# What games do you never delete from your system (PC or console)? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [November 19, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176 "2022-11-19T00:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/21 "2022-11-21T21:32:02Z")
Skyrim and Fallout 4. Yep. I’m there. Also, I like XCOM 2. Great game. It’s nice to visit but you can live in Skyrim and Fallout. And I can’t tell hardly any difference between XCOM and XCOM 2. . . they’re very much the same game. I’m not sure what I’m missing. XCOM is every bit as good and XCOM 2 to me. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/22 "2022-11-21T22:34:58Z")
_Master of Orion_ and _Civ2_. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/23 "2022-11-21T23:14:35Z")
I played MOO2 and liked it a lot. Ever give it a try? ---
**Author:** ![Bashorian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bashorian/32/3546_2.png) [@Bashorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bashorian)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/24 "2022-11-22T05:12:12Z")
Skyrim, a ColecoVision emulator for Mousetrap and Ladybug, various iterations of Sonic and Mario Bros. Fallout New Vegas may get there. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/25 "2022-11-28T22:51:11Z")
_Don’t Starve_, _Cities: Skylines_, and _Planet Coaster_ tend to find their way onto my machines and stay forever. _World Box_, and _Carrion_ usually make the cut because they are games I love that are extremely small, i.e. under 200MB, and will run on pretty much anything (minimum requirements: 64-bit processor, 1GB RAM, integrated graphics no problem). ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/26 "2022-11-29T00:22:13Z")
Wreckfest is a freaking hoot! I still laugh like an idiot during a race with 1 dozen RVs going around a figure-8 track! As far as games that are permanently installed, EllisDee nailed it…I don’t have anything permanently installed. Not enough room to keep things installed if I’m not going to play them for a month or two, and there are other games that can use the space. If space wasn’t an issue, I suppose I’d still have every game I’ve ever installed still installed. I could list games that I keep going back to for years, and reinstall when I want to play them again, but that’s not the question. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/28 "2023-03-22T11:41:44Z")
When Windows 7 went away, so did all the original Windows games; hearts, solitaire, spider solitaire, etc. That was unacceptable so, courtesy of some computer wiz, I found the original Windows games on line adapted for Windows 8. They still work for Windows 11, so I’m good to go. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176/29 "2023-03-22T17:09:12Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > If space wasn’t an issue, I suppose I’d still have every game I’ve ever installed still installed. That’s what I was thinking, but have started to change my tune. If I did have unlimited space and so could install every game in my library, I don’t think I would. The headache of steam wanting to update different games every time I turned on the computer would start to annoy me. On reddit there was discussion about a 16 TB spinning hard disk and the value it has. This counterpoint was brought up in response to being able to install your entire game library. If you had a dozen terabytes of steam games installed, you might never finish updating. Especially on a spinning drive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-do-you-never-delete-from-your-system-pc-or-console/975176.md?page=1)