manages to weigh in at 400 GB when you embody quite a few texture packs, expansions, and an odd method of file administration on the developer’s half.
Primarily, the developer has didn’t make a typical repository for objects. Which means each DLC has all the dinosaurs, crops, water, clouds and different objects and fashions in them. So, relatively than simply having one Dodo mannequin, you might have it seven occasions. Now, try this with hundreds of recordsdata and voila, you find yourself with frankly unreasonable 400 GB set up dimension for ARK.
This does contain you having all the free and paid DLC put in. Add any extra mods on, and also you’ll balloon it up even additional. First particular person to make a 1 TB set up of ARK wins!
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