It’s been awesome to see the success of Vampire Survivors. Such a technically simple idea that’s so much fun!
Halls of Torment
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
I stopped playing after the second stages final boss took no damage. I spent 20 minutes on him and got him 1/4th of the way dead maybe. Ended up just quitting the run.
My answer to problems in Halls of Torment is to use archer crit build. If that doesn’t work, add more crit.
glad to see it sneaking up on the list here, looking forward to updates
I’m surprised too! Feels like this game came out of nowhere and still has lots of room to grow, good for the devs.
Brotato kicks ass
Fr it’s super underrated. Probably my favorite Vampire Survivors type game.
Amazed to see Holocure on there, pretty good going for a fan project
I probably contribute like half the hours Fallout 4 is getting, once you go through the pain of getting modding working how you want, it’s so easy to sink another hundred or so hours into it.
Lil Steamie Decky is hauling ass with 200 plugins just fine (assuming you don’t mind cranking everything to low settings, but you won’t notice it much on that display)
I’ve been happily adding to Dave the Diver’s numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.
It is amazing how every time you think “surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer” it fires off another bonkers event.
Yup, never ceases to amaze me! If with no context you’d described to me everything the game throws at you, I’d straight up think it’d never work but, amazingly, it all somehow fits together nicely. Hell, the base roguelite + management sim premise is wild enough on its own lol.
Very much looking forward to whatever they come up with next!
Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong
Try turning off FSR in the graphics settings, it looks much better and clearer with it off.
Second this! FSR makes everything blurry in BG3
I don’t have it on me but there’s an article with recommended settings and it runs pretty well
Launcher option: DirectX 11 Model quality: Low Texture filtering: Trilinear Shadow quality: Low Fog quality: Low Ambient occlusion: Off Everything else: Ultra preset equivalents
Set resolution to 900p, turn all settings to low or off (especially Antialiasing and god rays) except for textures at medium and the AMD upscaling to ultra high quality. Enable slow HDD mode if you installed the game to an SD card. Increase text size.
Runs very smooth for me.
Setting to low isn’t necessary. Runs great on Medium.
Turn off FSR. I’ve got 30 hours into it and prefer it on deck over PC.
Maxing out AA was a big help for me, with there being some weirdness due to the option resetting to off on game restart. I’m not sure I’d that’s been fixed in the latest patch.
Fucking skyrim never dies!
My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.
To be fair, it was a really fun game. They did a great job with it. In fact, I’ve been itching to play it again.
Say what you will about Bethesda and Skyrim, but they must have done something right because people still can’t put it down over a decade later. I do want to play it at some point, but I don’t know when I’ll have that kind of time.
It never will until a new elder scrolls comes out.
I don’t know whether Bethesda’s Starfield will do well or not but I do know they’re absolute morons to not feed the hungry demand for an elder scrolls sequel.
They are already working on it what more do you want?
To not take 15+ years to release it lol
An actual release and not a shovelware shitty MMO. Look at the release cadence:
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Arena 1994
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Daggerfall 1996 (2 years)
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Morrowind 2002 (6 years)
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Oblivion 2006 (4 years)
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Skyrim 2011 (5 years)
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??? (12+ years)
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Maybe not even then. Modders have made Skyrim better then Bethesda could ever make another game.
Bless the modders
How is elden ring’s performance on steam deck?
40 is better than 30, IMO. It’s not rock solid, but the drops mostly happen in transition areas where you aren’t in combat, and 30 has very noticeable input lag.
Medium graphic settings solid 30fps, or not that stable 40fps with sime settings turned down.
It was my mist played game on the deck befor baldurs gate 3
Glad to see Stardew Valley in the list 😊
Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old
I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn’t expect this list to be filled with new releases.
Yeah I prefer to play more demanding games on my PC and up the graphics
It’s the Steam Deck. Older games are gonna run better.
Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It’s OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it’s OK to play older games.
It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
-Baldur’s Gate 3
-Dave the Diver
-Armored Core 6
-Holocure
-Remnant 2If I’m counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years
Yeah, I didn’t search. Just did the ones I immediately recognized as recent big budget ones.
Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.
All these games suck
Comment of the year, everyone
shoutout to all the brotato mains
Old is gold
I really gotta fuckin buy that
Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.
I’ve been playing it since it launched, I’ll replay it until Geralt isn’t cool anymore.
I’ve been toying with the idea of getting one of these but I like strategy games like HOI4, factorio, rimworld. Anyone have any experience with them on the Deck?
Yeah I pretty much completed factorio on the steamdeck, with some pc play over cloud sync. Had a really good experience. The right touchpad is just a mouse, and you can bind any button to any key! (Including shift etc, so you can have endless combinations!)
I started off using one of the most popular steamdeck community layouts, and then customised it to make my own (drekly’s layout should be on there somewhere!)
Furthermore, I logged in recently to see there are new controller settings, so I think they may have patched the switch style controller options over to the pc version, with specific steamdeck controls. I’m so far in I’ve stuck with my mouse+kB layout though!
TIL factorio is on the switch
They all work great! Favtorio is the hardest one to wrap your head around but controller support is very good if you want it.
I even play a ton of Dwarf Fortress on it all the time with zero control issues.
I played a ton of EU4 and it did just fine, didn’t hit 60fps but really don’t need that kind of performance on a map game. back buttons for hotkeys/zooming in/out. Left trackpad set up as a touch to swap between different map types. Can always dock to a monitor with mouse/keyboard or just pair a bluetooth mouse. :)
Thanks for the insight!
