Gaming > Gaming Services How to Uninstall Steam Games Delete Steam games for more storage space By Tim Fisher Tim Fisher Facebook Twitter Senior Vice President & Group General Manager, Tech & Sustainability Emporia State University Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on December 17, 2021 Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Gaming Services Consoles & PCs Gaming Services Game Play & Streaming Mobile Gaming What to Know Open Steam on your computer and sign in to your account.Select Library > Games. Right-click a game. After verifying your data is backed up, choose Uninstall.Select Delete to uninstall the game from your computer. This article explains how to uninstall Steam games from your computer. It includes information on ensuring your data is backed up before deleting the game. How to Delete Steam Games Uninstalling Steam games frees up hard drive space on your computer. With the number of games you can get on Steam, it's no wonder that you've collected so many. Deleting Steam games doesn't mean that you lose them forever. Since Steam is a cloud-based service, uninstalling a game doesn't delete it from your account. You can reinstall games on your devices at any time even after deleting them from your computer. Here's how to uninstall Steam games: Open the Steam program and sign in to your account if asked to. Steam should be accessible through a shortcut on your desktop or wherever else your apps are kept, but if not, do a search for it with a file search tool. If you have trouble signing in, you can recover your Steam name or password by selecting I CAN’T SIGN IN. Select LIBRARY at the top, and then GAMES. Right-click the game you want uninstalled, and choose Uninstall. Before uninstalling a Steam game, you should ensure that any progress has been backed up. Depending on the game, it may or may not be automatically saved to your Steam account so that it can be restored if/when you reinstall the game. Titles that don't save progress online store game data here (copy the data somewhere safe): C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata, C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games, or C:\Users\[username]\Saved Games. Select DELETE on the prompt. Depending on the size of the game, you might see a progress window as it gets deleted. When the game uninstall is complete, the window you see above will disappear and the title will be removed from your list of Steam games. You can also move Steam games to another drive to free up disk space. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Subscribe Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit