What are some good games you play that you think are good for extended travel (i.e. battery friendly)? Emulation and TDP-adjusted options count!
I haven’t actually benchmarked this, but I believe Dead Cells is pretty battery life friendly.
Bio prototype is Great (or any similar game tbh like vampire survivors, brotato…)
- Backpack battles
- Noita
- Broforce
- Baba is you
- Shattered pixel dungeon
- Caves of Qud
- Barony (maybe)
- Snake farm
- Snood
Noita 👍
Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast, you’ll need to use wine/proton tricks to get the water rendering correctly or Ys games before 8.
How did you ever get the controls mapped correctly? I LOVE Outrun 2, but my ZR /ZL were mapped to a single Z axis, meaning I can’t break and use the gas at the same time, making drifting almost impossible :(
Worked out of the box for me, no need for steam input of anything else.
Same here, recommended it to a friend recently but it is not available on Steam for purchase anymore! Something with the Ferrari license.
Easily available via AbandonedWare though
Openttd and openrc2 I can get 20 hours easy
Dwarf Fortress, Skyrim, Valheim
Darkest Dungeon is probably top of my games not already mentioned, Slay the Spire is definitely up there too!
In a weird way it is the really really fast paced games I like the most when on the go.
If I play 5 mins of Voidigo, DIG or Enter The Gungeon, I can potentially experience a lotttt of gameplay .
Playing Xonotic against bots is a blast, Xonotic probably uses less battery than any other 3D game in existence lol. Similarly 5 mins of Xonotic is a LONG time.
Motor Town is a great driving game to play while traveling, so is Snowrunners.
I only know one of those! I’ll have to check those out.
I’ve been going hard on Balatro lately. Fun rogue-lite deck-builder.
Same here. My only issue is sometimes I mix up some card suits due to the lower resolution and smaller screen size, and because I’m not paying close enough attention, end up playing a high card hand instead a flush.
Might help to turn off the scanline effect.
Otherwise it’s a perfect Deck game.
That and of course Slay The Spire, IMHO peak rogue like deck builder.
You can turn down everything to minimal (so maximal battery life) and have a perfect playing experience with that.
I’m currently traveling and really enjoying Against the Storm on the deck. Its easy to pop in for twenty minutes or just sink a couple hours into it. Runs super smooth on the deck.
It’s technically “unsupported” for steam deck for some reason but one of my absolute favorites.
Heat Signature
It’s a top down shooter roguelike with tight controls and and tons of replayability and it’s extremely battery friendly, i remember being trapped in the woods for a few days and I was able to get 8 or so hours of play from that game
Yo thank you for the suggestion, this game looks hilariously amazing. For anyone else, its also in space and looks like a darn blast if you love space themes. Only 15$
Do you have to use the touchpads?
Not at all, its totally built for controllers, I’m really not sure why it’s unsupported, i even started an entirely new save and played through the game again and had not a single issue, not one
What are your favourite games? What genres do you like? It would be difficult to recommend without knowing your preferences.
No context. I want to know yours. Sometimes, it’s good to explore genres you wouldn’t expect!
Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright
Fallout 3
Super Mario RPG (SNES)
Final Fantasy 6
Dragon Quest 3
What Remains of Edith Finch
Burnout 3
Mass Effect 1
Oo, I wouldn’t expect Fallout 3 to be lower power. But I guess being designed to run on 2008 hardware means it wouldn’t take much!
New Vegas runs better with modern hardware, so that’s a great choice too! Plus you can mod it more.
you can easily get 8 hours emulating ps2 games at 4w tdp and 1080p resolution, been playing persona 3 fes mostly because of that. I’ve also been able to push 4 hours emulating the switch version persona 5 royal at 7w tdp and 900mhz
though I’m not sure what extended travel means, I “only” travel 3 hours to class over one day
Slay the spire and FTL are my two go-to travel games. They don’t use much battery and give hours of entertainment
Oh god. Do I chance another bout of FTL addiction? Makes me wonder if Into the Breach would be similarly low-power.
Can confirm that into the breach is similarly lowpower. It’s absolutely great for deck. It isn’t time-based like FTL is, which makes it even better suited. (FTL makes me miss a mouse sometimes)
I play Slay the Spire or Into the Breach on my phone on every flight I take. Both are light on the battery.
Hotline Miami is a good one. Not super demanding and great for short play sessions
Been a while since I played that one!
