PSA: Steam has a hidden characteristic that permits you to move your game installs round

Steam has a hidden characteristic tucked away in its settings that permits you to handle all the video games you will have put in. If you wish to see where that large chunk of Name of Responsibility knowledge has made a house for itself, you do not have to dig round in your PC’s folders. The Steam storage supervisor brings up a listing of all of the video games in your PC and allows you to do the work in a single window.

For some motive, the Steam storage supervisor is not positioned in an intuitive spot. To open it up, you need to go into your Steam settings. Pop open the settings from the Steam shopper by clicking “Steam” within the high left of the window after which hit “Settings”. Now choose “Downloads” after which click on the confusingly titled “Steam Library Folders” to open the storage supervisor up.

The storage supervisor is cut up into tabs for every storage drive in your PC with a delegated Steam folder on it. If you wish to add one other drive to the checklist, you may hit the plus button on the appropriate. I do not personally preserve a ton of video games hanging round on my PC if I am not actively enjoying them, however for all of the individuals who hoard them simply in case, you may see every little thing right here with out having to sift by way of your drives.

Each game has a checkbox subsequent to it that permits you to mark it to be uninstalled or moved to a different drive. You additionally get info like storage dimension, DLC storage dimension, and once you final performed every game. Why do I nonetheless have VRChat put in regardless of getting my fill of operating round as a Genshin character to crash digital raves? I am undecided, however with this device I may lastly do away with it. I will not, however I may.

For these dire occasions where video games aren’t working fairly right, the Steam storage supervisor additionally helps you to restore a whole folder of video games as a substitute of manually doing it for each. I can not consider a standard motive you’d want to do that, but it surely may come up after a tough drive failure or another PC-wide malfunction. To do it, choose the three dots on the appropriate finish of the storage breakdown and choose “Restore Folder”.

The Steam storage supervisor is not precisely groundbreaking expertise, but it surely’s a handy device for moving information round with out having to pull them your self. It was solely launched final 12 months, so it’d get further choices sooner or later. It might be neat to see a listing of the video games I’ve put in on my Steam Deck and possibly some form of choice to routinely move my least performed video games to a different drive or one thing. However this characteristic’s restricted performance and easy visualization alone is a pleasant strategy to handle your storage, particularly as game set up sizes fluctuate wildly. I am wanting on the 48 GB of Elden Ring that I can not determine if I ought to wipe from my drive or preserve round for that eventual DLC. I feel I will preserve it, however now I do know where to go if I have to make room for one thing else.