- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 19 August 2026 - 09:25:53 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
For far too long, Retro Puzzles carried an installation size that simply did not match the game. We refused to accept 31 GB as the price of preserving its high quality artwork. We returned to the asset pipeline, tracked down the compression fault responsible for that weight, and rebuilt the system around it. Fixing the problem required the entire puzzle collection to be processed again under a corrected, high quality compression profile. That is why this update replaces such a large portion of the existing data: the fault was buried in the foundation, so the foundation had to be rebuilt. Retro Puzzles now occupies the space it should have required from the beginning: approximately 8.2 GB instead of 31 GB, which means around 74% less disk space, with the same high visual quality of the artwork preserved. The collection was never too large. Its compression was broken. And now it is fixed. ...