As amobile gamer, you’ve had your fair share of frustration with games that couldn’t be accommodated by your phone. Not everybody has phones that can shoulder heavy graphic needs, and most of us have scarce mobile space, which has us deleting all the videos and photos we have to make more room.
But we all have games we love too much, even if each of its updates makes our phones overheat a little more. If you plan on playing these games, be warned: you might have to delete other apps or throw your phone away altogether for a new one.
File size varies, with updates frequently changing the exact size. Additionally, the app size listed on an app store page just accounts for the game download. We’ve listed the initial download size for each game, as well as highlighted how big they can become.
Updated June 08, 2025 by Jacqueline Zalace:Mobile games get bigger each year. As such, we’ve updated this list with a few more mobile games with the biggest file size. Additionally, we’ve highlighted the initial download size of each game.
PUBG has been running on mobile for a while now, so it’s no surprise that a lot of data could be accumulated through updates. Upon initial installation, you’ll need 4GB of free storage, but to play the game in its entirety, you’ll need a lot more.
One player noted that PUBG Mobile took up a whopping 60GB on their phone.
PUBG is a must for first-person shooter players, and it sports all sorts of wacky skins, whether it be for your character or your rides. But be prepared to have sufficient space for it since it does consume more over time.
16Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle
Maybe you’re a lot more into old-school anime, and you’re a fan of arcade-style games. Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle fits this bill, and there’s a lot of fun watching Goku fight in cool action sequences. But even as a Dragon Ball Z fan, you’ll be somewhat reluctant to download this game with its 8-10GB file size in total.
Or maybe no file size is too great for you when it comes to your favorite anime, and you’re already scrubbing 8GB of data out of your phone to make way for this game.
This visual feast of an open-world game is recommended at a minimum of 10GB of free space in your phone. Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds asks for 1.8GB of your mobile space at first glance in IOS, but with its expansions and updates, it isn’t surprising to hear that it will end up requiring a lot of space in your phone.
If that doesn’t discourage you from playing the game, we can’t blame you since it shows a distinct style that hasStudio Ghibli’s fingerprintsall over it, from its animation to its music.
For a game that’s been out for a while, it might surprise that Life is Strange: Before the Storm takes up at least 10GB of storage. Instead of following Max in the story, you play through 16-year-old Chloe Price, who becomes Rachel Amber’s friend. Each decision matters in the game and has consequences that affect the narrative of the game.
The storage space is definitely worth giving up if you’re a Life is Strange fan and want a prequel to the original game starring Max. It’s also relatively shorter to finish, taking a total of 13 hours of gameplay to complete the game.
Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you; Wuthering Waves has a download file size of 44.8 GB according to its page on the Apple app store. It goes without saying that this is massive, but it makes sense considering the open-world setting of this game.
Overall, Wuthering Waves is great if you are a fan of games like Genshin Impact, as they both provide anopen-world, gacha experiencewith wonderful art and a compelling storyline.
Tower Of Fantasy is an open-world RPG takes place in a future timeline, where humans are driven out of Earth due to dwindling resources off to a planet named Aida. In this futuristic sci-fi world, you wake up with your memories wiped in an Astra Shelter.
By now, you’ve probably noticed that RPG games with an open-world setting require a lot of space for them to work flawlessly on your mobile device, which is a big but worthwhile sacrifice if you love the game.
As invested as you are in Kiana, Raiden, and Bronya’s stores as valkyries in training, seeing 10-18GB of your storage gradually wiped away due to updates and events can be painful for anybody who has so little storage left.
That’s part of the pains of being in love with Honkai Impact 3rd, and despite the huge file size, you can’t seem to let go because you’re in too deep within the story and have collected way too many battlesuits to abandon your account. If you haven’t started yet, it’s never too late to start playing.
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This game about aliens and invasions will invade your phone storage, demanding a big chunk of free space to avoid installation issues. But if you want a game that gives you nightmare fuel for the year 2035 being invaded by aliens who have full control of the human civilization, then you should go for this great turn-based strategy game and attempt to fight against said aliens.
It’s also a good buy since you’re buying XCOM 2: War of the Chosen and four other DLCs as a bundle in this collection.
This MMOARPG that takes place sometime between Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction and Diablo 3 will eat up around 20GB of your storage. Diablo Immortal follows what happened after Tyrael destroyed the Worldstone and how Skarn is trying to patch the pieces of the Worldstone in order to ensure Eternal Conflict.
Diablo Immortal is notably one of the most downloaded games and doesn’t disappoint in delivering, especially in its combat and overall gameplay. Although it did receive mixed criticism, it’s still popular as ever, and you should check out for yourself whether this game does live up to its hype.
The second Hoyoverse game on this list is Honkai: Star Rail. This turn-based RPG is fun and detailed, and compared to its predecessor, this game’s spaces are limited in exploration. But even the lack of areas to explore doesn’t save this game from huge on the phone, with some noting that it’s over 50 GB.
Not everybody can accommodate most of the Hoyoverse games on their phones, so you may have to choose which Hoyoverse game is worthy of being on your phone.
