Fucking skyrim never dies!
My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.
To be fair, it was a really fun game. They did a great job with it. In fact, I’ve been itching to play it again.
Linked is an image of text. It’s bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:
Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- ELDEN RING
- DAVE THE DIVER
- Stardew Valley
- Vampire Survivors
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Brotato
- Fallout 4
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Slay the Spire
- Hades
- HoloCure - Save the Fans!
- Remnant II
- Halls of Torment
At the bottom it does say “…by hours played” indicating it’s in ranked order.
“top 20 by hours played” doesn’t specify order though, does it? Sure, it’s expected. But not explicit. I guess you expect “20 most played games” otherwise?
thank you. no way im going on twitter even for a second.
Thankfully OP linked to an imgur screenshot - I didn’t have to visit the Twitter source.
Halls of Torment
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
glad to see it sneaking up on the list here, looking forward to updates
I’m surprised too! Feels like this game came out of nowhere and still has lots of room to grow, good for the devs.
Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.
I’ve been playing it since it launched, I’ll replay it until Geralt isn’t cool anymore.
shoutout to all the brotato mains
I really gotta fuckin buy that
Old is gold
There’s my 80+ hours of Stardew Valley in the past week lol
Making a difference!!!
80 hours in a week?
Stardew is a full time job
Company I worked for committed seppuku, figured I’d find a way to relax
Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old
Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It’s OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it’s OK to play older games.
It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
-Baldur’s Gate 3
-Dave the Diver
-Armored Core 6
-Holocure
-Remnant 2If I’m counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years
Yeah, I didn’t search. Just did the ones I immediately recognized as recent big budget ones.
It’s the Steam Deck. Older games are gonna run better.
Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.
Glad to see Stardew Valley in the list 😊
I’ve been happily adding to Dave the Diver’s numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.
It is amazing how every time you think “surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer” it fires off another bonkers event.
Yup, never ceases to amaze me! If with no context you’d described to me everything the game throws at you, I’d straight up think it’d never work but, amazingly, it all somehow fits together nicely. Hell, the base roguelite + management sim premise is wild enough on its own lol.
Very much looking forward to whatever they come up with next!
Gotta assume those BG3 Steam Deck numbers are gonna tank as people get into acts 2 and 3. Act 1 runs quite well on deck, but no amount of low settings or disabled features provides an acceptable level of performance.
I’m on act 3. The performance level is acceptable to me. 30fps/1080p (docked) on low settings.
I’m having more bugged quest or game does not want to detect your mouse right now problems than graphics or performance ones.
There are bugged quests, glitched cameras and abruptly disappointed dialogue aplenty in the back half of the game, for sure. Mind sharing your complete game settings? And are you overclocking or something? I’m genuinely astounded by the performance you’re getting and would like to try to recreate.
Have you played since the 2nd patch in the last few days? From what I’ve heard it’s a reasonable improvement but I haven’t booted it up yet.
Yeah, I went back and tried it again yesterday, fully updated. I have no idea how anyone is getting 30 FPS on steam deck in act 3, unless they’re in the camp or something.
Yeah we played some today and still dip below 30 in act 2, so I’m guessing the final act is still in rough shape. Still managed to feel much smoother, though, so hopefully they continue the trend.
seeing fallout 4 and skyrim still doing so well brings a smile to my face, at the time i genuinely bought a ps4 so i could play them
Same with The Witcher
WTF is Dave the Diver?
Really cute and relaxing game. Lots of charm and perfect for the steam deck. In this game youre a dude named Dave, a diver, who catches fish by day and works in a sushi bar by night. I stopped playing zelda totk for this haha.
I’m wondering the same about that and about whatever the heck is called “Brotato!” Do you play as a potato? I’m intrigued
It’s a vampire survivors like bullet heaven game. Edit: I mean Brotato.
How is elden ring’s performance on steam deck?
40 is better than 30, IMO. It’s not rock solid, but the drops mostly happen in transition areas where you aren’t in combat, and 30 has very noticeable input lag.
Medium graphic settings solid 30fps, or not that stable 40fps with sime settings turned down.
It was my mist played game on the deck befor baldurs gate 3
I probably contribute like half the hours Fallout 4 is getting, once you go through the pain of getting modding working how you want, it’s so easy to sink another hundred or so hours into it.
Lil Steamie Decky is hauling ass with 200 plugins just fine (assuming you don’t mind cranking everything to low settings, but you won’t notice it much on that display)
Honestly I know the Deck can run recent and current AAA titles but I generally have had just as much fun playing low-demand games like Stardew, Dead Cells, Caveblazers, etc.