Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month, sorted by playtime.
Wait starfield works on SD? I thought it was too slow. Has there been a new patch?
I actually went on vacation the day it released. I installed it on my deck to be able to play when at the hotel. I put 14 hours in starfield on my deck. It’s PLAYABLE but not really ENJOYABLE. You have to turn it down to almost the lowest setting to play it reliably.
I played like 80 hours on steam deck. I don’t think it’s as optimized as Todd claims (RDR2 is much older and looks much better), but it plays alright.
No mods or anything, just settings tweaks.
I did not know you could play with a controller on PC. Is thist a steam customization for the deck ? (When I plug my xbox controller nothing happens in control settings or anywhere)
It is weird it doesn’t work for you. I always use my Xbox controller when I play games on my pc with a very few exceptions because of the need of hot keys. I am playing with a Xbox one controller with Bluetooth. Before did I use a Xbox 360 controller with wire until it started to not listen to me anymore (dead zone grew and dpad was always unsure what direction I clicked).
It isn’t a steam thing. But steam do have configurations so you can change the layout if you wish. For me is it plug and play but you can check out their documentation. They have a section at the bottom how you connect USB, wireless and Bluetooth.
I honestly couldn’t tell you how it works. Maybe check input settings in game? The game isn’t verified on deck so I wouldn’t think steam has done anything specific to make the controller work.
Mods + cryoutilities has it running pretty dang good!
I found it playable but being completely honest, the graphic settings are the lowest and while it looks fine enough for things nearby… shooting at enemies more than a few meters away means aiming under their name. Due to dumb circumstances making my gaming pc unavailable, I’m currently playing it “on my Mac” through GeForce Now.
I feel good for CDPR. They fumbled the launch of Cyberpunk, but people are still playing the crap out of it, so I guess they handled it well in the end. It must be horrible to have worked on a game for years, only for it to blow up the way Cyberpunk did.
Edit: Though I suppose the launch was only “fumbled” on last gen hardware.
The media outrage was disproportionate and completely disconnected from how it actually worked. It was a success from the start. As you said, the fumble was on consoles mostly.
It’s certainly good though that they worked so long to make it even better IMO.
Revisionism so blatant it could run for office in a red state.
Hahaha look at the steam stats for example before talking shit.
Like that proves anything, lol, gamers eat shit with a grin every day.
Sure, whatever
It’s weird how the fromsoft games are the only ones in all caps.
Seems to be a Japanese thing. Several of em do that. Wish they wouldn’t.
Famous from soft game DAVE THE DIVER
YOU DIVED
Oh, haha…I hadn’t noticed that it is also in caps.
I think these would be better if they worked like ratings charts and showed relative changes since last month.
Starfield ? How ?
It’s just for one month
But how can a steamdeck run starfield ?
Good point
Poorly
It looks a bit🥔 and requires some ini file tweaking, but I can get get playable FPS out of it, 30-ish for the most part
Keep in mind, theres a giant community behind yhe steamdeck, and if a game allows mods(especially bethesdas), theres always a modder who has a modlist for tweaks specifically for the deck.
I think it runs almost playably out of the box, so I would imagine it would work actually playably with a few mods, e.g. to adjust settings not accessible through graphics presets and to enable disk I/O cache.
On low, but pretty well.
The benefit of a smaller screen is that you need less resolution to make it look half decent and with all the optimizing valve does with proton i imagine its quite playable. But the way graphics where implemented in star-field is shit and there are no excuses.
upscaling algos
Vampire Survivors is still ging strong.
It’s impressive to me that games made by small teams or solo artists are going toe to toe with games made by the entire Western hemisphere. Stardew Valley is being played more than RDR2?
A graphically demanding game being high on this list is more impressive to me. BG3 looks like a claymation game on the deck, I wasn’t expecting it to be anywhere near as high.
I myself am still enjoying BG3 and Vampire Survivors on the deck. Not sure what game I will move to after BG3, but that won’t be for another month or two at the pace I am going.
People really play this many games in a month? Even when I played a lot I mostly focused on very few games.
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Ah, thank you.
You play at least 20 different games per month?
I’m pretty sure this is all Steam Deck users on Steam. But I could be wrong.
Makes sense. Sorry.
I was wondering why you were apologizing then I saw you were down voted like crazy. To be clear, I didn’t downvote you. I can see why you would have initially thought this was from one person.
Dave the Diver is such a gem
I played about 8 games in a row that I couldn’t get into until I found this one. It is definitely enjoyable.
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NMS works really well on Steam Deck! Low/med settings limited to 40 fps, getting 2 to 2.5 hrs battery life and the fan is barely spinning.
I am absolutely some of that NMS time. I just run it at default, and I get about an hour. Which is great, because after that I really should take a break.
Yeh I played it for 4 or 5 hours upon release and then threw the disc in the garbage when gamestop wouldn’t give me a refund or take it as a trade in.
Great to see all the updates but I still feel robbed and refuse to pick it up again because I’m stubborn.
I tried it when it hit Game Pass years ago and had the same experience. Although people tout the expansions as game changing I found it incredibly dull.
And the Witcher!
I’m contributing to #Stardew and #SlayTheSpire 👍
So a steam deck… Is this a handheld laptop or a streaming device to your computer?
It’s a handheld, standalone computer. It can do game streaming from a PC as well, but it’s powerful enough to run games like Fallout 4 at 40 FPS.
Is 40 acceptable? All I ever see is people complaining if it’s not 120 and I can’t tell if it’s just a meme or not. I play on console primarily for ease of use (I have toddlers), but I do have a pc that’s mid range that does well but I just feel so isolated from my family every time I sit at the computer. Thinking about the steam deck but I know next to nothing of it.
40 is a sweet spot between 30 and 60: feels much more smooth than 30, is much less demanding than 60. And by the way, 30 is acceptable too as long as it’s stable. Sure it will almost certainly feel less smooth than other options, but especially as you say you’re playing on console mostly… chances are you are already used to 30 fps. I, for example, feel the difference between 30 and 60 in Forza Horizon 5 (and the magic 40) but that’s not preventing me from doing well.
The one thing that I’m not sure has been mentioned yet, is that the Steam Deck targets 720p. The screen is small enough for that to work out fine.
The reason why 40 fps feels better is because even though its only 10 fps higher, the frame latency is half(25 ms) compared to 30(33.3 ms) and 60(16.6ms) on the two ends. So you work 33% harder for half the latency.
To put in perspective, the drop in latency (8.3 ms), is the same for example going from , 40 to 60, or 60(16.6) > 120(8.3 ms)
I love how technical the answer is
What you find acceptable is entirely based on your personal preference, how much you’ve already been exposed to higher specs, and how privileged you are in hardware, so some people are memeing and others are serious based on these. If console and mid-range pc gaming is all you know, the Steam Deck provides similar performance, and it’s a full on pc (with all the customization potential and non-gaming software availability you’d expect from a pc) in a handheld form factor, and a fairly console-like stock OS, if that’s appealing to you. But if you want 120-240 fps on latest AAA games, no, you won’t find the Steam Deck’s performance acceptable, but then also you wouldn’t be the target audience.
Steam Deck is only a 60Hz display (which your TV almost certainly is too) so anything over 60 fps isn’t actually going to make a difference visually. That being said, if you’re playing on a display capable of 120Hz, 120 fps will absolutely make a difference visually.
I use mine for indie games, mostly. I have a gaming computer for AAA titles. You can stream games from steam on your pc, but I haven’t fucked with that much.
It performs way better than I expected, but I am one of those that requires higher frame rates for some titles so.
Framerates are mostly a personal preference.
The Steam Deck has roughly the same gaming performance as a PS4, but it’s an actual PC so it can run all kinds of other software without hacky mods. It runs a version of Linux by default, but you could install Windows on it if that tickles your fancy.
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It’s basically a gaming laptop in the shape of an oversized switch.
I had no idea vampire survivor was such a hit. Feels like that would be a great handheld game.
It’s available on mobile apps stores I believe.
It runs fine in a browser for free as well.
