Apparently my puny hard drive can't handle the awesomeness of Payday 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and Fallout: New Vegas all being installed on my hard disk at the same time.

I spent all my money buying Payday, XCOM and New Vegas so now I can't afford a bigger hard drive. I need to uninstall some of my old games to make room.

Is there a way to sort my Steam games by size on disk? I would prefer to only remove one game rather than several.

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In the newer version of Steam, go to LIBRARY

and in the second block ("shelf") under "WHAT'S NEW", set dropdown to "ALL" and "SORT BY" "Size on Disk".

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Yes. If you go to library and use 'list view' (accessible using the circled button) , then right click in the bar which says Games/Status/Metascore you can select the displayed columns. Click on 'Size on Disk' so that appears as a column, then click on the column header to sort.

Steam menu bar

If it defaults to showing them in descending order, another click will change the order to ascending.

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In the current version of Steam (October 2021), go to Settings/Preferences... -> Downloads -> STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS

Settings

This will open the "Storage Manager" where you can select Sort By: Size on Disk

Here you can also conveniently remove games.

Storage manager

Another way to get your games lined up by size on Windows which I adapted from here, and is a little technical, is thus:

Open PowerShell (windows key, search powershell) and run (copy+paste) these commands:

1) cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ (or wherever your games are stored)

2)

function du($dir=".") { gci . | %{$f=$_; gci -r $_.FullName | measure-object -property length -sum | select @{Name="Name"; Expression={$f}}, @{Name="Sum (GB)"; Expression={"{0:N3}" -f ($_.sum / 1GB) }}, Sum } | sort Sum -desc | format-table -Property Name,"Sum (GB)", Sum -autosize }

This makes a custom function that emulates Unix's du.

3) du

My output, for example:

Name Sum (GB) Sum ---- -------- --- Total War THREE KINGDOMS 33.443 35909039516 PlanetSide 2 14.001 15033674892 GarrysMod 12.345 13255649379 Sid Meier's Civilization VI 10.941 11748131253 Cities_Skylines 10.821 11618987046 Sid Meier's Civilization V 7.706 8274111473 Skyrim 5.618 6031946296 Counter-Strike Source 4.311 4628808572 SpaceEngine 4.060 4359200968 ProjectZomboid 3.272 3513211040 Eve Online 2.878 3090069433 Risk of Rain 2 2.023 2172673698 Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 1.252 1344095911 MountBlade Warband 1.233 1324245692 Steamworks Shared 0.885 950038706 Stronghold 0.834 895090145 Terraria 0.274 293967879 Rust 0.173 186144088 Dying Light 0.127 135939819 Grand Theft Auto V 0.109 116674056 Realm Grinder 0.044 47739977 Half-Life 2 0.036 38305374 Counter-Strike Global Offensive 0.035 37479143 Left 4 Dead 2 0.006 6825097 BorderlandsPreSequel 0.005 5884085 left 4 dead 0.001 1075611 Unturned 0.000 188449 Borderlands 2 0.000 171267 Total War Rome II 0.000 83768 SharecareVR 0.000 5939 The Walking Dead 0.000 957 The Witcher 3 0.000 8

The directories at the bottom are nearly empty because I uninstalled the games and there are some residual files, or the bulk of the files are installed on another drive.

This is one of the many reasons that video games are the only reason I use Windows, but alas..