Arrowhead Game Studios is considering dropping HDD support from the Helldivers 2 PC version, a senior company official has confirmed. The move is being evaluated as one of the measures to reduce Helldivers 2's massive installation size on PC.
The pre-release PC system requirements for Helldivers 2 mandated over 100GB of storage space. The actual install folder would drop to around 70GB after the initial download. However, subsequent updates kept inflating the game's installation size. As of late October 2025, the Helldivers 2 Steam page lists a 135GB storage requirement. At the same time, the PS5 version of the game grew from just under 25GB in February 2024 to approximately 35GB in September 2025. The Xbox Series X/S version, launched this August, is comparably compact.
Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani has now confirmed that the Swedish studio is considering dropping support for hard disk drives (HDDs) from the PC version of the game in order to try getting its ever-increasing installation size under control. The executive characterized this option as something that's "being looked into" in response to a fan question posted to the official Helldivers Discord server in late October 2025. Separately,...
