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I've used btrfs for gaming and deduping in particular helps a lot with steam prefixes since it's a lot of individual folders with similar files. I don't have hard data but the before and after comparison I've made after getting my deck from ext4 to btrfs left me more than satisfied. I'd guess compression doesn't hurt either, although again I don't have actual numbers.
Using BTRFS too. The only issue I've had with it w/r/t gaming was that huge game updates tended to take a lot of space in old snapshots, so I ended up putting my steam library in a non-snapshotted subvolume.
Right, that's a great tip! I usually use secondary, non snapshotted discs for storage so it didn't occur to me.
You can also just not use snapshots on your Steam dir, just make it a subvolume.