Quest Techie: Save Game Management (or Surviving 64GB Quest Storage)

The eternal question when buying an Oculus Quest: Do I go 64GB or 128GB? At the time of writing, this latter is 20% more — an extra $100 you could be spending on games. Obviously a lot of folks go with 64GB — but what happens when it is full? If you uninstall games will your save data be safe? If not, what can I do to protect it?

Introduction

It can be a trying decision to make a call on how much storage you’ll need for a device you have nothing but passing familiarity of. After all, if you knew how big the “average” game or app is — you could extrapolate that logically into “How many games can I install?” But, wait — we all know most devices that claim to have a certain amount of storage (hard drives, mobile devices) never have that much actually FREE when you go to start putting your own content on there.

Since I didn’t check the free space before I started installing everything (and oddly, I couldn’t find that number anywhere on the internet) I can’t tell you how much free space comes out of the box.

What I can tell you is what *I* have installed on my 64GB Oculus Quest (with just under 2GB free). This is a big list, so scroll down if you get bored. I’m pulling these names from their Android package names, so my apologies if they aren’t perfect. Note: These are Quest, Go, GearVR and sideloaded games.

• Beat Saber (with 120 custom songs)
• Relix Coaster