PC gamers are running out of SSD storage space fast, according to latest data

An ever-growing game collection is a problem for your storage, but it might be bigger than we all realised. The June 2025 Steam hardware survey has some interesting nuggets of data that point to gamers not having much space on their drives, leaving some tough decisions to be made – which games to keep, and which ones to trash?

Jokes aside, it’s no wonder that Steam gamers are seeing their free storage capacity come under strain, with the biggest budget games just taking up more and more disk space (we’re looking at you, Call of Duty). It’s not as if we’re short of good storage options, as our best gaming SSD guide shows, but this hardware survey suggests that gamers aren’t necessarily filling up their PCs with extra SSDs to cope with the demand.