15 Of The Biggest PC Games By File Size

15. Diablo 4 (2023)

Diablo 4 brings back the series after more than a decade away, but it feels like Blizzard spent most of that time figuring out how to make an always-online action RPG feel slower and more complicated than it needed to be. The combat still delivers that satisfying click-and-kill loop, but everything around it got wrapped in seasonal content, battle passes, and progression systems that turn demon slaying into homework. What used to be a simple power fantasy now comes with so many menus and currencies that you spend more time managing your character than actually playing as one. The game looks gorgeous and runs smoothly, which somehow makes the grind feel even more deliberate. | © Blizzard Entertainment

14. Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)

Baldur's Gate 3 proves that players will gladly sacrifice hard drive space for the kind of RPG where every conversation matters and every choice ripples forward in ways you cannot predict. Larian Studios built a game so dense with branching paths and reactive dialogue that it feels less like following a story and more like living inside one that rewrites itself around your decisions. The character creation alone can eat hours before you even leave the opening area. This is why the file size feels justified instead of bloated. | © Larian Studios

13. Horizon: Forbidden West (2024)

Horizon: Forbidden West drops Aloy into a post-apocalyptic California where robot dinosaurs roam through overgrown San Francisco landmarks, and somehow the real challenge becomes managing your massive inventory of crafting materials. The game doubles down on everything that made the first one work, then adds underwater exploration, new machine types, and enough side quests to keep completionists busy for months. Combat still revolves around that satisfying loop of studying each robot's weak points, then methodically dismantling them with the right arrows and traps. It's the kind of sequel that knows exactly what it is and delivers more of it without apology. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

12. Final Fantasy 16 & Rebirth (2023-2024)

Final Fantasy 16 and Rebirth arrived within a year of each other, dumping over 200GB of sword-swinging spectacle onto hard drives everywhere. Square Enix built these games like blockbuster movies that forgot they were supposed to end, cramming in photorealistic cutscenes, sprawling open worlds, and enough voiced dialogue to fill a small library. The sheer scale makes sense when you see how Rebirth transforms what should be a simple story beat into a 100-hour odyssey through every possible side quest and minigame. Both games feel determined to prove that bigger always means better, even when your storage space disagrees. | © Square Enix

11. God Of War Ragnarok (2024)

God Of War Ragnarok finally made the jump to PC two years after its PlayStation debut, bringing with it the kind of file size that reflects just how much Norse mythology Sony crammed into one game. The father-son dynamic between Kratos and Atreus carries more emotional weight than most family dramas, but it's wrapped inside a spectacle machine that never stops throwing bigger monsters and more elaborate set pieces at you. Every realm feels like it was built to show off what the hardware can do, which explains why the game demands so much storage space. The PC version proves that some stories are worth the wait, even when they take up half your hard drive. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

10. Assassin's Creed Valhalla (2020)

Assassin's Creed Valhalla asks players to spend over 100 hours raiding monasteries and building settlements, then somehow makes most of that time feel like mandatory busywork. The Viking setting delivers impressive spectacle when Eivor is actually doing Viking things, but the game buries those moments under endless collect-a-thons and dialogue trees that stretch simple conversations into small novels. Ubisoft built a massive world that feels more like a checklist than an adventure. All that content has to go somewhere, which explains why the game demands over 150GB of storage space. | © Ubisoft

9. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor delivered the lightsaber combat and Force powers fans wanted, then buried them under technical problems that made the game nearly unplayable at launch. PC players dealt with stuttering frame rates, broken cutscenes, and crashes that turned epic Jedi moments into frustration. The story picks up five years after Fallen Order with Cal Kestis still running from the Empire, but the real enemy became optimization issues that persisted for months. Respawn eventually fixed most of the problems, but not before the launch became a cautionary tale about rushing ambitious games to market. | © EA

8. Forza Horizon 6 (2024)

Forza Horizon 6 pushes racing games into territory that feels almost absurd, with a file size that rivals entire operating systems just to deliver car physics that respond to individual tyre temperatures. The game demands over 150GB before you even download the inevitable car packs and seasonal content updates that Microsoft keeps dropping every few weeks. All that storage goes toward recreating Japan with the kind of obsessive detail that lets you feel the difference between driving on wet asphalt in Tokyo versus muddy mountain roads in rural Hokkaido. The spectacle is undeniable, but so is the hard drive math that makes you delete three other games just to make room for it. | © Xbox Game Studios

7. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (2024)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II doubles down on the original's commitment to historical accuracy, dropping you into 15th-century Bohemia where every sword fight feels like it might be your last and every conversation requires actual thought. The sequel expands the map dramatically while keeping the same unforgiving approach to combat and survival that made fans obsess over proper footwork and armor maintenance. Warhorse Studios clearly decided that making things easier was never the point. The result is a medieval simulation that respects your intelligence even when it's busy destroying your character's kneecaps. | © Deep Silver

6. ARK: Survival Evolved (2017)

ARK: Survival Evolved dumps you naked on a beach filled with dinosaurs and expects you to figure out the rest. The survival mechanics are punishing in ways that feel almost personal, where a single mistake can cost dozens of hours of progress, and your tamed T-Rex can starve to death while you sleep. Building massive bases and breeding prehistoric creatures becomes genuinely addictive once you survive the brutal learning curve. The game earned its reputation as a beautiful, broken, time-devouring monster that somehow keeps players coming back despite wanting to uninstall it every few hours. | © Studio Wildcard

5. Starfield (2023)

Starfield promised a thousand planets to explore, but most of them turned out to be empty rock piles with the same handful of outposts scattered around. Bethesda's space RPG feels like someone took Skyrim's formula and stretched it across an entire galaxy without figuring out what should actually fill all that space. The game works fine when you stick to the main story beats and scripted content, but the moment you try to treat it like the boundless exploration simulator it pretends to be, the illusion falls apart. All those gigabytes end up storing a lot of procedurally generated nothing. | © Microsoft

4. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2019)

Red Dead Redemption 2 demands over 150GB because Rockstar built a world that refuses to fake anything. Every horse has an individual temperament, every NPC follows daily routines whether you watch or not, and Arthur's beard grows in real time while his clothes get dirty from actual mud physics. The attention to simulation detail reaches absurd levels, like tracking how much weight your horse loses or watching strangers react to how recently you bathed. It is a cowboy epic that cares more about making you feel the weight of spurs than keeping the story moving at blockbuster speed. | © Rockstar Games

3. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 (2024)

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 pushes the franchise into near-future warfare with cybernetic enhancements and neural hacking mechanics that actually change how gunfights work. The campaign jumps between timelines in a way that feels more like a puzzle than the usual military thriller, while multiplayer maps are dense with vertical layers and destructible cover systems. All of that ambition comes with a storage cost that makes previous entries look modest. When a single game demands over 200GB just for the base installation, you know the visual fidelity came at a price most hard drives weren't expecting. | © Activision

2. Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond (2020)

Medal Of Honor: Above and Beyond asks you to strap on a VR headset and storm the beaches of Normandy, which sounds incredible until you realize the whole thing weighs in at over 170GB for what amounts to a six-hour campaign. The file size becomes even more baffling when you discover that most of that space goes toward documentary footage and historical interviews that feel completely disconnected from the actual gameplay. Respawn tried to create something meaningful by mixing real World War II stories with virtual reality combat, but the execution feels like two different projects awkwardly glued together. The result is a game that takes up more hard drive space than most people's entire Steam libraries while delivering an experience that never quite justifies either the storage commitment or the VR requirement. | © EA

1. DCS World (2012)

DCS World demands more hard drive space than most people have patience for, but flight sim enthusiasts keep feeding it anyway. The base game starts modest, then explodes into hundreds of gigabytes as you add historically accurate aircraft that cost as much as actual video games and require semester-long courses to operate properly. Each plane comes with cockpits so detailed you can read individual switch labels, flight models that replicate real physics down to engine temperature changes, and weapons systems that work exactly like their real-world counterparts. The file size grows because nothing gets simplified or faked. | © Eagle Dynamics