Show Game File Size in LaunchBox

📋 Summary

Display the total file size for each game in LaunchBox based on its associated files or folders.

❗ Problem

LaunchBox doesn’t currently show how much disk space a game takes up. For users managing large libraries—especially across multiple drives or on space-limited systems—there’s no easy way to identify which games are using the most storage.

💡 Proposal

Add support for calculating and displaying game size directly in LaunchBox.

Suggestions:

• Display game size in the game details pane.

• Add a new column in list view for file size.

• Include game size as a filter or sort option in playlist and search tools.

• Optionally, support rescanning file size manually or automatically when launching games or refreshing metadata.

✅ Benefits

• Helps manage limited storage on handhelds or SSDs.

• Makes it easy to find and archive large games to free up space.

• Adds a helpful datapoint for sorting, filtering, and organizing libraries.

• Useful for creating size-based playlists (e.g. “under 1GB games” or “largest games installed”).

📌 Example Use Cases

• Sort a platform by game size to find space hogs.

• Create a playlist of “Quick Play” games under 500MB.

• Clear space by identifying and archiving the top 10 largest games.

🧠 User Comments

“The more info about a game, the better! Would be great to sort by size when managing my Steam library or drive space.”

– Retrofrogg

“Would be handy to know what Steam games I can rotate in/out when storage is tight.”

– DJ_GLiTCH