If you plan to install VALORANT on your PC or console in 2025 and start (or restart) your grind to Radiant, one of the first things you’ll want to check is how much storage space it takes before clicking that bold red download button.
VALORANT remains one of the top tactical FPS titles, thanks to Riot Games’ consistent stream of content updates, balance changes driven by community feedback, and regular agent and map releases. However, this commitment to keeping the game fresh comes with a trade-off: a steadily increasing storage requirement since its launch in 2020.
If you’re wondering how much space VALORANT takes in 2025, along with its exact download and install size, here’s a quick breakdown of everything you need to know.
How big is VALORANT in 2025?
In 2025, the install size of VALORANT on PC is 49.4 GB, same as before the Unreal Engine 5 update. During the download process, the installer does its magic (file decompression, setting up Riot Vanguard, and more) to make the game ready for your PC to run. Once the installation is complete, you need to restart your device to get things up and running.
That said, 49.4 GB is just the download size. The disk space you need to store the game on your PC after installation is different. At the time of writing, VALORANT takes up 24.6 GB of storage space on a PC after installation. As promised, storage requirements have drastically reduced after the Unreal Engine 5 update (July 29). To give you an idea of what changed, just a few days before the engine transition, the game had recorded taking up a whopping 58.3 GB of disk space on my PC.
The figures are a bit different for consoles due to obvious platform differences. The install size of VALORANT on Xbox and PlayStation is approximately 30 GB in 2025, while it should occupy approximately 15 to 20 GB of storage space after the UE5 update.
How big are VALORANT updates?
On PC, VALORANT updates have install sizes of about five to six GB and take more storage space after installation. On consoles, the install and storage sizes are smaller. While regular updates normally take up to a couple of GBs, bigger patches, like the ones introducing new agents, require more space. I always leave around 10 GB of free space for VALORANT patches on my PC.
The Unreal Engine 5 update was an anomaly, being the largest update VALORANT has received since 2020. Riot had demanded 30 GB of free disk space (just for the patch) to deal with installation and decompression cache issues. Then again, it has sliced the game’s disk storage requirements by half, so no complaints here.
VALORANT system requirements in 2025
Unlike space, VALORANT’s system requirements have evolved little to none with time. That’s at least what the official Riot website has to say. But there have been significant changes for sure. The game no longer runs on older Windows versions, like Windows 7 and 8. Riot recently announced it has removed support for older versions of Windows 10 as well. On Windows 11, you’re required to enable TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot for the kernel-based Riot Vanguard anti-cheat to work properly.
You can access the full list of VALORANT’s official system requirements, as well as our recommended specs, in our guide here. If VALORANT doesn’t open or you get stuck on the loading screen after downloading the game or installing a patch, you can fix these hiccups easily with our guides.
