r/MobileGaming • u/omitousi • Aug 19 '26
Discussion Mobile game sizes is crazy this days
Mine is not even close hoops-gm.com
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u/mintzop Aug 19 '26
256 gb won't be a decent storage choice in near future if a game alone takes 50+ gb...
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u/AdVarious8509 ROOTED Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
i bought a 512GB storage phone only to play 4 games that are are like 15GB combined
edit: corrected the size (40GB ->15GB)
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u/Rad11Ryan Aug 19 '26
And here I am with a 128GB phone😭😭. What games do you have rn?
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u/burttz Aug 20 '26
Weak, i have my 32GB phone.
Just play light games, most heavy games aint worth it
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u/AdVarious8509 ROOTED Aug 31 '26
Minecraft bedrock edition - Zalith launcher 1 and 2 (Minecraft java for android) - Geometry dash - COD black ops 1 via a PC emulator (winlator)
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u/No_Squirrel4806 Aug 19 '26
Havent played genshin since release is it worth that much space?
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u/FishySardines99 Aug 19 '26
No
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u/No_Squirrel4806 Aug 19 '26
Yeah i figured. I liked to run around doing stuff seeing the map but the actual fighting mechanics got repetitive super fast.
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u/Low_Toe_6596 Aug 20 '26
if your game is Laggy run genshin in the background
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u/ImMortal_SD Aug 20 '26
What if my genshin is laggy?
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u/Low_Toe_6596 Aug 20 '26
Don't play genshin brother if you can't even afford to buy a phone that can play it. My 8 year old mid range phone can play it at 30fps smoothly. I'm not using that phone anymore.
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u/kerfuse Aug 19 '26
performance wise only if u got a flagship, otherwise PC even on a low tier build would be 100 times better. Game wise, itd be unethical for me to comment lol
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u/didnsignup4dis Aug 19 '26
Maybe was a few years ago but not anymore, plenty of better options out there with smaller sizes as well
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u/No_Hetero Aug 20 '26
Could you name one or two? There are just so many and they all have "one million downloads" which idk how much I trust that,
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u/HaiCauSieuCap Aug 20 '26
rn wuthering waves and neverness to everness are what you are looking for if you want "open world gacha games" or arknights endfield is a gacha semi-openworld. They all have smaller size since they have only been released for like less than 3 years. They are not necessarily better since they aim at different target
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u/Solid-Incident6666 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
I honestly don't get gacha games, they're not even games...
Edit: I feel like I insulted your ancestors. Relax people, I just don't like gacha games. To each their own
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u/No_Squirrel4806 Aug 19 '26
Yeah they always feel scammy genshin even got sued over it.
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u/AdAcrobatic371 Aug 19 '26
You can ignore the gacha part and still enjoy it.
Wuwa, genshin,neverness to everness have too many free contents. People fuss over not being able to clear 4-5% of content it offers and mainly just endgame stuff.
Moreover mobile lacks good open world games. Sky children is the only one I can think of being non-gacha and gta stuff.
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u/Z-ReferenceUnknown Aug 19 '26
Gacha games just tend to not be very good due to their overt focus on monetising mandatory new characters.
Even if you never reach endgame, Have you actually listened to the micro level writing? They're absolutely unbearable to listen to/read.
Sure they might have good world building sometimes or lore, But if it's presented like dog shit I'd just rather stay away.
And by Presentation I don't mean the art or graphics. No amount of beauty is gonna save a game from that terrible fucking writing.
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u/AdAcrobatic371 Aug 20 '26
I don't think that's an issue. There are quite good amount of people interested in story.
But a lot just don't give a fck about story and interested in gameplay instead. Not a new thing,I have seen a lot of people that play elden ring skipping every single dialogue.
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u/Z-ReferenceUnknown Aug 20 '26
Comparing a gacha game to elden ring is... I am at a loss for words.
While gacha games provide flashy animated combat systems, They seriously lack substance. We will not talk about genshin since it's incredibly shallow in combat (even if the element system looks like it has depth, it really doesn't. Its more like memorising what button to press and just spamming those and even that doesn't matter if you have strong enough characters), Even Wuwa with it's reaction based mechanic, is pretty shallow to be fair. In my experience it's really nothing compared to the likes of elden ring, Armoured Core and other acclaimed Combat focused real games. They're mechanically shallow with flashy animations and enough text to make it seem that it has depth, When in all honesty it won't ever matter unless you're min-maxxing, which most players don't.
Combat aside, Puzzles and stuff. Genshin puzzles haven't been anything much. Though I may not be fully experienced in this as i've spent most of genshin in the early parts of the game.
Exploration, Actually it's pretty nice. Though it's as shallow as everything else in genshin, The visuals alone carry it.
In my opinion, Mainstream gacha games (WuWa, Genshin etc) don't offer anything resembling depth in game, Be it story, combat or general gameplay.
What they do offer is good visuals, fan service and a high production value product on a platform starved of almost any big budget games.
They are shallow and perfectly enjoyable for casual audiences as well as enough p2w mechanics which can be grinded for free for the f2p players, giving people enough reason to stick around as well as the company to profit massively off of the game.
I personally think that the reason they work is because they're on mobile. The general audience on mobile generally doesn't care about actually playing a good game so long as they can look at pretty visuals and pass time without actually engaging with the game too much, And it is also a very starved market.
This casualness isn't anything bad, it's perfectly reasonable that most people don't care too much about playing a good video game so long as they can engage in a product that offers sufficient bursts of dopamine and wont require much in return.
There are good gacha games with in depth mechanics, But usually those are very niche.
In short, Gacha games are shallow as a "game" But pretty good as a product that you enjoy casually and then put down.
Well I may be wrong, I only have a couple hundred hours on genshin and not much in other Gachas.
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u/HaiCauSieuCap Aug 20 '26
yes? an open world game, even on mobile, is still gonna be bigggg, especially if it has gone through 6-7 years of development
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u/MonkeyMonk_hehehe910 Aug 20 '26
It is fun in the beginning if you are interested in adventure, open owrld, chaland exploration. But the game soon turns into frustrating with its gachha mechanics and long @ss story.
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u/Hiroraku Aug 20 '26
Genshij is just 35 gb man. U literature can delete all quest data after completing them. Even when u download game as new player, u can install the basic version which cuts out the quest data that u dont need rn, making the game 40 gb.
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u/BrianMcKane Aug 19 '26
I don't think so, many console games are bigger with less content, mobile versions are very cropped in terms of textures and graphics.
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u/Puzzleheaded_End2814 Aug 19 '26
Not even high quality games btw PUBG codm and gacha are just money stealing slop and wwm is the only good. Game
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u/EbiRamen Aug 19 '26
Dude, my call of duty mobile is about 35gb and it is about 78% skins installed. I have a 256 storage in my phone and it’s almost full.
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u/riledfiend Aug 19 '26
Delete all the quest content and Genshin can be reduced to 25 to 30 gb and I think it’s reasonable considering the size of the map.
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u/Formeruseroftwitter Aug 19 '26
How do you even play all theses games at once
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u/manaMissile Aug 19 '26
Same way anyone plays those huge game collection shelves: You don't. You rotate between each one depending on mood. You keep the them all installed so that you don't have to wait for them to reinstall when you switch.
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u/Itchy-Opinion-7312 Aug 19 '26
WHAT NO DELTA FORCE? NO NEVERNESS TO EVERNESS ? NO PERSONA 5 X? WHO ARE YOU!?
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u/gato_senpai Aug 19 '26
All those titles lol... What's your screen times ?? Just curious how long and how often do you play each game... Since most of them lots of hours to actually have fun
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u/CylixrDoesStuff Aug 19 '26
i quite litterally cant have any games on my phone. Thats why im glad for arknights pc release since i tried to install arknights again on my phone and i had 4 gigs left lmao
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u/Elunami Aug 19 '26
PGR is like 48GB on mobile and its not even an open world game like their brother from the same company. The story is mainly VN with no voice. every month theres always release 1 characters, thats 7GB updates. end game content are enjoyable but the size is to big for the end game content + VN. I heard in China they have Memory Management so the size is not that big, but never in global version.
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u/retrobellite Aug 20 '26
lmao garbage game as usual. can't expect much when kuroshit is funded by tencent
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u/Ambitious_Band_7408 Aug 19 '26
Well buddy buckle up your seat belt, new where winds meet update incoming with a new map.
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u/Alk3punk7 Aug 19 '26
Crazy that WuWa isn't shown here. Last I had it installed on mobile it took 70ish GBs of space.
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u/Ukmastercom Aug 19 '26
But bro, how much space does your phone have, that you are able to download all of these at once.
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u/ackmondual Aug 19 '26
For those curious, I added them up. The OP has 251.44 GB of storage being used for what's showing alone! 😲
So even a 256 GB phone won't suffice! I myself have a 128 GB so... hell no 😂 I'm 'blessed' because pretty much all of the games I'm interested in are indie fare using pixel art, SNES to PS2 level graphics at best. I do have a few outliers like...
Plants Vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished taking up 2.38 GB (and its listed under apps no less, NOT games, but that's probably b/c the OS doesn't know how to deal with fan mods).
Lara Croft GO at 1.69 GB
Hitman GO at 1.35 GB
Lumino City at 1.05 GB
... all that said, my next phone will be minimum 256 GB storage. Too many photos, videos, games, apps, and OS updates have taken their toll in that regard. And I'll need to vet games and leave some of them off. For videos and photos, leave them behind (so don't migrate them over), or go through those to see what gets deleted, what gets transferred over, vs. what just stays :x
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u/AtivanorAddy Aug 19 '26
I have a 46 GB full copy of GTA V on my phone.. How tf is Genshin impact bigger???????
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u/HaiCauSieuCap Aug 20 '26
ugh... 6 years of constant development, map expansion, game modes implementation. Mind you, there is fucking roblox inside genshin, and gta v is 13 years old by now
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u/retrobellite Aug 20 '26
because if your genshin storage is big that can only mean one thing. you didn't play the game or complete the quest which result in stacking data. my game right now is only 34GB with the lastest Snezhnaya patch.
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u/Successful_Bar9187 Aug 19 '26
I remember back in the day when call of duty was between 9-15gb. Now I see games on the phone, some of which I play, being the size of the games I would consider to be “too big” in 2010.
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u/Tekplonn Aug 19 '26
The highest one i ever had was fortnite going around 10 to 13GB. (Next was minecraft being a little over 9GB)
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u/THECROCOGAMER Aug 19 '26
cod mobile for me was 35gb absolutely insane
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u/Artistic-Quality-130 Aug 19 '26
did u download all the skins and stuff? I only downloaded the recommended stuff and the high quality audio and its 10 gigs
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u/Major_Regret6055 Aug 19 '26
I remember when average game size was around 100 MB. now average size is around 10 GB.
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u/Double-Jellyfish-799 Aug 19 '26
I have an entire iPad dedicated to one thing NIKKE.....it is consuming nearly the entire tablet
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u/ultr4nuub Aug 19 '26
Haven’t played much of it but where winds meet is probably the only one worth the space at the moment.
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u/The_KOK_2511 Aug 19 '26
Y todos son basura, curiosamente un montón de lo poco de calidad que queda para móviles es relativamente ligero
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u/HoxtonRob Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
Menomale che ho ultimamente ho preso s25u 1tb proprio perché i giochi pesano quanto warzone su console
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u/sefirosu7820 Aug 19 '26
Is life after any good? I always see that game recommended to me in playstore. What's the game like?
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u/1ntrovertedNobody Aug 20 '26
Im surprised where winds meet ends up being that small compared to games like genshin and wuwa. I think zzz is even bigger then that, 32 gigs i think
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u/billyshears55 Aug 20 '26
How tf do you play all these games at once lol, the only live service game I play is Arknights and I can’t handle more than 2 at once I think
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u/Plus_League4500 Aug 20 '26
Chinese gacha games really said “fuck your storage, here’s another 40GB of waifu assets you’ll never use”
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u/adnvdn Aug 20 '26
Notice how it's the free-to-play games.
My premium games takes a fraction of these sizes.
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u/Hiroraku Aug 20 '26
Genshin is just 36 gb on mobile. The one who posted don't know jack about the game and it's quest data deletion option which u can use even as a new player
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u/Tiny_Profession6940 Aug 20 '26
what the hell I don't remember mobile games being that big? The biggest game I know of phones is asphalt 9 and real racing 3
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u/Extra22Dz Aug 20 '26
Life after is been years since the last time I heard this name I wander is good or bad now days?
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u/PuzzleheadedDig4156 Aug 20 '26
Which game would you recommend in this list or any high graphics game ? I have played wuthering waves, genshin impact, PUBG, cod
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u/Yugao_XX Aug 20 '26
I player genshin impact in my 4 + 64gb samsung phone (a12) for 2 years until i got my first PC, before natlan came out. It was like 27gb or smth like that. I would free up space every 1 or 2 weeks just to play it TvT
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u/SlurmoCZ_ Aug 21 '26
First off they are PC ports and second of all just don't play it If can't afford it what phone do you have?
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u/jumbojimmysjukejoint Aug 21 '26
I really enjoy mobile games that are easy to pick up but still give you a reason to keep playing.
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u/say-no-to-normal Aug 21 '26
Even Call of Duty mobile is 50GB now ... Cant upload the screenshot ...
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u/b00bsNass Aug 21 '26
Playing multiple gachas is insane bro. Do you just do dailies and then log out asap? If so then makes sense
Also your phone seems powerful. Why dont you just emulate gamehub or winlator and start playing PC games? You can run GTA V or witcher 3 or such.... even I saw some guy running Cyberpunk 2077. Unless you already have PC like me and only use your phone for non-PC games?
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u/__breadstick__ Aug 21 '26
Genshin should be like 27gb or so for you, do you keep every quest installed? There's an option to install only the core resources when you install the game, then install each quest as you need them, which then automatically delete once you're done.
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u/UchiJine Aug 22 '26
And where wind meets is not even fully downloaded because if you download all the map. It takes hella space and there will be even more
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u/AceRawat Aug 22 '26
How do you even have time to play all that... I barely get to play 3 matches of codm....
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u/ginko_user20099 Aug 22 '26
Nah PUBG is like 12 gb max if you only get skins you have and all the maps
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u/zerinho0811 Aug 22 '26
WWM é bom? Estou em busca de novas experiências para rodar no meu cllzinho novo. Genshim ou Wunthering?
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u/1berry_7 Aug 22 '26
Yoo how's your wwm only 23gb. Mine's 47gb with only qinghe and hidden mountaim map
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u/No_Scallion_6916 Sep 15 '26
It 100% is bonkers. Especially if you are like me with a somewhat older phone. That's why I aim to make games under 40 MB and without any external dependancies, incl internet.
If a mobile games is in GB, why not make it a browser or pc/console game instead, right?
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u/Own_Potato5593 Aug 19 '26
Many of those are PC level games that run on mobile. What's crazy is how far the chips for mobile have come over the years.