With every era 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 approach by way of has crept up into the a whole bunch 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 notice 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 exhausting drive. Spoilers: it’s primarily PC!
This put up 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 target 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 hold COG heads entertained for a whole bunch of hours.
Alas, all of these chainsaw bayonets and Boomshots come at a value to your exhausting drive house. Gears 4’s 117 GB file dimension is a complete 12 GB bigger than Gears 5‘s on a Collection X, however it does nonetheless look mighty good to at the present time!
14. Borderlands 3 – 116 GB
Borderlands 3 is likely one of the most trendy and silky easy first-person shooters you may get your arms 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 present me a great ol’ chuckle.
As a fairly expansive recreation already with tens of hours of content material to work your approach by way of in the primary recreation, the set up dimension was already fairly huge. Nevertheless, the DLC expansions equivalent to Psycho Krieg, Bounty of Blood, Improbable Fustercluck, and Moxxi’s Heist of the Good-looking Jackpot have solely gone on to beef up the set up dimension to the quite 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 the most effective a part of a decade. Lastly, in 2020 EA and BioWare caved and we bought 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 house.
With three large RPGs in a single handy bundle, all wrapped up in 4K textures, improved lighting results, audio tracks and lots of extra beauty enhancements, it’s not all of the shocking that Mass Impact: Legendary Version weighs in at 120 GB. Simply assume, it might have been a complete 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 growth groups had been engaged on condensing the annual installments down into far more palatable set up sizes, 2022’s Trendy Warfare 2 (that’s plenty of 2’s… 2) nonetheless manages to nab a spot right here. Weighing in at a quite monumental 121.3 GB on Xbox Collection X, the sport’s nonetheless bought some solution to go for us to not be tutting each time we have to release some house and see it hogging all that room on our storage.
That being stated, there’s a truthful sufficient motive 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, recreation 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 might have launched again in 2015, however that hasn’t stopped it from remaining one of the crucial fashionable on-line video games right this moment. The tactical shooter’s roster of Operators, maps and options has grown exponentially since then, and with a complete 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 quite hefty 131 GB famous right here.
You may guess your backside greenback, too, that its file dimension will solely proceed to develop as Ubisoft continues to help 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 Grasp Chief Assortment 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 numerous visible enhancements and the multiplayer modes packed-in for good measure.
Should you’re operating 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 solution to PC with Closing Fantasy XV Home windows Version again in 2019. The Home windows Version of the title included the bottom recreation, plus all 4 of its separate DLCs, enhanced visuals and improved efficiency (as you’d count on 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 gadgets, in addition to a handful of refinements because the title’s authentic launch on consoles.
All of these tasty 4K dishes you’ve been cooking up at camp take up some critical house in your system, with the Home windows Version taking over 148 GB. Higher get a brand new exhausting drive!
8. Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 – 150 GB
7. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) – 150 GB
Asobo Studios’ Microsoft Flight Simulator was not solely among the finest video games to launch in 2020, but in addition one of many largest recreation installs of all time.
To only get began within the recreation, 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 high of that, any extra mods, plane, area packs or airports that you’ve got the choice to put in on high of this could push that file dimension up much more.
It would seem to be an enormous file dimension, however bear in mind Microsoft Flight Simulator lets you 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 on the subject of what number of gigabytes it’ll take up… anybody? No? We’ll see ourselves out!
6. Forspoken – 150 GB
Whereas Forspoken’s gameplay might have divided critics and followers alike, one factor that just about everybody can agree on is simply how lovely the sport regarded operating on next-gen consoles and highly effective PC elements. From Frey’s character mannequin look uncanny valley ranges of sensible, 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 in fight, Luminous Productions packed rather a lot in right here.
In fact, all these property need to reside someplace, and so Forspoken takes up a large 150 GB on PC. Given it’s not the most important recreation when it comes to content material on this checklist, which may come as a bit shocking. However spend an hour or two in its world and also you’ll see the place all that space for storing has been spent!
5. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – 155 GB
It seems as if 2023 is the 12 months of the chonky recreation, as following on from Forspoken’s January launch within the 12 months was Star Wars Jedi: Survivor in April. With a mess of planets to discover in typical Metroidvania fashion, jaw-droppingly detailed cutscenes and a fantastically-realized galaxy far, far-off, 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 this can be a single-player recreation that you could full inside 50 hours or so, at the least you already know that you simply’ll ultimately get that space for storing 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 all the time been our most popular 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 when it comes to the content material provided or visible constancy.
Forza Horizon 5, in truth, is likely one of the prettiest video games you may play in your Xbox Collection X proper now, with gorgeous native 4K visuals, silky easy 60FPS, and the most detailed car fashions in any racing recreation proper now. You may even learn the warning labels on the within of doorways!
The sport was already large sufficient, however the Sizzling 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 the most effective racing recreation on the console, although, that’s a small worth to pay.
3. Name of Responsibility Black Ops: Chilly Conflict – 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, Name of Responsibility Black Ops: Chilly Conflict, continues this pattern.
With a single-player marketing campaign, multiplayer, Zombies, ray-tracing property, and high-quality textures for the Collection X, the sport is at present hogging 175 GB on my system.
It would seem to be a ridiculous quantity of house to take up, however that could be a bit unfair.
You’re getting three completely different recreation modes, every with high-quality textures, all operating on an engine that allows efficiency at a locked 60 FPS (or larger in the event you’ve bought the show and proper HDMI).
We’d nonetheless quite 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 nearly as good as Chilly Conflict does on Collection X, feels that little bit extra justified.
Editor Notice: Whereas we’re conscious that numerous different Name of Responsibility video games have file sizes surpassing 100 GB and due to this fact belong on this checklist, we thought we’d make it a extra attention-grabbing learn for you by surmising all of them under:
- 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 improper.
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 supplied 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 recreation/ TV experiments to-date, but in addition a quite chonky 178 GB set up on a Collection X.
1. ARK: Survival Developed – 400 GB
ARK: Survival Developed one way or the other manages to blow each different recreation’s set up dimension out of the water as compared. Someway, it manages to weigh in at 400 GB when you embody numerous texture packs, expansions, and an odd approach of file administration on the developer’s half.
Basically, the developer has didn’t make a standard repository for objects. Meaning each DLC has all the dinosaurs, vegetation, water, clouds and different objects and fashions in them. So, quite than simply having one Dodo mannequin, you have got it seven occasions. Now, try this with 1000’s of information 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!
