SNUG

AndrewMD5 / Jun 5, 2024 / Animation & Modeling, Audio Production, Design & Illustration, Photo Editing, Utilities, Video Production, Game Development

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SNUG is a friendly front-end for Windows' built-in NTFS compression. Compress files, apps, games, and project folders with a click — no command line required. Set it and forget it, with automatic compression for new files.

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What's new

SNUG 2.0

2026-06-15

SNUG has been rebuilt from the ground up. It's faster, much lighter, and smarter, with a fresh new look and a pile of fixes and improvements. • SNUG starts almost instantly now and takes a fraction of the space it used to — leaner and quicker all around. • Turn on automatic compression and SNUG quietly keeps new files compressed in the background, so your games stay small without you doing a thing. • Right-click any folder in Explorer and choose Compress with SNUG, or add folders yourself — it's not just for games anymore. • SNUG now lives in your system tray and keeps working in the background. It automatically eases off while you're on battery and stays light on your CPU. • A completely redesigned interface. Choose a compression level per game, and see exactly how much space you've reclaimed on each drive.

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• Fixed jobs that could get stuck, smarter handling of files that are in use, and a more dependable compression engine across the board. Cheers

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What players say

Mixed

62% positive, 68 reviews

Recommended16 hrs played

The negative reviews don't understand that some developers are better at optimising than others. Because it is a bloated mess anything running Unreal Engine is compressed up to %70. Other games like cyberpunk which is an optimised game only saves you 2GB. This program is for the bloated games.

23 found this helpful, 2026-06-15

Not recommended1 hrs played

Original Size: 128.02 GB Compressed Size: 127.67 GB 10 minutes to "compress" the game down 0.35 GB because almost all the files failed to compress

14 found this helpful, 2026-01-07

Recommended2 hrs played

I have a genuine feeling that those who left a negative view have no idea how compressing works. Most games, especially AAA games, already incorporate some form of compressing tool and SNUG/CompressorX serves as a way to compress anything the game doesn't by default. With Forza Horizon 6, I saved about 7 GB of storage space after compressing it with this tool. I ran the game, raced on a few circuits, and it never...

4 found this helpful, 2026-07-03

Not recommended79 hrs played

Doesnt really work anymore will only detect C drive regardless of where its installed there are better apps out there that are free