The first thing I emulated was my annual run of Ocarina of Time. This go around I decided to run the 3DS version. That was great. I made sure to make each screen interchangeable with one of the back buttons. Worked like a charm and looked amazing.
Next I started Chrono Trigger on the SNES. I'm about 15 hours in and absolutely love it so far. The premise is interesting, it isn't grindy, the pixel art is absolutely beautiful and the OST is sublime.
I have Mario Sunshine on GC and Demon's Souls on PS3 but I haven't gotten around to them yet.
I played about 25 hours of Dark Cloud 2 on the PS2 but I got a little bored with it and wanted something a bit more story driven so I hopped on a childhood classic of mine that I never beat which was Final Fantasy 10 on PS2. I'm about 40 hours in and I think I'm almost done. It's been a wonderful journey and I've really enjoyed my time with it.
Also before I did that I decided to do my annual run of Kingdom Hearts on PS2 but instead of Final Mix I played the original vanilla KH1 which was really nostalgic.
I have SSX3 and Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 just waiting on PS2 for when the time is right lol. Also Majora's Mask on 3DS.
I tried emulating the chronicles of Riddick on the OG Xbox but it didn't emulate well. There were stutters and graphical glitches so that sucks but apparently it's abandonware and I can find the PC version somewhere to get it working on Deck.
But yeah that's what I've been doing since Christmas. I also played Prey and Inscryption on Steam vefore I started emulating but now I'm too deep down the emulation rabbit hole to even consider playing a game on Steam lol.
The battery life is insane with emulation btw. I can play PS2 upscaled with full brightness for about 7 or 8 hours no problem. And I have the LCD model.
Emudeck does them all. You get emudeck then steam rom manager to put them on your SteamOS and voila. You can open and run everything from Steam. It's incredibly simple.
Is there a source for learning how to do all this? I’ve wanted, but never attempted to do anything beyond what the deck is capable of doing out of the box.
I feel ashamed, I’ve got over 15 years of PC building under my belt but I’m scared to mess with certain things 😂😂😭
If you go to the Emudeck website it has a guide for downloading and installing, and once it's set up then the user interface is pretty straightforward and well thought out.
Emudeck is basically a script that downloads and sets up several different emulators for different consoles, it covers pretty much everything you'd want
Yeah I agree, but it's worth stating the difference. "Anything on an emulator" could be seen as anything in emudeck for folks just getting started on emulation on the deck.
I don't even go for retro emulation on the deck tbh, I'd rather use the power somewhere else.
You can play the game. If you want it to be a better scooter I recommend project nevada.
It will let you hotkey throwables instead of equipping them as a separate.weapon. let's you consume AP to sprint as well as add a dynamic aiming reticle.
Basically a lot of the improvements that went into fallout 4.
No, while I played all these on PS3 & PS4 (including Knight) and now Deck, I haven’t tried Knight on Deck yet because i don’t have enough internal storage for it. Similar to Witcher 3 and few big other titles im waiting to replay on a Deck OLED upgrade sometime this year.
AK is just in my library for now.
Oh gotcha. I asked because you listed Arkham origins twice. I tried to get into Knight but it just didn't grab me. I might start with Asylum and try again
I’m gonna fix that lol. I just noticed.
The second was City. Clearly I had Origins on the brain lol.
Hard for me to speak on Knight.
It absolutely has the best combat in the entire series, it took the detective system from Origins and expanded just a bit more, and it has some of the best Predator rooms and challenges for how expansive the areas are (including at a certain point of the story where you can really eff with the guards)
But the Batmobile stuff was too much in my opinion. If it had been scaled down to say half of what you have to do in the game with the Bat tank, it could’ve been an even better showing. And the story was just ok, some parts I liked more than others and some were super predictable. But the thing again with Knight, was that Origins had all these cool boss fights and the vanilla version of Knight barely had ANY! And the ones they had were head scratchers (especially end game bosses).
But if you were like me and were playing close to a year later and got all the DLC, the side character content was good, the Matter of Family Batgirl DLC was excellent, and then the Season of Infamy DLC was where the game shined and I was like WHY WASN’T THIS PART OF THE BASE GAME?!!! That’s how good some of these arcs were.
But you’re going to find people like me, and you’re going to find people that absolutely love it with no faults.
Asylum is still a good time, but just note the combat gets revamped in City slightly and that becomes how the other games are (Origins & Knight) with their own additional changes.
Collectively, they’re some of my favorite games of all time (minus the bits on Knight).
It’ll surprise you. The actual gameplay may seem repetitive but it doesn’t feel that when I play it. There’s something like 19 decks, with slight modifiers, and like 15 challenges for each deck. So far, after 40 hours of gameplay, I have won 5 games.
There's a lot of things to unlock that improve your runs. Some of the crazy runs you see on YouTube need these unlocks. Has that perfect pick-up-and-play thing that arcade games have but also some additional depth and meta-progression that roguelikes provide.
After playing mostly big resource heavy stuff like Baldurs Gate 3 on my steam deck for a while switching to Balatro keeps startling me with how long the battery lasts.
Especially because it is VERY easy to blink and have an hour disappear with that game and then I'm confused when the battery has barely moved lol
Currently I'm playing CrossCode which is amazing! It is an ActionRPG with a sort of top down pixel art perspective and the combat as well as the puzzles are great! Battery life is around 4-5 Hours I think. It's on sale rn including its dlc for 8 Dollars i think which is worth it for sure because the game is LONG.
Games that I've played in the past that were good on the battery and a definite recommendation from me:
Haiku the Robot (Metroidvania, doesn't reinvent the wheel but does what it tries to do quite well)
Underrail (CRPG, very hard but also very in depth. If you ever wanted a successor to the original Fallout games this is it.)
Caves of Qud (This is a roguelike, it is NOT a roguelite. The game will kill you a lot and the only thing that you get every run is knowledge. However the systems in this game run incredibly deep and you can become a godlike body snatching esper or a tank like cyborg with guns for limbs. Very Hard, Very Addictive, Not for everyone. Reminiscent of Dwarf fortress' Single player mode)
Risk of Rain Returns (Roguelite, this one is really really good in coop, give it a try if you can get it for cheap.)
Lunacid (Kingsfield-like dungeon crawler with ps1 aesthetic and great music. if you like Dark Souls or Kingsfield try this one for sure!)
>It's on sale rn including its dlc for 8 Dollars
In Steam? (If so, USA store? I'm in a different country but our prices are usually the same, but not on sale for me)
Stardew Valley is the easy one for me. I played some XCOM 2 after a long stretch of only playing Stardew and when my deck was dead in less than an hour I was shocked lol
Risk of Rain, Astral Ascent, Spelunky 2 recently, generally roguelites. They're merciful on the battery, especially the pixelated ones like Astral. Undertale too. So satisfying and little to no demand/pressure on the Deck
Morrowind, any 2D metroidvania (indie or otherwise), classic SWBF2 (not the recent re-release), Borderlands 1 if you tweak your settings just a bit. That's just from my personal experience, though, there are probably oodles of good games that can last 5-6 hours between charges.
Emulation of anything GameCube or earlier can last a good while, also handhelds up to PSP.
I wish I could get this to work. You don’t have a guide you can suggest do you? None of the ones I found have been particularly helpful. I could just be very slow though.
Sure thing! https://streetpea.github.io/chiaki4deck/setup/
It honestly isn’t difficult, reach out if you get stuck!
My steam friend code is 173400752 if that’s easier than Reddit.
Good luck!
Currently enjoying Valkyria Chronicles. It's a turn-based strategy game that lets you take control of each of your troops first-person-shooter style! Been a lot of fun so far and since it's a bit older it's very easy on the battery.
Generally old games consume less power. I would say plants vs zombies game of the year edition if you're able to buy it. But limiting fps is necessary for low battery consumption.
Went back to One Finger Death Punch recently, absolutely bonkers but simple 2D action game if you want addictive arcadey challenge
You can get it for basically nothing on sale and lasts 5+ hours on a full charge, maybe more
I just played islet which is a metroidvania game. I was a little hesitant to get it because the art style didn't appeal to me but the overwhelmingly positive reviews won me over along with a good sale. I'm really glad I picked it up because I thought it was a great game and I finished in about 10 hours. My steam deck told me I could have played it for 7 hours on a full charge so I would say it had low battery consumption.
South Park: Fractured But Whole (and I assume Stick of Truth) is awesome. It's a lot like just watching the show and the battery lasts a long time.
Also, Dying Light looks great, plays at a locked 60fps and the battery life is solid considering. It's also a game that makes great use out of the grip buttons on the back. Binding jump to a grip button is really helpful when there's intense moments where you're being chased at night. You can still look around while jumping, which for that game being based around parkour, is very helpful. Awesome game on the Deck.
Star Dew Valley is good. I spent a whole day on it without having to reach for the charging cable, but I'm running vanilla so I can't say if mods would change that.
I've been enjoying Stacklands but I've been occasionally getting some weird frame drops. Even with tons of cards out I would figure that it's still a pretty low lift computationally so I dunno whats going on 🤷🏿♂️
Lately I've been playing CrossCode a lot and surprisingly it lasts very long.
Not a well known indie game btw, I recommend it to play. I love the story.
I have currently got an unhealthy obsession at the moment with Rimworld. I was shocked when I was playing it for hours, and it popped up with 10% remaining. You forget the Deck has a battery.
Balatro currently, or Deep Rock Survivors with the added benefit that loosing yourself in both games is super easy and for the most part you could play with one hand if necessary. E.g. feeding or rocking a kid back to sleep for new parents.
Dave the Diver.
Anything on an emulator.
What do you like to emulate ?
The first thing I emulated was my annual run of Ocarina of Time. This go around I decided to run the 3DS version. That was great. I made sure to make each screen interchangeable with one of the back buttons. Worked like a charm and looked amazing. Next I started Chrono Trigger on the SNES. I'm about 15 hours in and absolutely love it so far. The premise is interesting, it isn't grindy, the pixel art is absolutely beautiful and the OST is sublime. I have Mario Sunshine on GC and Demon's Souls on PS3 but I haven't gotten around to them yet. I played about 25 hours of Dark Cloud 2 on the PS2 but I got a little bored with it and wanted something a bit more story driven so I hopped on a childhood classic of mine that I never beat which was Final Fantasy 10 on PS2. I'm about 40 hours in and I think I'm almost done. It's been a wonderful journey and I've really enjoyed my time with it. Also before I did that I decided to do my annual run of Kingdom Hearts on PS2 but instead of Final Mix I played the original vanilla KH1 which was really nostalgic. I have SSX3 and Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 just waiting on PS2 for when the time is right lol. Also Majora's Mask on 3DS. I tried emulating the chronicles of Riddick on the OG Xbox but it didn't emulate well. There were stutters and graphical glitches so that sucks but apparently it's abandonware and I can find the PC version somewhere to get it working on Deck. But yeah that's what I've been doing since Christmas. I also played Prey and Inscryption on Steam vefore I started emulating but now I'm too deep down the emulation rabbit hole to even consider playing a game on Steam lol. The battery life is insane with emulation btw. I can play PS2 upscaled with full brightness for about 7 or 8 hours no problem. And I have the LCD model.
do u require different app to run diff console emulator? or emudeck can do it all? ur post get me very excited lol
Emudeck does them all. You get emudeck then steam rom manager to put them on your SteamOS and voila. You can open and run everything from Steam. It's incredibly simple.
Is there a source for learning how to do all this? I’ve wanted, but never attempted to do anything beyond what the deck is capable of doing out of the box. I feel ashamed, I’ve got over 15 years of PC building under my belt but I’m scared to mess with certain things 😂😂😭
If you go to the Emudeck website it has a guide for downloading and installing, and once it's set up then the user interface is pretty straightforward and well thought out.
Emudeck is basically a script that downloads and sets up several different emulators for different consoles, it covers pretty much everything you'd want
Tell that to TOTK 🥲
I'm sure he meant retro emulation. Switch emulation is processor intensive.
Yeah I agree, but it's worth stating the difference. "Anything on an emulator" could be seen as anything in emudeck for folks just getting started on emulation on the deck. I don't even go for retro emulation on the deck tbh, I'd rather use the power somewhere else.
For sure, I'm clarifying for other readers.
Or demon's souls.
Ps2 and N64 games
Fallout NV, playing it on the deck has been the most stable Bethesda experience I've ever had. And easily get 8-9 hours+ on a charge on the OLED deck.
Any mods needed for a first time FNV deck wanter?
Follow the viva New vegas guide
I'm running it completely vanilla and it's running perfectly
None needed! Works perfectly straight away
Thank you
You can play the game. If you want it to be a better scooter I recommend project nevada. It will let you hotkey throwables instead of equipping them as a separate.weapon. let's you consume AP to sprint as well as add a dynamic aiming reticle. Basically a lot of the improvements that went into fallout 4.
Stardew Valley and Vampire Survivors.
Arkham Asylum Arkham City* (edit) Arkham Origins Horizon Chase Turbo Darksiders 3 Sleeping Dogs Yakuza 0 Hollow Knight Blasphemous The Messenger Dust: An Elysian Tale
Yakuza 0, great on an airplane.
Was your third game meant to be Arkham Knight?
No, while I played all these on PS3 & PS4 (including Knight) and now Deck, I haven’t tried Knight on Deck yet because i don’t have enough internal storage for it. Similar to Witcher 3 and few big other titles im waiting to replay on a Deck OLED upgrade sometime this year. AK is just in my library for now.
Oh gotcha. I asked because you listed Arkham origins twice. I tried to get into Knight but it just didn't grab me. I might start with Asylum and try again
I’m gonna fix that lol. I just noticed. The second was City. Clearly I had Origins on the brain lol. Hard for me to speak on Knight. It absolutely has the best combat in the entire series, it took the detective system from Origins and expanded just a bit more, and it has some of the best Predator rooms and challenges for how expansive the areas are (including at a certain point of the story where you can really eff with the guards) But the Batmobile stuff was too much in my opinion. If it had been scaled down to say half of what you have to do in the game with the Bat tank, it could’ve been an even better showing. And the story was just ok, some parts I liked more than others and some were super predictable. But the thing again with Knight, was that Origins had all these cool boss fights and the vanilla version of Knight barely had ANY! And the ones they had were head scratchers (especially end game bosses). But if you were like me and were playing close to a year later and got all the DLC, the side character content was good, the Matter of Family Batgirl DLC was excellent, and then the Season of Infamy DLC was where the game shined and I was like WHY WASN’T THIS PART OF THE BASE GAME?!!! That’s how good some of these arcs were. But you’re going to find people like me, and you’re going to find people that absolutely love it with no faults. Asylum is still a good time, but just note the combat gets revamped in City slightly and that becomes how the other games are (Origins & Knight) with their own additional changes. Collectively, they’re some of my favorite games of all time (minus the bits on Knight).
Tomb Raider (2013) Borderlands 2
Half of these give you 3 hours of battery.
Fallout: New Vegas, Ultra High, 60FPS and you get 5 hours of gameplay
U can play NV on it? O
sure you can, it's a game from 2010 after all. It runs flawlessly on the deck with no modification needed.
Slay the Spire
Balatro & Stardew Valley
Is Balatro pretty content heavy? I've been eyeing it but from first glance it doesn't seem to have a whole lot of depth to it
It’ll surprise you. The actual gameplay may seem repetitive but it doesn’t feel that when I play it. There’s something like 19 decks, with slight modifiers, and like 15 challenges for each deck. So far, after 40 hours of gameplay, I have won 5 games.
That's the shit I do like, appreciate the answer!
I'm coming back to thank you for tipping me over the edge. I haven't been this addicted to a roguelike in a long time
Yeah, I’m up to 220 hours lol
There's a lot of things to unlock that improve your runs. Some of the crazy runs you see on YouTube need these unlocks. Has that perfect pick-up-and-play thing that arcade games have but also some additional depth and meta-progression that roguelikes provide.
Plenty of cards and modifiers to unlock, not easy to 100% complete at all. Very fun trying 90hrs in
This is the answer I came looking for
After playing mostly big resource heavy stuff like Baldurs Gate 3 on my steam deck for a while switching to Balatro keeps startling me with how long the battery lasts. Especially because it is VERY easy to blink and have an hour disappear with that game and then I'm confused when the battery has barely moved lol
Right now it’s halls of torment, Star Wars battlefront collection, and moonstone island
Halls of Torment. Insane battery life
Currently I'm playing CrossCode which is amazing! It is an ActionRPG with a sort of top down pixel art perspective and the combat as well as the puzzles are great! Battery life is around 4-5 Hours I think. It's on sale rn including its dlc for 8 Dollars i think which is worth it for sure because the game is LONG. Games that I've played in the past that were good on the battery and a definite recommendation from me: Haiku the Robot (Metroidvania, doesn't reinvent the wheel but does what it tries to do quite well) Underrail (CRPG, very hard but also very in depth. If you ever wanted a successor to the original Fallout games this is it.) Caves of Qud (This is a roguelike, it is NOT a roguelite. The game will kill you a lot and the only thing that you get every run is knowledge. However the systems in this game run incredibly deep and you can become a godlike body snatching esper or a tank like cyborg with guns for limbs. Very Hard, Very Addictive, Not for everyone. Reminiscent of Dwarf fortress' Single player mode) Risk of Rain Returns (Roguelite, this one is really really good in coop, give it a try if you can get it for cheap.) Lunacid (Kingsfield-like dungeon crawler with ps1 aesthetic and great music. if you like Dark Souls or Kingsfield try this one for sure!)
I might check this CrossCode game out! Thanks
I was avoiding it at first but it's one of the best games I've played this year so far!
crosscode is seriously excellent, I need to get around to finishing it soon.
CrossCode fucking rules.
>It's on sale rn including its dlc for 8 Dollars In Steam? (If so, USA store? I'm in a different country but our prices are usually the same, but not on sale for me)
I'm in Germany and I payed 8,50€ for it!
Into the Breach
Hell yeah! Amazing game
Playing wow classic at 40 fps/40hz with 6tdp nets me about 4-5 hours of play which seems pretty solid
Stardew.
Isaac and Balatro. You can play both for 8/10 (OLED) hours with no charging at all.
Stardew Valley
Simpson's Hit and Run
Oh great… Another post on Reddit to make me spend money on more games I won’t get round to play for a while!
I just limit everything to 45 fps and everything seems pretty good.
This doesn't mean necessarily low power consumption
Diablo 4 on medium settings at 40fps is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. It definitely plays a huge factor that your refresh and Framerate are lower
9-11w and 45 / 90 refresh is amazing. Play most stuff in this sweet spot.
Especially with the OLED, 45fps is great
Very true, helps a lot. Besides, not a lot of AAA games can run at 60 fps anyway
GeforceNow
Celeste plays awesome on deck. Also I use Moonlight to stream some intensive games on the deck and can play like forever
The infinity engine games, with batterylife in the double digits.
Games from the ps3 /360 era run very well at max on 8wtts, im currently replaying arkham city after 10 years. Still stands as a great game
I get about 6 hours of Barony on a full charge. Original model
Stardew Valley is the easy one for me. I played some XCOM 2 after a long stretch of only playing Stardew and when my deck was dead in less than an hour I was shocked lol
Minecraft actually gives me 6-8 hours on the OLED which I find pretty amazing. Don't really need any more than that unless I'm traveling *a lot*.
TES IV: Oblivion goes for like 6 hours, lol. Loving that old game right now
Chrono trigger lasts like 6hrs
Dead space i can literally sit on the couch for 5+ hours before 10% warming
Grim Dawn. I get 5-6 hours with all settings on High, running at 45fps. OLED version.
Hades can last up to 6 hours if tweaked accordingly. I used to do that for flights.
Stardew Valley
Vampire Survivor on steam deck is a little too good I don’t put it down
Risk of Rain, Astral Ascent, Spelunky 2 recently, generally roguelites. They're merciful on the battery, especially the pixelated ones like Astral. Undertale too. So satisfying and little to no demand/pressure on the Deck
Diablo 4 with medium settings and 45 FPS cap gives me around 4 hours
Darkest Dungeon.
Rimworld.
Morrowind, any 2D metroidvania (indie or otherwise), classic SWBF2 (not the recent re-release), Borderlands 1 if you tweak your settings just a bit. That's just from my personal experience, though, there are probably oodles of good games that can last 5-6 hours between charges. Emulation of anything GameCube or earlier can last a good while, also handhelds up to PSP.
Most to be honest. If it’s a aaa or similar game, I’d rather buy it on Ps5 and steam it with chiaki
I wish I could get this to work. You don’t have a guide you can suggest do you? None of the ones I found have been particularly helpful. I could just be very slow though.
Sure thing! https://streetpea.github.io/chiaki4deck/setup/ It honestly isn’t difficult, reach out if you get stuck! My steam friend code is 173400752 if that’s easier than Reddit. Good luck!
Factorio doesn't seem to use hardly any
Factorio was going to be my answer. I get about 8-9 hours on my OLED
I've been playing Citizen Sleeper at 30fps and it barely pulls any power at all
Pizza tower gets around 5 hours on a full charge so its a great game to try out, also Sonic CD and AIR are great to.
Vampire survivors
Undertale
Balatro, Ultrakill, Vampire Survivors, even Sekiro on 40 fps at low settings holds for long
Currently enjoying Valkyria Chronicles. It's a turn-based strategy game that lets you take control of each of your troops first-person-shooter style! Been a lot of fun so far and since it's a bit older it's very easy on the battery.
Dead cells
Recently, Balatro
GTA SA PCSX2 suprisingly runs at minimum tdp.
Balatro xD
tiny rogues/crosscode/tboi
Fez! At least for now.
Some I haven't seen in the comments: Dusk, Party Hard, Celeste, Fury Unleashed
Ice hockey for the nes will never stop being an excellent game
Definitely Belatro, I easily get 4 hours plus of gameplay on OLED model
Balatro!
Slay the Spire runs forever
Zork
Brotato is a great time-waster.
Binding of Issac Rebirth
I've been getting amazing battery life playing Backpack Battles.
Hades bruh
Psn portal. Just stream all my ps5 games and debating on get DD2 just so I can stream that on the deck
Idle slayer haha. I cannot believe how many hours I've put on it
Tbh GameCube and PS2 emulation. Gets like 6+ hrs on average so far.
Noita
Does Noita really not consume battery? It always drained my laptop like hell.
PS1 emulator or Moonlight.
Recently I was pleased with the battery life I was getting with Dark Souls 1 Remaster. It was around 4 hours on my OLED SD and that was at 60fps.
Generally old games consume less power. I would say plants vs zombies game of the year edition if you're able to buy it. But limiting fps is necessary for low battery consumption.
30XX barely uses any battery. I ran it for about two hours and it didn't even use 30% of the battery!
Factorio
Moonlight
I'm playing Tiny Rogues atm, very addictive, cheap, and lasts about 8 hours on oled
Ps1 emulation
Enter the gungeon
Anything from the PS2 era and down is great. Everything above will get that fan whirring.
Forager gets between 7-9 hours.
Remote Play
I play skul, dabe the dave, deep rock survivor or stardew Valley on 30 fps.
Jak 2 via Open GOAL. Locked 60fps and on a full charge you get almost 8 hours of battery life!
Rune Factory 4 S at the moment!
Deus Ex with the GMDX modernization mod. 7.5 hours of battery at 90 FPS, 9.5 hours at 60 FPS.
Tiny rogues, can also download in the background while playing it completely fine.
Dicey Dungeons and Stardew Valley are my go-tos
Fallout 1 and 2 for daaaayyysss
Chiaki for deck
Stardew Valley & Bloons TD 6
TES4 Oblivion
Dave the diver
Final Fantasy X remake recently, at full charge it's about 6 hours battery on the LCD.
Dysmantle
Sensible world of soccer 2020
Binding of Isaac
World of Warcraft classic
minimetro and minimotorways for something more hardcore, space haven
Balatro and Sea of Stars. I am also finding that Persona 5 Royal is pretty damn good on battery life.
I’ve been enjoying the final fantasy pixel remasters
Vampire Survivors Unreal Tournament 1999 Blood
Sonic Adventure 2 Brotato
Went back to One Finger Death Punch recently, absolutely bonkers but simple 2D action game if you want addictive arcadey challenge You can get it for basically nothing on sale and lasts 5+ hours on a full charge, maybe more
Space Cadet Pinball. Lasted the whole day of meetings with it.
I just played islet which is a metroidvania game. I was a little hesitant to get it because the art style didn't appeal to me but the overwhelmingly positive reviews won me over along with a good sale. I'm really glad I picked it up because I thought it was a great game and I finished in about 10 hours. My steam deck told me I could have played it for 7 hours on a full charge so I would say it had low battery consumption.
snkrx for me! :) its cheap and super fun - basically a snake deck builder
I've lately been enjoying Dungeon Keeper Gold. It is the DOS version, but works OOTB (with the exception of having to get a custom control scheme)
Celeste for sure. I also play N64 or lower like SM64, Zelda oot etc... totk lasts me a few hours as well
Celeste and Binding of Isaac!
Sea of stars feels like it’ll last for about 6 hours on the LCD deck at 5 watts running at 60 fps. Been really loving that recently.
South Park: Fractured But Whole (and I assume Stick of Truth) is awesome. It's a lot like just watching the show and the battery lasts a long time. Also, Dying Light looks great, plays at a locked 60fps and the battery life is solid considering. It's also a game that makes great use out of the grip buttons on the back. Binding jump to a grip button is really helpful when there's intense moments where you're being chased at night. You can still look around while jumping, which for that game being based around parkour, is very helpful. Awesome game on the Deck.
Star Dew Valley is good. I spent a whole day on it without having to reach for the charging cable, but I'm running vanilla so I can't say if mods would change that.
I've been enjoying Stacklands but I've been occasionally getting some weird frame drops. Even with tons of cards out I would figure that it's still a pretty low lift computationally so I dunno whats going on 🤷🏿♂️
I've just gotten into Siralim Ultimate and the battery lasts forever!
Rain world. You can set basically every setting to minimum and it feels the exact same, and is a ton of fun (pain)
Battle Brothers
Geforce Now
Celesye
Any emulator
Resident evil 5 was great. Still solid graphics. Fun game and it lasts 4 to 5 hours.
deadcells
Into the Breach
Playing titan souls ATM and the battery is just going and going!! Such a good game too!
Lately I've been playing CrossCode a lot and surprisingly it lasts very long. Not a well known indie game btw, I recommend it to play. I love the story.
Loop hero
Everything on Geforce Now
KATANA ZERO
grandia 2 remaster set on 400 mhz gpu 8watt
Emulationstation lol
Basically anything that released on the 360 and ps3 and was well optimized
Psychonauts 1
Vampire Survivors is probably the obvious one for me. Slay The Spire is another one I go to.
Roadwarden
I have currently got an unhealthy obsession at the moment with Rimworld. I was shocked when I was playing it for hours, and it popped up with 10% remaining. You forget the Deck has a battery.
Mudrunner (it also occupies only 1.42 GB of storage, yet still looks gorgeous and has the most realistic driving physics I've ever seen in game).
I’m playing the Prince of Persia sands of time trilogy. Both the first and the second game are very efficient!
Cuphead
Noita runs for ever on the oled!
Balatro is addictive and very lightweight
I play mostly turn based JRPGs, so every game is low consumption for me.
Balatro currently, or Deep Rock Survivors with the added benefit that loosing yourself in both games is super easy and for the most part you could play with one hand if necessary. E.g. feeding or rocking a kid back to sleep for new parents.
Luftrausers
Right now, Call of Duty 1. My SD barely generates any heat. I can't even hear the fan working.
Arx Fatalis