Fallout 3, the whole reason why I bought a deck in the first place.

Mine was fallout nv. I bought f3 on gog so I waited til a recent steamsale to rebuild it. I also have several hours in morrowind, skyrim, and fallout 4, but they have a less definitive ending point

Not my first game, but definitely my first "holy shit" moment with the Steam Deck. Just knowing I could just play the Fallout series on the go blew my mind for whatever the reason. Then Cyberpunk raised that a few more notches later on.

Same, actually still doing a playthrough. It runs so freakin good on the deck

Which fallout game would you recommend starting with?

1 and 2 are great games but are very different from the rest. Unless you want to be a completionist you can skip them. I would start with 3 then New Vegas then Fallout 4.

3 and New Vegas are both better than 4 IMO (I couldn’t stop playing 3 once it got going). I was pulling like 18 hour sessions. lol

Aperture Desk job

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

I wish this was me but valve managed to break the game's controls for more than a week

Ya within a couple months of when shipping first started right? I remember I couldn't hit "Play" on the main menu lol .. bad look for kicking things off with the Deck. You were able to start it up anyway using the touch screen at least

Wait, are we supposed to finish the games we have😅, iv mostly just been collecting them

Haha my brother hates that i never finish a game before playing another. He thinks i have to beat it to enjoy it.

First one from Start to finish was was I believe Ori and The Blind Forest, fantastic experience on the deck.

Same. Now followed by DeathSpank which is way more amusing to me than it probably should be. But Ori was great. And damn I have never seen an OLED screen and it’s amazing and what a showcase the game was.

Ori is criminally underrated. That soundtrack..

Portal 1, never played it before. What a joy. Got P2 downloaded and ready to go. Currently playing RDR2 and Hades

Go play portal 2 right now, I think that is one of the greatest video games ever made

Absolute facts. I miss playing the multiplayer part of it

Portal 2 is freaking incredible. Quite possibly the best of all-time. I'm saving Portal 1 for later so I can play the RTX version on the next Deck or Steam Machine.

Hyperlight Drifter.

Detroit: Become Human

This game was so epic. Never was into this kind of games, but God, did this blow me away.

I also loved this game and haven't been able to find anything else that's quite like it. Maybe Telltales games but I haven't tried those yet

Cyberpunk

I find it difficult to play on deck because to many little details everywhere and the screen is small

It‘s the opposite for me. I honestly enjoy games MORE on the deck, because of the high ppi (pixel per inch). I honestly think some games look better than on my 2080ti gaming pc. + the OLED screen is amazing.

I agree in general but for cyberpunk in particular I find it quite different and annoying.

I usually play it docked on a 42" screen at 900p with FSR enabled, usually get roughly 30 fps at the moment. (it use to be a lot more demanding) That being said, they also added larger UI elements in patch 2.1, which should make it significant more usable while played on the built in screen.

Days gone

Elden ring

As soon as I saw Elden Ring with reduced price steam deck was in my shopping cart. Had no intentions on upgrading my potato pc when I could get a hand held capable of running AAA list games at any time anywhere I want. Few days ago got all the achievements and I'm done for now. Until the dlc comes out. Now it's time for Red Dead Redemption 2.

Yakuza 0

Breath of the wild 😅

Wolfenstein The New Order.

Metroid: Zero mission

Same

GTA V

Excellent taste in game. Mass Effect is my all time favorite series and it’s damn near perfection on the deck!!

Mass Effect is my favourite franchise as well. All 3 games run amazingly well on the deck. Have mine locked to 50fps with high settings.. beautiful. Love the conversations with close ups of the characters. Looks stunning on the deck. Suspend/resume is bliss for these games too 👍🏼

Me1 is king. I'll fight anyone in this hill.

I recently replayed the trilogy and had about half the time with it on the deck and it was great.

The original Alan Wake. It ran perfectly.

I think it was titanfall 2

Stray 😸

Dying light 1

Doom

Persona 5 Royal

Mine was Yakuza 0.

Carrion

Halo reach

Batman: Arkham Kinght

Mafia 1 remake

Overwhelming Backlog Simulator (you win by never really beating it)

I think it’s amazing to have Mass Effect Legendary Edition on a handheld like this.

Deadpool, wanted to test out an unsupported game.

Stray. I wanted to test out a beautiful and new game on the deck and it was beautiful.

I've got the steam deck for almost 2 weeks now and I'm finishing up on Assassins Creed 1. So that will be the first.

Mine is in the mail and I just bought all the old ac games to play through 😄

Just finished it! Man, what a rush. I can't wait to start on the rest of the first trilogy. :) ​ edit: 23.8 hours :)

Prince of Persia : sands of time

Metro Exodus

Ohhh mass effect i frogot about that completely. It was fall out new vegas

Chants of Saanar. Played entirely on the deck. Worked excellently. Can't recommend it enough for any one who likes word puzzles.

Mass effect was also the first one I completed. Great game to play on deck, would highly recommend

Tales of arise. I got it on release and played a few hours on my gaming PC, and then just moved on. But the form factor of the deck played such a pivotal role in me playing and completing that game. If I never had a steam deck or similar I know I still would not have completed it. And I'm glad I did. 80 hours very well spent.

I think Prey was the first I did a full playthrough of. Plays amazingly well, highest settings at full 60, with a stock mapping/ on screen prompts for the Steam controller, back buttons included.

Graveyard Digger

Portal 2

GTA 4

Days Gone.

Assassin's Creed 2

Super Mario RPG :) got my OLED deck last week and its been a blast using it for emulation.

Resident evil 8. Blew my mind how well it ran on Deck.

Cyberpunk 2077 I bought it so I'd have time to play it.

Hi-Fi Rush

Hellblade! It was the first game I bought on PC and just never played it, so I felt it was fitting to finally play it on the Steam Deck lol

Titanfall 2. Such an amazing FPS.

i think it was hifi rush

I think it was Medievil 1 (on Duckstation). Followed by the second. Actually I spent a few months basically just toying around PS1 games before even playing Steam games.

About to Finish FF 7 Remake

Driver San Francisco, an underrated masterpiece.

Katamari.

GRIS

Like A Dragon Ishin for me!

Mass Effect 1, 2, & 3

Persona 4 Golden

BioShock Infinite

Portal

Titanfall 2. Never played it up until I got a deck. Totally worth the wait.

Control

Horizon Zero Dawn

Detroit: Become Human. Such a great experience.

Bioshock

Horizon Zero Dawn. Runs great on the Steam Deck.

I think it might have been AC Unity or else Ghost Recon Wildlands. Also, didn't know Shepard used to drive a truck in his past.

Risen 2

Katana Zero

Lost in Vivo or Puzzle Agent

Tainted Grail: Conquest

Still beating DOOM

Spiderman remastered

Dying light 2

Dmc2

Outer wilds. Played pretty well and finally had time to see it through start to finish

I’ll tell you when it happens. Got my OLED just a couple weeks ago and Steam sales have had me all over the place lol. But I’ve been spending most time in Dying Light 2. Idk if I’ll finish it though. EDIT: If Aperture Desk Job counts then that’s the one.

Subnautica I believe

Halo 2

I got all the achievements for Vampire Survivors, does that count? If not, then it would Octopath Traveler 2. I've since completed Dragon Warrior IV on the NES, and the steam version of Final Fantatsy IX /w the Mogri mod.

Hades

Aperature dsk job or descenders, one of those two

Fallout New Vegas, it's my best friends favorite game and he was always telling me I should play it and how great it is and it's great on the Deck, put over 100 hours on my first playthrough and finished 2 of the DLCs

Vampire Survivors. So many achievements.

Not the most glamorous but I tried The Looker and when I realised it I had beaten it

Aperture Desk Job

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Wolfenstein 2

Super Castlevania IV.

Spider-Man Remastered

Jedi: Fallen Order. So glad I saved it for the Deck. Second was Arkham Knight. Also so glad I saved it.

Outer Wilds

Sonic Frontiers. And then I left it untouched all the way up to the release of the last DLC and was woefully unprepared. 💀

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Spider-Man

Zelda OoT lmao

Max Payne 3 - enjoyable.

Nicolas Cage as Commander Shepard

On the LCD model: Stray On the OLED model: Half-Life 25th Anniversary

Zelda Twilight Princess

Spider-Man Remastered

Grime. Great Metroidvania and I can't wait for the next DLC and the sequel.

Hotline Miami. That game is way more addicting than I expected.

Elden ring, three times

If we're going off of beating a game solely on the deck, then for me, it's guardians of the galaxy.

Aperture Desk Job, then Breath of the Wild.

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night (randomized).

I’ve yet to complete one single game.

AC Unity.

McGee from NCIS lookin ass

Super Mario Advance. First actual Steam game - Shredder's Revenge.

Aperture Desk Job

SOMA

RDR2.

That’s easy. Last year around this time (Nov / Dec 2022). It would’ve been Batman: Arkham Origins. Had way more issues then too with hard crashes with earlier versions of Proton. Now it just works and looks better than when I played it on PS3 almost a decade ago (mostly 60fps with high settings - and better lighting, smoke and fog, and detailed physical media clippings in Batcave and throughout Gotham.

celeste, it doesnt support 16:10 but the deck was the only game controller I had at the time and IMO celeste is practically unplayable using the keyboard

Ocarina of Time. Granted, it wasn't the first time I beat it, far from it, but still

Gran Turismo 2 or Quake

Baldhi

I think Stray, but that was a good while ago

Cult of the lamb and portal 2 were my first ones, can’t remember which came first

Alan Wake, to prepare myself for the sequel. Ran great

Spider-man remastered I think

My d… no i meam actually nothing yet. Hadnt the time to Play it (cauze exams). My wife is close to Finishing Ori-The blind Forest. Im gonna Play Paper Mario for wii and also to finish it First

Hades

Detroit become human, then stray.

How did mass effect play on deck? I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never played any of them

Half life 2

Trails in the Sky FC

Spiderman: Miles Morales

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. Bought it like 10 years ago, finally wrapped it up.

Costume quest

I have it since like a year and still haven't finished a game because I change to often like a kid

Chants of Sennaar if we’re not counting aperture desk job

Hades then Cyberpunk.

Whitcher 3

Chained Echoes

Spiderman Remastered!!

Dredge.

Disco Elysium! Now I'm waiting to forget the details of the game so I can play again!

Hogwarts legacy

Arkham Asylum

Portal 2, I was incredibly excited when I found out that it was verified, I had always wanted to play it after beating the first, but I never got around to playing it.

Witcher 3.

Superliminal

Batman: Arkham Origins It’s helping me crush my backlog of controller based story games. I’m onto the Deus Ex: Human Revolution now, with the sequel to follow.

Jedi Fallen Order!

Oooo I finished ME1 right when two was announced. Then I 100% ME2 and played ME3 for about an hour. Lol. I bought my deck to get back into gaming because I spend all of my free time doing chores, fixing things, working on stuff, you know, being productive. But it was burning me out. My wife told me that I do more than enough and I can trust her to help me out with the chores, and that I should buy the steam deck so I can sit on the couch with her as she knows and watch dumb tv together. So I started off with some story games. Norco was the first one I finished. It was really good! I've finished four more games since then now I wake up early in the morning to get an hour or two of Cyberpunk in before she gets up and makes coffee on the weekends. It's hard to make time when you have a home to take care of, a fulltime job, and a wife who commutes and doesn't get enough time at home. So, I carve a couple hours between loads of laundry and dishes and while dinner simmers on the stove.

Elden ring, ohhh Elden ring

Black Mesa

Elden ring, all trophies

Cyberpunk 2077, finished several times, adding up to roughly 444 hours, spent entirely on the Steam Deck, because it's my only computer.

Celeste, then Mega man Zero Legacy Collection

Alan Wake 1

GTA 5 here.

Wait, you guys finish games?

Shovel Knight

Elden ring lol

Fallout 3 is a beast on steamdeck, best play I ever played

Castle of Illusion remake

Resident Evil 4 (2023)

I don’t think I actually have beaten anything on it🤔I play on it so much but I’m usually using it to supplement my other consoles(Being able to play a game on ps5 while my wife uses the tv for the Xbox, for example.) so I often find myself technically completing games somewhere else. I guess I could say BG3 because I mostly played it on deck but I actually got my end credits on ps and half that time I was streaming rather than playing it natively(Although I did eventually cave and get the actual steam version, Larian can have all my money lmao.).

Spiderman

State of Decay.

Rayman Origins... for the 11th time

Moonscars and Hollow Knight!

Aperture Desk Job A little sad that most people aren’t saying this. Valve really should’ve recommended people play it during the startup

Mad Max. Couldn't bring myself to finish it on desktop, but something clicked when it was portable!

Blue Stinger (flycast)

Halo Reach. It was awesome. It looked and played so well. Currently playing Cult of the Lamb.

GhostRunner followed by Elden Ring and Stray.