A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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Mostly CrossCode. A fun little sci-fi action puzzler that pays homage to the SNES era of games. It's similar to Spirit of Mana. Low power requirements, and it has a Linux-native version that works better than the Windows version (you need updated engine files if you play from itch.io).
I'm also playing a little bit of No Man's Sky, but just here and there; I'm mostly playing that on my desktop.
Do you play No Mans Sky alone or with friends? I picked it up for my deck but havent tried it out yet... Unfortunately one of the reasons why I have a deck is my PC can't handle some games
I bought Vampire Survivors since it was slightly discounted and have only heard rave reviews about it.... I sank 7 hours in my first day lol!!
Picked up all the DLCs too. Imo worth the money to support the developer
Honestly mostly been learning blender, I am sure sure nobody ever intended blender to be used on a handheld gaming system but that is the beauty of the steam deck right?
Also been playing some everdell.
Coincidentally I had just downloaded Apex to start playing with a friend :(
I purchased a new monitor and video card right before rockstar pull their stunt with gta v. They arrived the day after I was locked out of gta online. So I feel your pain.
Honestly mostly been learning blender, I am sure sure nobody ever intended blender to be used on a handheld gaming system
I'm interested in the "how"
Just install blender from the discover app on the steam desktop, add it to steam as a non-steam game and you can launch it as you would any other game.
As for controls I prefer joysticks + gyro, but that is just me.
Sea of Stars. 🌊✨
It’s a really well done, turn based style rpg.
Been enjoying it a lot.
It's a good time for SNES spiritual successors!
I just started Chained Echoes, another snes-style rpg
I'm itching for the co-op update to do a second play through with my gf.
Witcher 3, Just finished the main story. And boy, CDPR really nailed the story/ character writing in this game. Looking to grab "Hearts of stone" & "Blood and Wind" DLC next GOG sale.
What an amazing 50hr time sink!
It's been a while since I played W3 but I remember Blood & Wine being a ton of fun. It's basically a parody of overly flashy knighthood tales with all the pomp you can imagine. Has a decently sized map and lots of content too and kinda feels like an epilogue to the main game.
I full-heartedly recommend picking it up!
still cyberpunk. just started the phantom liberty stuff. man is that ever not stealth decker friendly.
Is it the Phantom Liberty part specifically that isn't deck friendly? I replayed some of base cyberpunk on my OLED recently, and was really impressed by how well it runs now. I seem to remember performance being a lot worse when I tried it back on my original LCD deck.
The new content just has a bunch of parts where you are mobbed so if your playstyle is ninja decker and not the best up close and personal it can be tough. Its definately a bit different with a ton of parkour initially and many hidden item caches. I actually just got through the initial mission and now everything has opened up.
I've been playing a whole lot of Metaphor ReFantizio, and highly recommend it.
I enjoy the persona games, but I actually do like a fantasy setting more than the modern day setting of persona. I also find some of Persona's mechanics make the game more tedious than it should be (You have to equip a matching persona before spending your time with someone socially, and you have to get the right conversation responses or spend multiple time slots building social points), and Metaphor gets rid of those points of frustration. The road trip aspect is really fun too, overall I'm having a great time with it.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker. After a rough day of work, there's something incredibly soothing about dismantling a spaceship over a couple of hours.
Me too! I'm playing it on the easiest mode so I can just not stress and enjoy the hygge of breaking down spaceships
Frontier Pilot Simulator even though it doesn't work offline for some reason.
Wilmot Works It Out - much simpler than Wilmot's Warehouse, an extremely enjoyable puzzle game.
Loop Hero . Picked it up for last week for just under $5 and it's been a lot of fun.
It's an Indie rogue-like with a surprising amount going on.
My favorite being is that it mixes a deck builder rogue-like with building a world each run.
The "permanent upgrades" (outside of the game-loop) are pretty interesting as well- building a village/city and managing supplies.
I'm a weird Deck gamer, in that I often start games and come back once in a while, which I never do on PC, where I try to finish one game at a time
Ocarina of Time. I didn't grow up with the older games but I'm having fun so far. I'll play the other titles afterward
Windblown plays really well on the SD. Developed by Motion Twin, same folks behind Dead Cells. Rogue-like that plays similar to Hades but has some persistent upgrades like Dead Cells.
Ready or Not. Awesome on steam deck
Really? How's the performance?
Very good, I'm getting 50+ fps on medium settings
Dave the Diver. I was playing a pirated copy through October, it was a lot of fun so when it went on sale last week I bought it.
Visions of Mana. I'm almost at the end and I have been putting off beating it because then I will be sad.
I picked up Persona 5 Royale during the sale for 30 bucks.
I was a huge fan of P4G on the PSVita.
P5R is so stylish and it does such a great job of speeding up so much of tedium by allowing fast travel to most places.
Everything feels so snappy, the soundtrack is killer, the gameplay is fun. Runs like a dream on the OLEDeck. I've been enjoying taking it slow and getting to know the characters. Just finished the first palace.
Dangerous Waters.
Very old style, bit clumsy on the controls, but incredibly tense with the gritty sonar stuff.
Been only playing the P-3C airplane so far, but there's also tons of submarines, a helicopter and a frigate.
It is so satisfying to find and torpedo a submarines after staring at sonar graphs and dropping buoys for a while. Love it! I'll be sharing an updated aircraft-oriented controls config when I'm happy with it, based on the one community config that was there, which was more sub-oriented.
I downloaded Cold Waters (and dot mod) and have been slowly dipping my toes in. I think I like games with bright pixellated but clear old graphics when it is done well, I will have to put Dangerous Waters on the list.
Please share your bindings I really appreciate when people do!
Also how efficient does Dangerous Waters run on the deck?
Does Cold Waters work well on the Deck?
I've been hoping that the new Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age will work well on the Deck in a year or so, and was planning to stick to Dangerous Waters until then.
My P-3 (maritime patrol aircraft) bindings are shared on the community bindings already!
DW runs incredibly efficiently. The graphics look like 1999 anyways, so I just dial the TDP all the way down to 3 W and set FPS to 20. Perfect game when the battery is low!. I haven't modded it at all, I actually like the retro vibe (and the incredible sonar simulation).
Yeah no issues, dot mod (the mod ovehaul) works fine too.
"DW runs incredibly efficiently"
Honestly that is a such a huge asset, if you think about it almost every game studio with significant investment and capital tied up in it is categorically incapabele of ever creating similar 3d games that are as efficient as that again.
Case in point Armored Brigade 2's big new thing over Armored Brigade is that it has 3d graphics..but why? The only reason I can find is it looks cooler, which is really frustrating for the performance hit and for soaking up a major share of development time
I'll have to check out the sonar aspect of DW that sounds dope.
Vampire Survivors, Wreckfest, Slay the Princess, Hue.
@Fubarberry I've been playing Half-Life docked with a steam controller and its been fantastic. The steam controller is so good for fps games.
Haven't been playing much on it since I haven't felt like playing because college, but the last few times I have, I was busy dragging myself to play Fallout New Vegas to some day finally complete a run for the first time in any fallout game. Otherwise, I don't think I've played any other games.
Yakuza Like a Dragon. Super fun and super silly, runs perfectly on Deck @40FPS but boy is it a battery hog.
Tape to Tape. It's a roguelite hockey game that has a big sense of humor.
Mainly Balatro and Factorio at the moment, after finishing Forza Horizon 5 (whatever finishing in that game means lol).
I have been playing Blasphemous, gonna start Pillars of Eternity next.
Playing Dragon Age Veilguard. Just finished the first quest, and it's a lot of fun so far.