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i'd grab a lot of old game roms for emulator. nes/snes/gba/mame stuff are tiny in filesize. there are tons of gems in nds/psp too. maybe gc/wii/3ds stuff too, but they're significantly larger.

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.

Deep rock galactic

I like the Ace Attorney trilogies; I'm playing through the Apollo Justice trilogy right now and thats about 19gb. Perfect on the steam deck.

Stardew Valley is under 1gb and is also perfect on Steam Deck. Or Core Keeper is only 1.1gb, for a more crafty less RPG vibe.

Also worth remembering of course, you can use SD cards to expand the space on your Steam Deck, and swap SD cards out as much as you want. So if you have intermittent internet as you imply elsewhere here, loading up games onto SD cards can be very helpful.

I've been enjoying Age of Empires 1 lately. Or Slay if you like puzzle games. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is also great for that. I dunno, there's so many options. Wanna be anymore specific about the type of game you're looking for? It seems a bit silly to mention nearly every game ever made

There are games over 20GB?!

Ostriv was under a gig last I checked. Incredible accomplishment. Beautiful little city/village builder based in Ukraine.

Dwarf Fortress

Throw money at the steam version or just got download the lazy noob pack (keyboard recomended for that one) and learn why it is the hardest game.

Remember kids, Losing is fun!

Have you considered something like EmuDeck? 25GB is dozens if not thousands of games from older retro consoles, depending on how old you would consider.

I love Skald Against the black priory, and I've also started The wandering Village. Both well under that limit!

Horsey Game. Like 150mbs and hilarious but also crazy deep genetics mechanics.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/a_hat_in_time

A Hat in Time, its a fairly small ~10GB game that plays like Mario 64 and its so gosh darn cute. <3

Against the Storm is 5GB. It's a city builder that's pretty chill until the storm comes and then it's not for a bit. I've been enjoying it a lot. Also 70% off right now on Steam.

Megabonk is like half a gig, great on Deck, pretty addictive, and good for when you only have a short window to play something in.

Far cry primal.

Celeste, HK, HK:silksong, hyperlightdrifter, titan souls, crypt of the necrodancer, journey, gris

You can even download 3-4 games from this they are rly smol

Donut county

Brotato!

cult of the lamb and dave the diver are two of my go tos. would recommend!

one note tho: if you notice your deck acting slower, consider unintstalling some games. SSD performance tanks as it nears capacity. it's best to leave about 20% free. I personally don't always follow that, but when it starts acting slow thats my first bet.

Solitaire

Interestingly we are at this point that memory/chip prices are so high that we are asking for game suggestions based on storage requirements.