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I am thoroughly whelmed.
Dredge. Should be a perfect Deck on the sofa after work kinda game.
Probably buying Cult of the Lamb. Waiting to get my OLED Deck first though, still only at “packaged”. :/
My spouse loves that game, super cute art style and creative concept.
I just got Tunic and Unpacking on sale.
You’re in for a treat with Tunic.
I found the intro to be really obtuse but dang if pushing through didn’t pay off. That game is great.
I really enjoyed it though I found some of the later puzzles to be so obscure and difficult that I ended up looking up a lot of answers.
Just bought Lil Gator Game, Just finished Lil Gator Game.
Was moved to tears multiple times.
In all seriousness, I recommend it as fuck. And it plays amazing on the deck too.
That game looks a bit like “a short hike” thanks for the tip, bought it
It is! I loved both, you’re in for a treat!
Okay, i’m instantly in
Ooh, I forgot Hat in Time was a thing, I guess I should play it even if a little late
Oh yeah you should! Cute, charming and i keep suspecting it was a bit of a love note to Calvin and Hobbes because the unnamed girl is just like the little girl version of Calvin 😆
Go blind if possible. Do have in mind that the platforming in most of the game isn’t too hard but there’s points where it does ramp up significantly.
Already not blind for the first half of the game because there was a wild Alpharad once.
Spoilers don’t hold power over my enjoyment generally though, so gonna I’m go check it out either way
Also I crave the difficult platforming.
I just got a 2nd hand Oculus Rift S for cheap, so I’m gonne take a look at the VR offers, as this is my first VR experience.
Oooh congrats, there’s so many phenomenal VR games. I have to recommend Pistol Whip, it’s essentially a John Wick music simulator. Shoot to the beat (or not) going down a hallway where enemies shoot at where you are. Move a bit, the bullet flies right by you. There are 38 official tracks after 4 years of completely free updates. They also have released a modding toolkit which has some pretty sick maps people have made - any song you want you can make!
I prefer it to Beat Saber quite a bit, but it’s really a preference thing. Synth Riders and Audio Surfers are also fun, there’s also Audio Shield and Electronauts - all basically variations on the same premise. Music and actions coordinated to rhythm. As I said, my favorite of them all is Pistol Whip, it always keeps me coming back.
I have so, soooo many more recommendations so I’ll just list a couple by genre.
Creative hobby: there’s a number of VR-space hobbies that work really well. First is Open Brush, which is an open sourced free version of the depreciated Tilt Brush by Google. It’s quite literally VR painting and there’s scenes you can enter made by other people. For regular painting in VR, there’s Vermillion which is super awesome all around. There’s SculptrVR for all your clay working desires. There’s also art-like experiences, Chroma Lab, DMT, Ayahuasca. They’re ok but worth looking at and deciding for yourself, Chroma Lab is my fav of those 3.
Music wise there’s SynthVR, which can be a full VR synth-rack that you build - much cheaper than buying them! There’s Paradiddle for VR drumming which has a lot of great features and pretty much full hardware support all around. Seriously great software. And finally, Vinyl Reality which is VR DJIng! It uses all your music files you have, I recommend using a software to get BPM data. I just used a plugin from my audio player Foobar2000 and it took about 30-40 minutes on 20k tracks so not bad.
I love the creative hobby programs because sometimes painting or sculpting can just be too much setup/cleanup and these make it so simple. No, they’re not real life but man do they come close enough. Since they’re much more relaxed, I also recommend VR tools - XS Overlay (or OVR Toolkit). They are overlay programs to bring panels from your computer into VR. Basically, you can have a floating panel for you desktop open, or a floating panel for Firefox or your media player. XS Overlay uses a newer standard, OVR Toolkit is good too but with more tools. There is also OVR Advanced Settings for adjusting some VR space - if your playspace is too tall or too short or too far back/Forward/left/right or rotated incorrectly then this program lets you adjust and fix that. Very necessary when you need it. Both of these programs can run in the background during your VR session with minimal performance loss. Anyway, I recommend XS Overlay (or OVR Toolkit) because if you have an android you can use SCRCPY (not on Steam) to bring your phone in VR. It works exceedingly well, it’s insane. SCRCPY mirrors your phone as a window, and you can set specific bitrates and FPS values to match the refresh rate of your VR headset. Once the window is open - XS Overlay to bring your phone screen in VR… It’s freaking awesome.
Okay, so all of that is just basically VR simulating real life but getting around some of the inconveniences of real life. Cleaning, not having access to your phone when gaming in VR or being able to have a video playing floating next to you. But how about actual games?
Simulators are popular and definitely check out the ones people have recommended already. In addition to those - Elite Dangerous and Star Wars Squadrons (on sale) if you have a HOTAS. There’s also the car simulators, although tbh I tried these and most of them were more effort to set up than most and the experience with a race wheel in VR didn’t seem as worthwhile as the HOTAS does. Personally I’ve been happy with flat-screen race wheel games. Other than these, I feel like seated sims are hit or miss.
VR FPS: Arizona Sunshine, The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, ARK-ADE, Naked Sun, Pavlov VR are all very well done. Into the radius is pretty good too. I also recommend Duck Season, it’s VR Duck Hunt…! And of course, Half Life Alyx.
VR Action: Boneworks and then Bonelab, made by the same people who did Duck Season. Blade & Sorcery, GORN, Budget Cuts, Phasmophobia, and SuperhotVR are all worth looking into as well. There’s also Deadly Hunter which is worth a look.
VR Game: I dunno how else to categorize these other than legit game/mini game games? Hyper Psychic Gauntlets, Catlateral Damage, Chupa Chupa VR, King Kaiju, REZ, Moose Life, VR Noid, Holoball, Vertical Shift, Panoptic & Keep taking and nobody explodes. Finally, Accounting and The Cubicle which are free experiences.
I really recommend that last batch, they are very fun.
Enjoy!
This is very thorough, thanks! Though I’m missing one of the reasons I got this thing: the 7th Guest VR. It’s a VR remake of the old DOS FMV game!
Ooh if you like older games there’s Dolphin VR that has Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, and a couple others.
There’s also 3DNESVR For a few NES games in a VR-ized way. It’s nice :)
Cool! Thanks!
Beat Saber & VTOL VR are my recommendations for VR games that can be more then a 30min ExpErIEncE.
You didn’t ask, I know… :-)
It’s appreciated anyway! Put beat saber on my wishlist!
I wholeheartedly recommend Synth Riders if you’re into rhythm games!
Check out VRchat. It’s free and frankly what meta is trying to build…but it’s already here
I highly recommend Death Must Die. It is early access, as a fair warning. But it successfully mixes up Hades with Vampire Survivors and a few others. Runs great on Deck as well. The dialog can be cringe and the story is clearly under development. But if you want a fun gameplay loop–this is the game.
I got Cassette Beasts specifically for my deck, though everything else I got should work, though the controls might be rough.
You’re in for a treat, Cassette Beasts is so underrated. I played it at release and I still listen to the music regularly.
Nothing! I’m going with a Sega Dreamcast/Gamecube classic, and jumping into Phantasy Star Online BB for the holiday weekend. Apparently private server even has a guide for getting it running on Steam Deck (or any Linux distro), but I’ll just be playing on PC.
I just got a Steam Deck and will be using it as a console with my wife & kids - in that light I’ve bought a lot of smaller co-op and local multiplayer games:
- Stick Fight: The Game
- Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure
- Moving Out
- Broforce
- Cook, Serve, Delicious
- Portal 2
- Rubber Bandits
- HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED
- Horizon Chase Turbo
- Ultimate Chicken Horse
- Human Fall Flat
- CarX Drift Racing Online
- Nidhogg
- Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection
We’ll see what else we’ll go for, but that should help us get started :)
I recommend giving Plate Up a look!
Monster Hunter Rise + DLC for me and qt gf. 60% off and runs like a dream! 60 fps with default settings.
Is the coop system in monster hunter rise like it is in monster hunter world? Bc me and my so both enjoyed the game but the coop for world was so strange. Almost not even coop
Black Mesa, The Master Chief collection, Ori bundle and Sonic Superstars. 70€ ;_; (because that fucking new Sonic game is too expensive, even on 30% sale)
Got a bunch of Pinball FX tables.
Trying to keep it tame this time as Monster Hunter Rise has me plenty busy. Got Forza Horizon 4 and may come back for an Aeon’s End expansion later.
I grabbed Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Sleeping Dogs Definitive Editon, both of these are supposed to be great on the deck! Still stuck in Packaged purgatory though, so it’s going to be a while before I actually get the chance to play them. There were some other games I was considering, but I gotta stop spending so much money right after buying a new piece of hardware… One day Sekiro will be at 70+% off, and that is the day I’ll buy it.
One day Sekiro will be at 70+% off, and that is the day I’ll buy it.
Only 50% off at the moment.
Yakuza like a dragon is fantastic, beat it on my deck a few months ago.
I’m also waiting on a meaningful sale to buy Sekiro, $30 isn’t going to cut it when I’ve got so many other games I want to play at a better discount.