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I am considering purchasing a Steam game. I am on a limited download limit, I was wondering how to find out how large a game download is.
I understand I can purchase the game, download a portion and resume at a later date.
The game I am interested in is : Ace Combat Assault Horizon – Enhanced Edition
I see there are minimum and recommended settings, however, this does not include the download size of the game.
I know this is a rather old question, but for anyone still having this issue:
There is the option to choose which DLC content should be downloaded and installed in the steam beta client. Sign up for the beta, switch you client to beta mode and then under the properties of your game, you can install / uninstall each piece of DLC individually.
Go to the game's store page and check the URL. The last number in the URL is the application ID. All the store URLs are in format store.steampowered.com/app/APPID, so for Wasteland 2, the URL is http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/, and appID 240760.
Another reliable way is to search for the program on steamdb, which will show you the info for games removed from the store as well. The appid is clearly labelled in the search results.
Best Answer
At the moment, it is not possible to know this before you actually bought it. The download size does also differ greatly from the recommended hard disk space needed, due to all downloads being compressed and how much compression can be applied also differs from game to game. If a game already uses compressed files for their assets, there is not much Steam can do. For example, "The Secret World" is 40.2GB on my HDD and was only 18.5GB in download.
However, the recommended need for hard disk space is a good indicator of the download size. You can often half it. But as I said, it is only an indicator.