DECEPTIVELY SMALL

is an enormous PC game—at least if you own and , which can import to bring the entire trilogy into a single package. That sounds like a recipe for an install size big enough to make an SSD cry, because , with the first game’s levels imported, is currently 149 gigabytes. is one of the mightiest storage hogs on PC, second only to . But will actually shrink instead of grow, retroactively optimizing the first two games into a dramatically smaller package. How did IO Interactive manage to halve the install size? We asked the developer to break down the technology and techniques it used to