I love Skald Against the black priory, and I've also started The wandering Village. Both well under that limit!
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Oh i did want to try wandering village. Good call
gah. your just short of no mans sky. which is just under 28. if you don't have retro arch I would throw that on. next to no space and you can put all sorts of old game roms on that also take next to no space. granted you have to install the roms in desktop mode.
Haven't seen anyone mention Slay the Spire yet. The original is under 600MB and the sequel (early-access) is 2GB. They're both good! The first one is maybe a little easier, if you've never played them.
I do have the first one. Thats a great idea
Ostriv was under a gig last I checked. Incredible accomplishment. Beautiful little city/village builder based in Ukraine.
I have been playing Time Snatcher Handy recently, a roguelike centered around a time-stop mechanic, which only uses 44 MB. It is pretty good. Going through my steam library from the lowest up, here are the others i would recommend, stopping at one GB, because most of my games are under 20 GB and i tend to be relatively selective with what games i get so i consider most of them good also:
- TIS-100 (80 MB), programming puzzle game by Zachtronics
- Islanders (150 MB), minimalist city builder
- Enter the Gungeon (346 MB), bullet-hell roguelike
- Streets of Rogue (417 MB), roguelike which emphasizes having multiple possible approaches for how to get any given objective
- Opus Magnum (493 MB), another Zachtronics programming puzzle game
- Vault of the Void (554 MB), roguelike deckbuilder (one of my most played games, especially recommended)
- Backpack Hero (616 MB), roguelike focused on maximizing adjacency bonuses on your inventory grid
- Urbek City Builder (685 MB), city builder (obviously)
- Slipways (735 MB), a game about optimizing trade routes between planets
- Cassette Beasts (1 GB), similar to Pokemon, with the main differences being that you turn into the monsters instead of summoning them, type advantage/disadvantage giving unique status effects rather than just changing damage and battles generally being 2v2 instead of 1v1
Lot of my picks have already been mentioned but if you like story-rich point and clicks:
The rusty lake series (~1GB each)
Strange Horticulture (1GB)
Or very chill adventure:
Slime rancher (1GB)
Rouge-lite/rogue-like:
Death Road to Canada (60MB)
Binding of Isaac (449 MB) - this is my all time favourite game and I'm surprised to see the base game is still under $20.
Im surprised you're the only one thats mentioned isaac. Fun game. Check out cult of the lamb if you haven't already
I enjoy unique story driven games. Two favourites are:
- Papers, please. <100MB
- Do not feed the monkeys. <1GB
Honorary mention to Not tonight. It's very papers-inspired, but unique enough.
Have you played soma? Great story
Undertale, In Stars and Time, Blue Prince, and Doki Doki Literature Club are my favorite games that haven't already been mentioned here. All of them are somewhat dialogue/text-heavy.
Good suggestions. I do have undertale, but I'll have to check out the other ones. Thanks
Minecraft (Java Edition, the standard).
About 0,3 GB, and needs no introduction. Endless box of fun in a tiny cross-platform package.
I just played cubic Odyssey for my block game fix. I do have Minecraft on my switch already.
I'd recommend installing Prism launcher and checking out some modpacks. Vault Hunters in particular builds its own game on top of Minecraft. I think my largest instance has been ~5GB including the save.
Fields of Mistria is a cute farming game like Stardew Valley, and it’s only like 800MB.
Balatro is tiny, like 150 MB tiny. And endlessly playable. If you like poker and/or rogue likes it's pound for pound one of the best deals out there both money and memory wise
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Outer Wilds is 8GB, and the best puzzle/mystery game I have ever played. The less you know about the game up front, the better.
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