Battlefield 6 Presents Players With a Campaign Uninstall Button After They Beat It, Tells Them It’ll Save Space

EA and Battlefield Studios want players to know they are free to delete the Battlefield 6 campaign from their platform of choice after completing its story mode.

While many who hopped into Battlefield 6 after its October 10 launch quickly locked themselves away in its smorgasbord of multiplayer maps and modes, others dived straight into its new campaign. It’s a short shooter romp that spans nine missions and about five hours of gameplay, with some players, including leaker and X/Twitter user BobNetworkUK, beating it quickly enough to discover a pop-up window with an option to uninstall the story mode after it’s been completed.

The official recommendation first directs players to explore in-game challenges for unique unlocks tied to the single-player portion before offering an option to delete the component to “save space.” It even goes as far as to present an uninstall button as a convenient way to be rid of the mode entirely.

With 2021’s Battlefield 2042 ditching a traditional story mode in favor of multiplayer destruction, Battlefield 6 is the first to offer a mainline campaign since Battlefield V in 2018. Still, players have found themselves divided about the new story component, with some feeling it accurately captures the chaos of the series, while others complain that it does little to leave a mark in its short runtime.

IGN gave the Battlefield 6 campaign a 5/10 in our review last week. In the piece, we called it a “safe, dull reimagining of what Battlefield once was, rather than a bold reinvention of what it could be.” Like so many, we’re having a much better time with the Battlefield 6 multiplayer.

Those who move to uninstall after beating the campaign (or even before) could save about 15GB of storage space, or potentially even more after ditching relevant HD texture packs. That means those ready to wash their hands of the Battlefield 6 campaign will only need about 55GB of space left over to house its multiplayer offerings.

Battlefield 6 launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S last week. It’s since become the series’ biggest Steam launch, hitting a peak of more than 740,000 concurrent players, according to SteamDB. While some players moved to check out its standard multiplayer and campaign offerings, others managed to successfully rebuild Shipment, the classic Call of Duty map, in its Portal mode.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He’s best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).