Can I sort my Steam games by installed size?
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.
If it defaults to showing them in descending order, another click will change the order to ascending.
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".
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..