What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
Played again The Outer Worlds and DLCs a couple weeks back and preferred the deck experience over my first play-through on the XBox. Currently playing High on Life and I’m not really convinced, way to linear and controls are… not really optimal.
All time favorite: No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley, Witcher3
Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.
Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.
Tiny text and 40s eyes cause me to want to play a lot of stuff docked, but Hollow Knight was a fantastic experience on the Deck.
Path of Exile. It’s been great on the Steam Deck and I’m going through the last few days of this league. Once that finishes I’ll start putting a lot more time into Street Fighter 6 (with the compact portable hitbox controller I made) and some Eldest Souls on the side.
Thanks to the Baldur’s Gate 3 hype, decided to finally jump into a CRPG and went with Divinity Original Sin 2 DE after trying Pillars of Eternity DE. I tried before, but didn’t have the right mindset.
Loving DOS2 now!
It’s a classic. I’m going to revisit it after my BG3 playthrough. I never did complete it previously.
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Morrowind.
Only just got my Deck. Still in the process of doing upgrades and mods. But while I have been testing my overclock and cooling mods and whatnot, I have put a few hours into Elden Ring and it’s awesome on the Deck. The load times are insanely fast compared to my actual high-end gaming laptop. Looking forward to starting a new save on the Deck, after I have everything setup the way I want it. Waiting on a 2tb ssd to replace the 1tb that I just put in the a few days ago. Need to get that swap done before I can finish the cooling mod.
I’ve also put a couple of hours into the Demon Slayer game while testing. That game runs at a locked 60 fps, and plays amazingly.
Just finished up Assassin’s Creed 2 - my all-time favorite game but first time playing since I had my Xbox 360. I remembered the free-running/parkour being a bit finicky but this time around it was just infuriating. Also had a hard time with some of the controls being bound correctly (navigating the map being the worst offender). I still recommend the game because the campaign, the modern day story, and the historical conspiracies sub-plot are just too good IMO. I just also found a good chunk of my time spent yelling at Ezio to jump where I wanted him to go.
Started up Dinkum for some casual play - just have an hour or so played but seems to be good so far. Not sure how much I’ll play of it - I get kind of bored with this style of game. Looking for some pointers with getting started. (Same thing happened with Stardew Valley for me)
Spyro Reignited has been really fun to pickup for quick play sessions. I do get more stutters than I’d expect on the Deck when loading levels. Think my graphics are all set to medium so prob need to tinker to get those smoothed out. Definitely recommend this game though.
I have a Diablo 4 addiction. It runs surprisingly well on my Deck. Only problem is it requires the internet, so I can’t play it anywhere outside of the house.
I’m baffled by how poorly Diablo 4 handles “mediocre” connections. I have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while and I’m even able to stream GeForce Now reasonably well, but I run into lag spikes on Diablo 4.
I don’t think it’s a network problem. I think Diablo has a memory leak that causes issues that are especially noticeable on the Steam Deck. I’ve heard it’s getting patched out soon, but not sure where I got that info from. One of my Discord friends I think…
Control, after finishing quantum break and Alan wake before.
Control is really good, I beat it earlier this year.
I have Alan Wake and Quantum Break in my library, going to try to play them later once I catch up on some other parts of my backlog.
Both good games as well and they run flawless on the SD. It’s also fun to compare the games side by side and see the progress (mostly).
I got the Deck from Summer Sale and since then I’ve been playing:
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Been waiting to play this one for years, but haven’t had Playstation since PS2 or proper desktop PC in years. SD fulfilled all my expectations, never getting a desktop PC anymore!
- Halls of Torment
- Enjoyed Vampire Survivors on Xbox, enjoying this one
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Seems really “meh”, so played only couple of hours.
- Horizon Zero Dawn
So, I got some games from the sale and slowly started playing them a little…
Slay the Spire seems to be quite liked, but it’s not really my thing. Beat the game with three of the four characters I have access to and it still hasn’t really “clicked”. If somebody could explain to me what makes this game so (supposedly) great, maybe I’d be able to appreciate it a little better?
I also got Redout 2, because I really enjoyed the first part and thought the second should be at least as good. So far I like it, seems like a graphics upgrade and some gameplay enhancements from the first part. However, with ai assist disabled, the difficulty curve seems to be brutally steep. Also, even though I have only played like 8 tutorials and 3 campaign tracks so far, I have already had some issues with clipping through the course after jumps, which might turn into a rather annoying trait if it remains an issue. Still, would recommend. It’s a beautiful antigravity racer with terrific “car” mechanics.
Apart from that, I got the gog version of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri running (although the videos don’t work). It’s kind of my comfort game which I keep returning to.
Regarding StS, I think you’ve given it a fair shot if you’ve completed it with three characters already. If you still want to press on, then I found the fourth character really fun and engaging. I didn’t try that many difficulty levels (think I made it to 4 with the Ironclad), but I really liked the daily challenge as well to mix it up and quickly feel powerful in my runs.
I always think of Slay the Spire as my gateway drug into other deckbuilding games such as Monster train and Griftlands, so if you’ve enjoyed the card aspect of it, maybe give one of those a shot? (Or stay clear of them if you hated that part)
I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky, but just picked up Shadows of Doubt and have been having a blast with that.
Shadows of Doubt has a weird bug
where loading into the initial menu takes several minutes instead of a few seconds.Edit: Update came out today that fixed this! Haven’t figured out why yet, but the developer is working on a fix and the game runs pretty decently outside of that. Using a community control scheme is recommended because the default controller scheme leaves something to be desired.I’ve just wishlisted Shadows of Doubt. Seems interesting.
Fanatical actually has it on sale right now for 30% off. Biggest sale on steam so far is just a 20% sale, so the fanatical deal is pretty good.
darkest dungeon, mechanicus, the dishonnered series, witcher, ff7 crisis remaster, smash bros, random pokemon hacks, deus ex hr
I did limbo, guacemelee, inside. I started a cyberpunk game too, but switched to platform then.
Emulating Final Fantasy X. It plays really well, especially with save states and 2x speed.
