That's extremely unlikely most games have saves in the kb's to mb's range, you'd need a hell of a lot of saves to take up 632GB.

I have 88 games installed and the total Steam size is 607GB that means the average size is just under 7GB's per game.

Are you looking at Other - they yellow bar in Steams storage manager? If you are that's all other files on your disk e.g your Windows installation if it's the C drive and not Steam files.

I am looking at the drive in Windows, not through steam. It is telling me there is 631 GB of data from steam on there.

Originally posted by Reiger:

I am looking at the drive in Windows, not through steam. It is telling me there is 631 GB of data from steam on there.

using a previous hard drive or is that new also ?

What games do you have installed there? I have a single game that takes up 300GB and others that are well over 100GB.

As mentioned, it is unlikely to be save game files for a few reasons. Primarily though, save files are not typically stored inside the Steam directory. Some are but I would say not most.

Originally posted by Manwith Noname:

As mentioned, it is unlikely to be save game files for a few reasons. Primarily though, save files are not typically stored inside the Steam directory. Some are but I would say not most.

Cloud saves are usually stored into the steam directory, in steam\userdata\<ID>
There were other reports in the past months about Steam Cloud malfunctioning and downloading all the saves to the userdata folder, even for games not installed.

I can only talk from experience of my own library. Nearly all my save games end up in %appdata% folders or Documents. Very few of them use the Steam userdata folder.

Edit: The bulk of the userdata folder for me is screenshots and Steam controller configs. I have one game that actually saves userdata in the Steam userdata folder.

As i've already said, cloud games mostly saves in userdata. Non cloud games or autocloud games can save everywhere.

And "as I've already said", most games I have do not save anything to the Steam userdata folder. They use more typical system folders or the game install folder and Steam uploads them from there.

Originally posted by Manwith Noname:

What games do you have installed there? I have a single game that takes up 300GB and others that are well over 100GB.

As mentioned, it is unlikely to be save game files for a few reasons. Primarily though, save files are not typically stored inside the Steam directory. Some are but I would say not most.

Curiosity digression: What game is 300GB?

Ive got plenty over 100, but nothing Im aware of that big, unmodded.

Microsoft Flight Simulator with all content and world updates and some addons. I think without the addons it's closer to 270GB.

Originally posted by Tharon:

There were other reports in the past months about Steam Cloud malfunctioning and downloading all the saves to the userdata folder, even for games not installed.

That may be the case, but there are limits on the maximum amount that can be allocated to cloud saves, most games are set to 100mb's or less, with the odd outlier (Marvel's Midnight Suns for example) setting there's to 100GB, even though a full number of saves is in the mb's range. But only a small percentage game will have cloud saves that get near 100mb let alone 100GB.

The OP seems to have assumed the issue is cloud saves and should really be checking folder sizes to see if that really is the issue. There are several programs out there that allow you to right click and get a list ordered by size to make it easy to check.

Originally posted by Reiger:

I just bought a new pc and installed steam. No games installed yet, and I am browsing through my disc drives and I notice that steam is taking up 632 GB of data on my one drive. From what I understand these are cloud sync saves. I am not sure how there is that much data for the 4 games listed in this directory. If I delete them, will this be detrimental? I need to free up space, as that is 1/4 of my storage already on a clean computer with nothing on it yet.

Any help or explanation would be much appreciated

Go the folder and look to see what is actually taking up the space. Once you know what the data is then you can figuire out what to do about it

Just to clarify, I did not have any games installed as it was a new computer, only downloaded steam. New hard drive and everything. I did check the files, and it was almost like steam was copying all the content from 4 different games into it, one being ARK: Survival Evolved. Although, the exe files did not work. Very strange, but I just deleted it all and will see if there are consequences to that.

Resurrecting this post as I'm researching an issue as to why my computer C: drive suddenly has zero bytes of data available. Using SpaceSniffer and its still "finding" files in my "GameSaveManager_Backups" folder from Steam at over 75GB of data. I only have one game installed on my computer, but it appears to be saves from games I haven't played in over 10 years, and this computer is less than a year old... Since games should have cloud backups, I'm going to try to delete the folder and see what happens.

I'll clarify and that I created a .rar compression to backup that folder just in case and moved it to a different location, but definitely a bizarre issue to suddenly start downloading all sorts of random save files. I'll keep an eye on it in the future and will see how steam uses it. I can't seem to find a way to change that location to a different default location.