Product guide
How Games is designed to work.
Reclaim Space
Tensor Archive Games discovers supported Steam libraries read-only, estimates the vault and temporary space required, creates an exact archive, verifies it independently and only then offers the supported Steam removal flow. The source installation is never changed in place while the archive is being created.
Download & Vault
Steam downloads and verifies the official title. Games observes the completed installation, creates the exact archive and keeps the compact local vault after Steam removes the installed copy. The comparison is against keeping the game installed or downloading it again later—not against the zero bytes present before the download.
Restore & Play
Games verifies the archive and available space, restores into private staging, checks every restored byte again, and hands the result back to Steam. Steam remains responsible for ownership checks, verification, official updates and execution.
Archived updates
Always Updated is planned as an opt-in capability of the public product. When Steam updates a game on any active opted-in client, Games identifies and verifies the changed bytes. The active clients with Always Updated enabled share only those verified bytes, moving compatible archives to the new exact build without redistributing the whole game. Steam remains the official update and ownership authority.
Launcher integrations
Steam is the currently prepared integration and is planned with the Windows release. Epic Games Store, GOG GALAXY, Xbox PC, EA app, Ubisoft Connect, Battle.net and HTC VIVEPORT are compatibility targets marked Coming soon. NVIDIA GeForce NOW is also a planned cloud-library bridge, but it is not a local archive source: it syncs existing store libraries and streams remote game sessions. Each integration keeps its own store, account, entitlement, update and launch controls.
What 75.74% less SSD space means
The flagship number is one research result: a full owned modified Assetto Corsa installation with 39,693 files and 61,834,699,268 source bytes stored in 15,002,824,704 durable bytes. It is not a promise that every game or Assetto Corsa installation reaches the same reduction. Each title will receive its own estimate, confidence level and verified physical result.
What Games never does
- It does not bypass DRM, anticheat or launcher entitlement.
- It does not use Steam depot keys or present itself as a game store.
- It does not mark a game installed or playable without the official runtime.
- It does not claim a partial or unverified archive as safe.
Current availability
The public download page contains only the native Windows, macOS and Linux applications. Meta Quest and compatible standalone Meta Horizon OS devices, plus Steam Deck and SteamOS, are integrations activated inside Tensor Archive Games rather than separate application downloads. The current and planned launcher targets are listed in the integrations section.