Can’t stop playing Slay The Spire 2, so gooood
Everything is Crab. A roguelite evolution game where the challenge is to out survive the other creatures. Don’t let the cute graphics fool you. It’s a lot of fun and the challenge ramps up quite a bit as you proceed through the difficulty levels.
My answer is a bit cheating, because its emulation of Playstation 1 via RetroArch. The game is Dark Deception 3: Dark Delusion. It looks good, and the soundtrack is phenomenal. The manual is not needed, because the game teaches with tutorials. If you want, have a look at screenshots to get an idea how the game looks. Overall game seem to be okayish in gameplay, but makes up with an unusual game concept and good soundtrack.
The game is an Tactical Action Adventure game, with levels to pass. So its more a linear game with stages. Controls are not great, more like tank controls from third person. The idea is to run around, setup traps and attacks and with one of the buttons “use” them at the right time. The character is basically a witch. Bring up the “map” to set traps for the associated button. I’m quite early on, so not sure if I will ever finish this. If you choose to play this game, be aware that there is no autosave and you have to save manually after each stage.
Dust, the Twilight princess port, but I just got to the temple of time and am hard crashing every time I put the master sword in. So I’m going to find something else now. Maybe elden ring again?
They’ve published a bunch of updates, with pretty detailed change logs. Have you checked to see if they addressed that issue?
I haven’t got nearly that far. It’s an absolutely amazing recomp and I love that it exists, but as I’m fiddling with the controls and the camera and the combat I’m just thinking “Breath of the Wild exists, why am I doing this?”
I haven’t, but I’m also fairly lazy and without a robust log, I figured it was a one off bug. But thank you for reminding me that the smartest among us need reminders of oversight.
The last few times I was on I was preoccupied with Slay The Spire 2 and Audiosurf 2 for Steam games specifically.
Otherwise, I have slowed down on it since I’m in post game, but I was busy with a fun pokemon fan game ( Pokémon Copper ) in the Azuri region.
Yeah, I haven’t played on it much outside maybe those 3 games.
Lots of No Man’s Sky and a bit of Paralives. Formerly I also enjoyed a ton of Euro Truck Sim 2 and Deep Rock Galactic on the Steam Deck. And some 11/10 story exploration games that sadly can only be played once: Outer Wilds and Tacoma.
Fae Tactics and LOK Digital are the new ones.
Most likely will not finish either game.
I’ve been trying to wrap up Trails Of Cold Steel III. I think I’m 80 hours in and near the last chapter.
Slay the spire 2. Still addicted.
It’s so much harder than the first game. I have yet to win a run with either star guy or doom skeleton. Still, great sequel so far.
Mostly replaying older games this month. One new pickup is “Return of the Obra Dinn”, which looks pretty interesting. I think it will be (eventually) a fun puzzle to put together, but I’m not sold on the on-boarding process of being pushed from one memory to another. Kinda feels like the game is dictating the pace early on, and I feel like that could have been handled better. But I’ve heard enough good things about it that I expect I’ll enjoy it a lot by the end.
Hope you find it an enjoyable experience. Make sure you play with headphones.
I found Curse of the Golden Idol gave a similar hit as Return of the Obra Dinn.
Did you mean Case of the Golden Idol? Looking up Curse doesn’t bring up anything.
Yes, sorry. It is Case of the Golden Idol. Thanks for the correction.
I really enjoyed Outer Wilds, and Obra Dinn came up in some recommendations I read based on that. While it’s true that the games share a limitation that you can only play them “properly” one time, they aren’t yet hitting the same itch for me.
Also grabbed Chants of Sennaar awhile back, which I think may be similar to Obra Dinn.
Nothing really hits the same as Outer Wilds unfortunately. I’ll second Curse of the Golden Idol as another game to check out. Similar to Obra Dinn, but I liked it better in some ways.
I fucking loved Obra Dinn it was-RING DING DING DINGDINGDING DING DING DING.
I’ve been playing a lot of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. As someone who enjoyed the Zero Escape games but had never played a Danganronpa, I was unsure about this one, but the demo really gripped me. It plays great on the Deck. The back buttons have been nice for skipping through the VN portions since my A button has gotten loud and clicky.
That game is really long and I’m trying to pace myself though, so I’ve now also picked up Mina the Hollower. I didn’t like the demo, and am not a fan of the retro aesthetic, but I downloaded it to try it out based on the glowing reviews. I don’t know what all they changed from the demo, but I was hooked almost right away. It’s hard starting out, but satisfying and snappy to play, and the GBC-style graphics are better (more readable) on the smaller screen of the Deck than on a TV.
I’m addicted to Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor on Deck.
Great game, although these days I mostly play it on my phone.
Last month I finished up Transiruby, which is a really fun and breezy Metroidvania. The art style and the incredible chiptune soundtrack gave me big Axiom Verge vibes, despite being quite tonally different.
My June project is getting TotK emulation working satisfactorily, which finally happened last night after far too much trial and error. I know Nintendo’s lawyers have made everyone scared but the amount of vagueposting around this subject is maddening. This means I can likely sell my Switch as it was the only game I had left to play. It also means I have to play the first 10 hours of the game again…
Do you mind sharing your TotK setup? I never finished it because my kids always want the switch, and I find the ergonomics really uncomfortable to play for long
Sure, with the caveat that everyone’s definition of “playable” is different.
I am using the latest Eden AppImage and a 1.4.2 ROM. I didn’t change anything in Eden besides controller setup and increasing the RAM to 8GB (this has to be done in the game config). This gets you fps in the teens and 20s.
Then I ran the NX Optimizer AppImage. I used the Steam Deck preset and chose the 2nd of the 2 TotK entries on the game menu. The only change I made was the lower shadows to 512x. I don’t know if that did anything… the shadows do look pretty bad. Then I clicked “Apply”. Note that if you have multiple emulators, NX is going to try to figure out which one to apply to. I’d get rid of anything that’s not Eden AND the settings folders that are in
~/.local/share.NX adds a “mod” entry you can view and turn on and off in the game settings. It also installs something called UltraCam, and you’ll know that because it changes the game opening and adds UI elements. Now I have no clue what any of this stuff is doing. It’s poorly explained… Like is it just modifying emulator settings you could do yourself? Is it doing something to the ROM? No clue. You can make adjustments to UltraCam settings by hitting both triggers combined with left stick click. I changed resolution to 900p, and turned on FSR. But it’s unclear how much that helped.
Anyway, the result is a max, locked 30 fps. It will dip while shaders are caching and when you first use ultrahand and in villages and other areas with fire. It is not smooth by any means but it’s “mostly smooth”. Usually in the open world and in shrines it’s stable. There’s also some banding from what I assume is anti-aliasing, but I don’t see any turned on in any setting I can locate, so who knows.
Like I said, it’s good enough for me. Like you the ergonomics of the Steam Deck are so much better than Switch that I’ll take the compromise here.
Thanks! I’ll give it a shot one of these days.
@Fubarberry I just beat #CostumeQuest & #CatQuest over the week.
Now I’m thinking about continuing Costume Quest 2 or Death’s Door.
