What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
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Emulating Final Fantasy X. It plays really well, especially with save states and 2x speed.
Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.
Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.
Tiny text and 40s eyes cause me to want to play a lot of stuff docked, but Hollow Knight was a fantastic experience on the Deck.
I lately I’ve been playing elden ring since I got it on sale but before that I mostly used it to emulate a bunch of older titles. Love the consoles versatility
How does Elden Ring run on it? I’ve already played it on Xbox but I’m thinking a second play through might be in order on the Steamdeck.
I played it start to finish on my deck using the co-op mod to play 2 player with my brother (who lives out of state). I also ran discord in the background on the deck, using headphones and the deck’s mic. Didn’t have any problems at all, super fun.
Runs at 40fps pretty solidly!
It’s nothing spectacular, but I can usually get a decent frame rate if I keep the settings down
I just started Bioshock 2 Remastered. It runs surprisingly well.
Why surprisingly?
There’s been a few recent remasters that weren’t optimized well, but this one runs at 40 fps with no adjustments. I was expecting 30-35 at best.
I’m hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend
Stardew valley, mini motorways, Mario kart 8 and subnautica.
I have a Diablo 4 addiction. It runs surprisingly well on my Deck. Only problem is it requires the internet, so I can’t play it anywhere outside of the house.
I know I’ll probably pick it up eventually, but I wanted to wait and see if Blizzard ruined the game through the early patches. Diablo 3 eventually turned out good, but playing during the launch year was a rough experience.
Besides, if I wait long enough there’s now hope they’ll release it on steam.
I was actually quite impressed with how Blizzard revived D3 with Reaper of Souls and its Item 2.0. They had some really bold and new (for the time) ideas and it worked.
But that was Blizzard of old and I have very little faith that they’re able to pull the same revival off on D4. The campaign was interesting, sort of, but beyond that: an awkward compromise between D2 and D3, and without the panache of either.
I suppose it’s worth playing at least once.
I’m baffled by how poorly Diablo 4 handles “mediocre” connections. I have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while and I’m even able to stream GeForce Now reasonably well, but I run into lag spikes on Diablo 4.
I don’t think it’s a network problem. I think Diablo has a memory leak that causes issues that are especially noticeable on the Steam Deck. I’ve heard it’s getting patched out soon, but not sure where I got that info from. One of my Discord friends I think…
I can pretty well track my performance issues to network performance. If I play in the morning when TMHI is performing better I don’t see any issues, while in the evening when the network is congested I run into lag.
A healthy mix of:
- Borderlands 1. Still getting used to playing fps on a controller. But flickstick+gyro sure helps.
- Brotato
- 20 Minutes Till Dawn
ETA: also, I should put some more time in Tunic.
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Morrowind.
Have you been playing through OpenMW or the original client?
OpenMW, and it works well. I haven’t tried the original.
OpenMW is THE way to go now. Don’t even consider the original engine.
Steamworld Heist and Olli Olli World. They fit what I want to play on the Deck: bite sized, good for lounging, a little more simple than what I want to play when I’m sitting at my desktop.
All the steamworld games are SO GOOD. I can’t wait for Build later this year. The demo is already wonderful.
No joke, Steamworld Heist got me through the first two weeks of being a parent.
Just finished Lone Fungus and started Haiku the Robot. Both great little 2D metroidvanias.
I play way too much FFXIV on mine, but been playing Baba is You, FFIX, Muse Dash, Downwell, Powerwash Sim, Slime Rancher 2 as well… I’m stoked that it plays the Lies of P demo pretty well!
Dead cells
Got it in the summer sales and the deck is a great way to play itJust finished up Diablo 4 and now I’m playing Dave the Diver.
Dave the diver. Game keeps so surprising me, its so good! 30 hours in and it feels like i just started, works flawless on the deck aswell.
