Modern digital game distribution makes buying and installing games easier than ever. If you play games on a PC, there is a very good chance you’re using Steam. But with many games requiring more and more storage space for all those HD textures and uncompressed audio tracks, most players don’t have space for every game on their hard drives. If you’re switching to buying games on the new Epic Games store, you might not even want your older collection of Steam games installed on your system at all, and Epic is quickly building up its own library of digital titles. Luckily, we’ll show you how to uninstall Steam games so you can clear space on your hard drive.
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Steam lets you uninstall and reinstall any game you’ve paid for whenever you want. The process is almost as easy as installing them in the first place. In this guide we’ll teach you how to uninstall Steam games, taking you through the process step by step.
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Uninstalling through Steam
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The quickest and easiest method to uninstall a game is through Steam itself.
Step 1: Open the Steam client and log in, if required.
Step 2: Click the “library” tab in the top navigation menu.
Step 3: Locate and right-click the game you want to uninstall in your library, which should open a drop-down menu. On that drop-down, click “uninstall.”
Step 4: Steam will confirm with you whether you want to completely delete the game. When you are ready, click the “delete” button.
The game will now be uninstalled. The game name will now appear grayed out in your Steam game list.
If you ever want to reinstall it, simply double-click the game’s name, or right-click and choose “install” from the pop-up menu. Then follow the on-screen instructions. To save space on your main drive, you could consider installing the game in a secondary location.
Uninstalling through Windows
If you would rather not uninstall your games directly through Steam, you delete the game at the system level. Much like any other Windows application, you can uninstall your Steam games through Windows’ own “Programs and Features” menu.
Although this process will still take you to the Steam interface for the final step, you might prefer this method if you’re cleaning out various parts of your system at once.
Step 1: Search for “programs and features,” or navigate to the “Control Panel” shortcut in the Start menu, and click the “uninstall a program” option under “programs.”
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Step 2: Find the game you want to uninstall. Listing every program by name or install date may help you find things quickly. When you’ve found it, click “uninstall” from the menu above, or right-click the game and click “uninstall” from the resulting menu.
Step 3: You will then be taken to the Steam interface. Log in, if needed. When presented with the final confirmation box, click “Delete” to finalize the uninstall. Your game will be deleted.
There is no way to reinstall a game purchased on Steam without using the Steam interface. If you want to reinstall the game at a later date, enter Steam, select the game from your library, and either double-click the game name. You can also right-click the game name, then select “install.” From there, simply follow the on-screen instructions.
Uninstalling manually
Although the above methods are the best ways to remove a game from Steam, you can also delete the game manually. This is the best way to ensure that the game has been removed from your system entirely, though it won’t remove the game from your Steam library, which may get confusing down the line.
Step 1: Navigate to your Steam installation folder. When running Windows 10, the default installation location is C:Program Files (x86)Steam.
Step 2: Open the “Steamapps” folder, followed by the “Common” folder.
Step 3: You should now see a list of game folders. Find the game you want to remove, then either select its folder and press the delete key on your keyboard or right-click the folder and choose “delete” from the resulting menu.
The game will now be removed from your computer. It may still show up as ‘white’ or installed, in your Steam library, but it won’t be playable without updating and reinstalling all of its respective files.
If you want to completely remove every mention of a game from your system, you may also need to delete its configuration and save files, which are typically located in either your “Saved Games” folder, “Documents” folder, or “AppData” folder in C:Users[YourUsername].
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Yesterday I purchased GTA V for the PC via Steam and downloaded it onto my laptop at work. When I got home to transfer the 65 GB worth of files to my main computer, I cleared up 65 GB of space on my SSD and have just enough room to fit those downloaded files onto a Steam folder that I created. However, Steam won't recognize the game as installed. I tried to click the 'Install' button for the game where it's currently pointed to the folder where I've copied all of this data, but after exiting Steam and opening it again, it's saying that there isn't enough room to install the game. I spent several hours looking up ways to solve this, but I haven't been able to so far.
Also, Is 65 GB enough space for this game, or will I need to clear up more room for it?
Edit: After following Ross's guide below, everything worked fine with the backup process!
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You'll need 130 GB of space, maybe a bit more, to copy the files in the manner you describe. Steam first checks to see if you have enough free space to install the game, then it checks to see what files have already been copied to the machine. So you'll need 65 GB of space to store the copied files and additional 65GB of free space just so Steam won't refuse to 'download' and install the game.
Probably the easiest way to work around this problem to use Steam's own backup and restore functionality to copy the game between computers. You'll need 65GB of free space on your home computer, and 65GB of space somewhere else. If you happen have a big enough portable USB drive, either a portable hard drive or USB key, than that would be ideal. Otherwise you can use a folder on your main computer and share it over the network. To perform the backup right-click on the game in your library and select 'Backup Game Files...'. To do the restore select 'Backup and Restore Games...' from the 'Steam' menu at the top left of client. Make sure to delete the Grand Theft Auto V files you've already copied to the home computer first.
(I've more detail of the backup and restore process in another answer.)
If you have 130 GB of space free on different hard drive on your home computer you can also create a secondary Steam library folder there, copy the GTA V files to secondary library and then 'install' the game to that folder.
You can do what Ross said, or if you have the WHOLE library folder with you, you can shut down steam and copy it over the on your current steam library. When you open steam, it should be there. (ps. You will need the GTA V folder ('SteamLibrarysteamappscommonGrand Theft Auto V') and the appmanifest_271590.acf file (SteamLibrarysteamappsappmanifest_271590.acf), if you don't have both, steam won't recognise it.)
Note: This is a bit harder than the other solution but this doesn't require 2x size.
Note 2: I did this several times and it works.
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I found another way, which is to to copy the game directory on 'Steamapps' » 'Common'. Just start installing the game and then pause (doesn't matter when) which will make Steam create a file named 'appmanifest_1234.acf' (number part will differ depending on the game) under the 'Steamapps' directory.
Open that file with a text editor and you will see there the game's name. Under that there's a line name 'StateFlags' '1026'. Change that number to '4', and voila! There you go, you complete the installation - simple as that.
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