What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
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.
Dave the diver. Game keeps so surprising me, its so good! 30 hours in and it feels like i just started, works flawless on the deck aswell.
BG3…soon. :)
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.
I’m hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend
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.
Grim Fandango! The Steam Deck is perfect for finally tackling my backlog of older games. Also finished 198X recently which was short but good.
198X seems cool. I tend to play lots of older games on my deck too, mostly old DOS/Windows releases which can run with Wine/Proton or Dosbox for me.
Yep, it’s a great throwback for sure.
Blasphemous right now. Plays excel·lent bar some issues with resolution. Changing resolution can result in the game freezing when doing an attack, and it keeps happening even if you relaunch the game. I found somewhere that shutting off and on the deck solves it, and it’s true.
As for gameplay having downed three bosses (+ the tutorial one at the start), it’s fun! Maybe too cryptic for my taste, I’ve had to open a guide a couple of times. But the gameplay it’s tight and challenging.
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Being able to pause and resume at any time and from wherever I’m taking my steam deck has been fantastic for the whole Yakuza series. It has kind of become my dedicated Yakuza machine, lol.
Lost judgment will be next!
Yeah, exactly! The Yakuza games are really bad about surprisingly holding you hostage. I was playing though Yakuza Like a Dragon and had a 1.5 hour dungeon/boss fight/cutscenes sequence with no save points in between, and the deck’s sleep function was absolutely crucial.
Just finished Lone Fungus and started Haiku the Robot. Both great little 2D metroidvanias.
I’ve just this evening started playing Hogwarts Legacy. Spent most of my time tweaking it to get it to run as well as I think it can do.
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
Track mania. It’s a little addictive. Though I’m not good enough to participate in the online events, yet.
I can’t stop playing brotato. I say I’ll do one more then another hour passes.
Steamworld Heist and Olli Olli World. They fit what I want to play on the Deck: bite sized, good for lounging, a little more simple than what I want to play when I’m sitting at my desktop.
All the steamworld games are SO GOOD. I can’t wait for Build later this year. The demo is already wonderful.
No joke, Steamworld Heist got me through the first two weeks of being a parent.