Steam has a hidden feature hidden in its settings that allows you to manage all your installed games. if you want to see where a huge chunk of Call of Duty data is stored, you don't have to search through your PC folders. with the Steam Storage Manager

For some reason, the Steam Storage Manager is not in an intuitive place. To open it, you need to go into the Steam settings: from the Steam client, click on "Steam" in the upper left corner of the window, then click on "Settings" to open the settings. Next select "Downloads" and click on the confusingly titled "Steam Library Folder" to open the Storage Manager.

The Storage Manager is divided into tabs for each storage drive on your PC, where you will find your designated Steam folder. If you want to add another drive to the list, you can press the plus button on the right. I personally don't keep a ton of games hanging around on my PC if I don't actively play them, but for all those who are hoarding games just in case, you can see everything here without having to hunt around for drives.

Every game has a checkbox to uninstall or move to another drive. You can also get information on storage size, DLC storage size, and when each game was last played. Despite running around as Genshin's character trying to crash Virtual Rave, why do I still have VRChat installed? I don't, but I can.

For those dire times when a game doesn't work at all, the Steam storage manager can also repair entire folders instead of manually repairing games one by one. I can't think of any general reason why you would need to do this, but it might come up after a hard drive failure or an entire PC failure. To do this, select the three dots on the far right of the storage breakdown, then select "Repair Folder."

Steam's Storage Manager is not a groundbreaking technology, but it is a handy tool that allows you to move files around without having to drag them yourself. It was only introduced last year, so options may be added in the future; it would be neat to see a list of games installed on the Steam Deck, or an option to automatically move the least-played games to another drive, for example. But even with this limited functionality and simple visualization alone, it is a nice way to manage storage. I'm looking at a 48GB Elden ring right now and can't decide if I should erase it from the drive or keep it for the final DLC (opens in new tab). I think I will keep it, but now I know where to go if I need to make room for something else ...