With NAND prices flying into the stratosphere, buying a large SSD has become a cold-sweat-inducing event, with even the cheapest 2 TB models now approaching $250 — and desirable performant models going for well beyond that. With no end to either memory or storage shortages in sight, the next best option for gamers is to save on used disk space — and the recently-upgraded Game Compressor utility is a fine tool for that end.
Depending on the game in question, savings can be massive, with ARK Survival Evolved reportedly going down from 169 GB to 91 GB (54% of the original size) and Crimson Desert slimming down by 32 GB. Not every game bears high compressibility, but if even just one of your titles goes down by tens of gigabytes, that's enough to install another. This is handy on most every PC, and even more so for handhelds and machines where disk space is at a premium.
