Any way to compress game files on linux? I know that all games vary, content vary and so on, but is there any things i can look out for in like an average steam game which I can compress, and the game can still run fine, tools or programs or anything?


If you have a fast CPU adding compression can actually improve performance. https://www.phoronix.com/review/btrfs-zstd-compress
with fast nvme not that much… not like the ‘olden days’ of msdos and stacker where it was actually noticeable on some systems.
Hmm, looks like it can be slower on write, but faster on read depending on the CPU and drive probably. Games mostly read files, so this might even improve performance.