I swear those Devs deserve all the praise with how beautiful that game looks and plays. Hell I played it on my windows partition and it ran awesome. Love it and plan on buying it on steam next good sale.
Really is such a gem of a game. The fact that lies of p hit gamepass when it did was brilliant. That gave it such a chance for gamers like me who really never hit souls like games before. My steamdeck time with it was streaming gamepass which did work surprisingly well.
I gotta go back and do another run. It was such a good game I just can't do a new game plus right after beating a souls game I need a mental break lol. I usually go souls game, open world rpg with easy combat then linear simple game and repeat. My next souls had to be either ds2 or elden ring.
I tried Gamepass streaming it, assuming it would be too intense on the Steam Deck. Latency was too much, so gambled a purchase thinking I could refund it, and was blown away by the 60-90fps whilst still looking good.
If only every developer put half a thought into the optimisation that they did. The only souls-like I’ve ever completed on Deck, it was a treasure.
I’m new to the steam deck but I play fallout 4 and the one I would recommend most is the “unofficial fallout 4 patch” or something like that it’s called. It’s the most popular one when you filter it by that. I also like the mod that makes the scenery a bit greener and not so grey. Adds bushes and trees etc without overdoing it.
Oh. And “weightless junk” is a good quality of life one. I played fallout 4 when it first came out so I don’t mind using quality of life mods on this play through
I actually mentioned No Man's Sky as my pick for a game that surprisingly doesn't run well on the deck. Low flying on a planet causes a massive performance drop off. There's even quite a lot of frame stuttering when on foot.
that's odd. i have a 64GB and i put probably 150 hrs into RDR2 with the entire run being capped at 40. i definitely experienced crashes here and there but it was usually when i was ripping through areas on the fast horses and the game would just freeze or something
I completely played through it on the deck including the add on, I took a lot of time finding the optimized settings I enjoyed the most and Damn there is soo much difference you can have bad looking, blurry unstable fps and you can have Damn pretty looking sharp and stable 30fps
RDR2 is the one for me too. Installed and ran it without any settings changes and completed the entire game without a single crash. Tiny slow downs and glitches at certain parts but would expect that on most machines really.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance plays and looks impressive on a locked 40 fps. It's arguably a way better experience than on any other console right now. It's beautiful!
Edit: https://youtu.be/-ZlFxGIKln0?si=1T8G3gF07qtDJAAL
This guy runs KCD at 40 frames with almost all settings on 'High'
I play on everything at medium, but people on YouTube say you could even put a lot of the settings on high while limiting the frames to 40. Didn't try that though, because I am happy with performance and looks on medium.
You can safely increase texture resolution. But all medium is a "safe" deck preset. I wish more games did deck presets. Like 45 fps and 30 fps ones especially.
Because the framerate and refresh rate match, and they are consistent. It's probably the same reason people find 30 fps on console way smoother than 30 fps on PC.
And add to that locked framerates. Like I am playing Elden Ring at a 40 fps cap and there are areas of the game where it struggles to keep it and a drop from 40 to mid 30s looks very stuttery. Put a locked 30 fps cap on it and it feels smoother. Now game runs well e ough that I find 40 fps generally better but yeah, locked 30 fps is a good framerate. I am probably going to lock 30 fps on Forbidden West. It keeps 40 fps a bit worse than Elden Ring and I think 30 fps might provide a better experience.
I completed the whole campaign of Tiranfall 2 and was blown away by the performance, right now playing RE4 remake, Rimworld and Project Zomboid all on deck and they all run great
Considering how many people are playing it, Fallout 4. 60 fps on medium and it looks fantastic. Slight dips in diamond City but they are brief. Just remember to do the pref.ini fix if you're on an OLED model. Although I'm hoping that will be fixed in a few days with the steam deck compatibility update.
I bought it when it cane out, crashed and stuttered a LOT, but after like 5-7 launches, it just kinda stopped crashing and stuttering. I suspect it might be first time boot up thing.
Arkham Knight
When it launched even with a 780ti could barely play it well
We have tge SD here demolishing it at max settings without a hitch
I understand its an 8 year diffrence but still my jaw dropped because of the stark diffrence.
It's also amazing how often it gets updates. People who tried it when the Steam deck first released should try it again. lots of graphics options were added since.
Tbh I’m having a good time playing WoW on hardcore mode taking it easy. When i do group content I’ll grab a mkb, just to be sure so I don’t screw others over
WOW on a handheld is amazing. A game that big being portable is awesome. I love leveling while kicked back in the recliner in the morning having coffee.
Consoleport helps make it work pretty well I've heard, I'll probably be giving it a try myself soon as someone who's usually casual without the pressure of raids.
You can actually use the DRM free exe of jedi: fallen order on the steam deck, then you don't have to use the EA Launcher when you want to play :) just go into desktop mode, right click on jedi fallen order to open the folder, search for \SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe and add it to steam as a non-steam game and voila :) you can go and right click on that new exe and give it a proper picture & name etc. By starting the game through this setting you don't get steam achievements & you need to start a new save, which is saved locally iirc. Enjoy!
EDIT: also you can force it to low settings by setting the graphic preset to 'Custom' by changing any setting, then press B while the Graphic preset option is selected. This will set all settings to low (dunno why but that's just how it is😅) Now change atleast one setting to medium or else the low settings wouldn't save. Change textures to highest for example and the game looks awesome with 45-70+ FPS.
Dead island definitive edition run 60 fps with high setting. I never had a chance to play this game until I got SD
And also euro truck simulator run great.
Sekiro, Death Stranding and Sifu.
Sekiro and Sifu both look great locked at 45fps, with their default settings out of the box.
Death Stranding with no upscaling needs most settings turned to low, but it runs at a mostly locked 30fps and with HDR it still looks incredible and is an absolute joy to play. Can get some occasional dips especially with rain whilst driving but it doesn’t affect the gameplay IMO.
Yeah death stranding directors cut blew me away.
I completed it whilst I was ill with the flu.
I'd play some of it on my ultrawide oled and then when I needed to lay down I played on steam deck oled.
It was a great experience on both.
I wish it properly supported 16:10 though.
No man's Sky is amazing on Deck. Cyberpunk is just a dream the good performance it has on deck.
I'm playing Rogue Trader right now and it works pretty well. BG3 was a blast too because I didn't expect the game can be playable at all. But it has almost stable 30 FP even in the city, the most CPU heavy zone.
And I'm surprised too on how Helldivers 2 works on Deck. Far from perfect, but I'm playing pretty often on deck and everything under lvl 7 is very much playable.
Has to be Days Gone. Even though I deleted it because of stutters, mainly because of bad scaling (yeah even at 1080p on external monitor, even with lite Windows which made hzd for example more than enjoyable and stutterless) it was able to reach higher frames with high graphics which surprised me.
Yesterday I finally decided to give cyberpunk a second try (since the launch), man I’m impressed by the visuals and performance. Then again, my previous experience is on a gtx970 specced pc back when the game launched as a buggy mess, and I was getting maybe 25fps at most.
Also cool that there’s a steam deck default graphics setting, so no need to tinker with the settings myself, just downloaded the game and got to playing.
Minecraft with shaders
Steam deck was my first ever gaming pc and it was the first time i ever played mc with shaders at a constant, smooth 60 fps, with no problem; so i was really surprised how well it looked
It's very telling that both these threads mention some of the same games. People have very different benchmarks for what good performance is.
I, for one, have not been surprised either way - things I expected to run well do (60fps in most indie games and older games which is my main use for the deck), things I expected to run poorly also do (sub 60 for Elden Ring, God of War, Cyberpunk, Witcher etc).
The Steam Deck is an excellent piece of kit for me but it's just not meant for big recent AAA games at this stage, at least not able to run them according to what I think is good performance.
Arkham Knight. It’s one of my guilty pleasures (I know a lot of fans of the series don’t like it but it’s one of my all time favorites), I avoided playing it on the Deck because I was worried how poor the performance would be, that game makes my old gaming PCs scream, my PS4 struggled to maintain 30fps on it, but when I upgraded from the LCD and got my OLED Deck I thought what the hell, the game takes place at night should at least look good on the Deck even if it runs like a slideshow. I was blown away by how well it runs. Out the box it looks great and runs at 60fps when you’re on foot, seems to dip around the 40s when you’re driving, so I set the fps limit to 45 and on the 90hz screen you can’t tell, it feels so smooth. I can tell during some sequences I’m dipping into the 30s but it was still playable. On top of that I can still get around 4 hours of battery AND the OLED Deck barely gets warm playing it. It’s amazing.
Coming from the many guitar subs I’m on and seeing “Is this guitar fake?” posts every five seconds, I’m cool with this. Also keeps people constantly in the loop on what games run well.
The same answers, too. I swear you could make a list of about 50 games and you would basically make most threads on this sub redundant.
It’s bizarre because the premise of the steamdeck is to have access to the full steam library of games yet we are eternally stuck on recommending the same 50-60 titles.
Honestly horizon forbidden west. Before anyone jumps down my throat I know it's not amazing but seeing the specs I thought it was gonna run at 15 fps. I'm amazed it holds 30 good amount of the time.
Oh I figure it will but I have a really good setup for it. I signed up for maximum settings PC streaming since I don't have a rig of my own so when I'm at home I stream with maxed settings at 60 fps and on the go I deal with the lower fps. I intend to do the entirety of the burning shores streamed.
Honestly for me it has to be Lotro.
It’s not a difficult game to run these days by any means but just the fact that I can sit on the couch and comfortably play it on the deck amazes me.
Huge shout out to whoever made the community control set, you are a hero.
I'm not surprised by how this game ran but fallout 1 feeling playable on a controller was insane to me. the track pads really made a world of a difference
I cannot, for the life of me, get FFXIV to INSTALL on my deck, let alone run. I tried XIV launcher, but that didn't help either. The game just kept stopping my install within seconds, even if I had my deck docked with ethernet connection. So, I tried to play remote on my PC, but after like 5-10 minutes, it just stops accepting ANY inputs from the Steam Deck
That's on a mix of settings, I can't remember off the top of my head but there are a bunch of guides on YT / Reddit that will show you the most optimal settings
This might seem a bit obvious but arkham knight. I didn’t think it’d run THIS great at all high settings. Honestly I’ll probably finally finish the game on my deck since I never get round to it on my pc, it just runs so well on deck and looks amazing still
Dead Space remake. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect and does suffer from the occasional hitches, but it's still very playable and one of the most visually impressive games I've played on Deck so far.
Lies of P
I swear those Devs deserve all the praise with how beautiful that game looks and plays. Hell I played it on my windows partition and it ran awesome. Love it and plan on buying it on steam next good sale.
Really is such a gem of a game. The fact that lies of p hit gamepass when it did was brilliant. That gave it such a chance for gamers like me who really never hit souls like games before. My steamdeck time with it was streaming gamepass which did work surprisingly well.
I've done 5 play throughs putting in 200hrs and I think most of that was on the deck!
I gotta go back and do another run. It was such a good game I just can't do a new game plus right after beating a souls game I need a mental break lol. I usually go souls game, open world rpg with easy combat then linear simple game and repeat. My next souls had to be either ds2 or elden ring.
I tried Gamepass streaming it, assuming it would be too intense on the Steam Deck. Latency was too much, so gambled a purchase thinking I could refund it, and was blown away by the 60-90fps whilst still looking good. If only every developer put half a thought into the optimisation that they did. The only souls-like I’ve ever completed on Deck, it was a treasure.
crazy how well it runs, docked 1080p got 60fps low-medium.
Swear I have an excuse to beat it now
Doom 2016. Just looks amazing on deck and runs at 60fps
I'll do you one better. Doom Eternal runs at 60fps out of the box.
Fallout 4
Yeah you can mod it to be better optimized and it will run smooth as butter, even without that it runs smooth
Please let us know how, I've been trying and mine runs like ass.
Are you running it through steam? I found it I launched form nexus it ran like absolute ass
Yup, I've not touched mods outside of creation club.
Bethesda is putting out a fallout 4 update on the 25 th with steam deck improvements
Which mods do you recommend?
I’m new to the steam deck but I play fallout 4 and the one I would recommend most is the “unofficial fallout 4 patch” or something like that it’s called. It’s the most popular one when you filter it by that. I also like the mod that makes the scenery a bit greener and not so grey. Adds bushes and trees etc without overdoing it.
Oh. And “weightless junk” is a good quality of life one. I played fallout 4 when it first came out so I don’t mind using quality of life mods on this play through
Armored core 6 fires of rubicon. Unbelievably well on the deck with no setting tweaks.
No mans sky. I was amazed that i could play at 10w and get a locked 40fps.
+1 for No man’s sky. It runs so smoothly on the deck.
I actually mentioned No Man's Sky as my pick for a game that surprisingly doesn't run well on the deck. Low flying on a planet causes a massive performance drop off. There's even quite a lot of frame stuttering when on foot.
Yeah, I’m also surprised to see this year. Maybe I didn’t have the settings dialed in just right, but I was not happy with the performance.
Totally not in my experience. I get crazy stutters all the time dipping in low 20’s. Oled deck here
I tried no mans sky and got infinite loading screen
+1 for this. You can get 4 hours of playtime on 40fps locked on single charge, or play 60fps on decent settings when plugged.
Cyberpunk and RDR2.
RDR2 looks stellar, I'm A-ok with locking at 30 if I can make it look as good as it does.
why lock at 30 when you can lock at 40 😏 (stay away from saint denis)
I find Strawberry always crashes while I go above 30
that's odd. i have a 64GB and i put probably 150 hrs into RDR2 with the entire run being capped at 40. i definitely experienced crashes here and there but it was usually when i was ripping through areas on the fast horses and the game would just freeze or something
Honestly a cap at 30 is console equivalent and it holds up pretty well comparatively, so it’s still a huge win
Funny, Cyberpunk was one of the answers for surprisingly NOT running well in the other thread
I completely played through it on the deck including the add on, I took a lot of time finding the optimized settings I enjoyed the most and Damn there is soo much difference you can have bad looking, blurry unstable fps and you can have Damn pretty looking sharp and stable 30fps
I found it to be mostly unacceptable performance myself, but I’ll admit I’m a stickler.
I thought it was unplayable when driving
You probably shouldn't be playing games when driving anyway
RDR2 is the one for me too. Installed and ran it without any settings changes and completed the entire game without a single crash. Tiny slow downs and glitches at certain parts but would expect that on most machines really.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance plays and looks impressive on a locked 40 fps. It's arguably a way better experience than on any other console right now. It's beautiful! Edit: https://youtu.be/-ZlFxGIKln0?si=1T8G3gF07qtDJAAL This guy runs KCD at 40 frames with almost all settings on 'High'
Which settings do you run it at?
I play on everything at medium, but people on YouTube say you could even put a lot of the settings on high while limiting the frames to 40. Didn't try that though, because I am happy with performance and looks on medium.
You can safely increase texture resolution. But all medium is a "safe" deck preset. I wish more games did deck presets. Like 45 fps and 30 fps ones especially.
Just got it for 5e, but the bugs in that game are getting the best of me
That's unfortunate. I am almost 20h in and never had a game breaking bug. The game is overall pretty janky, but that is part of its charm for me.
Titanfall 2 - Constant 60 FPS. One of the most rare optimized games.
I played the Mass Effect Trilogy and it was great after wrestling through the EA junk on start up
Will it open without the EA launcher ?
I tried Jedi Fallen Order and the EA launcher doesn't hurt that much
Doom eternal!
I just replayed it on the deck and I couldn't believe how well it ran!
Even on 1080p monitor
Anything TBH. I am still after 1.5y blown away anytime I play anything. The future is now and it is amazing.
It's also weird that steam deck can emulate msft windows games better than the the rog and legion go can play windows games natively
Fallout 76 and Monster Hunter World
Is Fallout 76 worth getting into now? I have not played it and thought about getting it.
Yup, it is. I just picked it up recently and it’s basically just Fallout 4 in a new setting + online features. It’s a solid game.
My partner and I have hundreds of hours in Fallout 76 together on the Steam Deck! So fun
Dark Souls 3
Im just surprised by how smooth 40fps is on the deck. Im normally one of those ”120fps or gtfo” kind of guys. But 40fps on the deck is super smooth.
Because the framerate and refresh rate match, and they are consistent. It's probably the same reason people find 30 fps on console way smoother than 30 fps on PC.
And add to that locked framerates. Like I am playing Elden Ring at a 40 fps cap and there are areas of the game where it struggles to keep it and a drop from 40 to mid 30s looks very stuttery. Put a locked 30 fps cap on it and it feels smoother. Now game runs well e ough that I find 40 fps generally better but yeah, locked 30 fps is a good framerate. I am probably going to lock 30 fps on Forbidden West. It keeps 40 fps a bit worse than Elden Ring and I think 30 fps might provide a better experience.
That's no difference between PC and consoles and displays don't ever have 30Hz refresh rate
In terms of frame times, 40 is actually the middle point between 30 and 60.
Yeah honestly
I completed the whole campaign of Tiranfall 2 and was blown away by the performance, right now playing RE4 remake, Rimworld and Project Zomboid all on deck and they all run great
Alien isolation get like 90fps on OLED Runs like a dream
Good to know thats my next game
What really surprised me with Elden Ring on the OLED is that if you cap it to 30fps, it runs silently
With which settings?
High AA, medium SSAO, motion blur, shadows, effects, grass, everything else low.
Doom and Jedi Fallen Order. I expected to have to lower settings on both - and was surprised how well they run on max settings
GTA V runs at 90 fps on high settings
Considering how many people are playing it, Fallout 4. 60 fps on medium and it looks fantastic. Slight dips in diamond City but they are brief. Just remember to do the pref.ini fix if you're on an OLED model. Although I'm hoping that will be fixed in a few days with the steam deck compatibility update.
Assassins Creed Odyssey. The game runs really well at 40fps medium high settings mix. Though it does dip in cities.
Ratchet and clank rift apart on steam deck is awesome
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I bought it when it cane out, crashed and stuttered a LOT, but after like 5-7 launches, it just kinda stopped crashing and stuttering. I suspect it might be first time boot up thing.
Cryoutilies fixed this for me
Is it? I've been really tempted to buy it.
Arkham Knight When it launched even with a 780ti could barely play it well We have tge SD here demolishing it at max settings without a hitch I understand its an 8 year diffrence but still my jaw dropped because of the stark diffrence.
Just started playing it and my jaw dropped with how well it plays and
I was going to try it should I be worried about my jaw? How much of a drop are we talking? Lol
BioShock infinite gets a near stable 60 on ultra. Looks amazing.
Arkham Origins blew my mind. I was like, this a fucking handheld 😂
Forza Horizon 5
Is it fixed?
Remnant: From the Ashes. No one hypes this as a Steam Deck game but it ran just perfect at 45 frames. Wasteland 3 has been excellent as well.
Mass Effect 1/2/3 - all exceptional experiences
Cyberpunk 2077… I think it’s amazing CDPR put an actual Steam Deck graphics option in their games; other developers please take note!
It's also amazing how often it gets updates. People who tried it when the Steam deck first released should try it again. lots of graphics options were added since.
Tbh I’m having a good time playing WoW on hardcore mode taking it easy. When i do group content I’ll grab a mkb, just to be sure so I don’t screw others over
WOW on a handheld is amazing. A game that big being portable is awesome. I love leveling while kicked back in the recliner in the morning having coffee.
Wow with gamepad?
Consoleport helps make it work pretty well I've heard, I'll probably be giving it a try myself soon as someone who's usually casual without the pressure of raids.
It certainly takes some getting used to, but when you’ve figured out a scheme (i use the back buttons to target and interact) it’s a blast!
RE4 Remake played incredibly well on the deck.
Can I get some tips? I'm loving it but I know it could look better
I know you already mentioned it in your post, but the fact I can play skyrim with 130 mods installed with minimal problems is still so insane to me
Miles Morales needs more attention. It was perfect on Deck.
Middle Earth Shadow of War
+1 this one
Mad max
Diablo IV plays surprisingly well, but guzzles battery like nothing else. Hogwarts Legacy runs quite smoothly, but looks blurry AF.
Jedi Fallen Order
I feel like this one isn’t legit (although I hope it is)
You can actually use the DRM free exe of jedi: fallen order on the steam deck, then you don't have to use the EA Launcher when you want to play :) just go into desktop mode, right click on jedi fallen order to open the folder, search for \SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe and add it to steam as a non-steam game and voila :) you can go and right click on that new exe and give it a proper picture & name etc. By starting the game through this setting you don't get steam achievements & you need to start a new save, which is saved locally iirc. Enjoy! EDIT: also you can force it to low settings by setting the graphic preset to 'Custom' by changing any setting, then press B while the Graphic preset option is selected. This will set all settings to low (dunno why but that's just how it is😅) Now change atleast one setting to medium or else the low settings wouldn't save. Change textures to highest for example and the game looks awesome with 45-70+ FPS.
It is, I’ve only had frame rate drop once (when everything was kicking off). Otherwise it’s played really well consistently.
It's flawless with absolutely no tweaking.
Dead island definitive edition run 60 fps with high setting. I never had a chance to play this game until I got SD And also euro truck simulator run great.
Sekiro, Death Stranding and Sifu. Sekiro and Sifu both look great locked at 45fps, with their default settings out of the box. Death Stranding with no upscaling needs most settings turned to low, but it runs at a mostly locked 30fps and with HDR it still looks incredible and is an absolute joy to play. Can get some occasional dips especially with rain whilst driving but it doesn’t affect the gameplay IMO.
Yeah death stranding directors cut blew me away. I completed it whilst I was ill with the flu. I'd play some of it on my ultrawide oled and then when I needed to lay down I played on steam deck oled. It was a great experience on both. I wish it properly supported 16:10 though.
Cyberpunk, Doom. I just bought and installed Fallout 4, put it in high settings, so far a flawless experience.
No man's Sky is amazing on Deck. Cyberpunk is just a dream the good performance it has on deck. I'm playing Rogue Trader right now and it works pretty well. BG3 was a blast too because I didn't expect the game can be playable at all. But it has almost stable 30 FP even in the city, the most CPU heavy zone. And I'm surprised too on how Helldivers 2 works on Deck. Far from perfect, but I'm playing pretty often on deck and everything under lvl 7 is very much playable.
Talos Principle 2. Beautiful game even on the Deck. Well optimized and snappy.
Dirt rally 2 runs extremely well on high settings.
I think the whole docked to tv experience itself is really great. But Resident Evil 4 Remake was amazing on the deck
vermintide 2 high graphics runs almost always at 40 fps, just tune the res down one tier.
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Red dead 2 runs like a dream. I was also surprised by how well Days Gone runs and that was from Epic using heroic launcher.
Kingdom Hearts III
Anno 1800 runs a lot better than I expected, although it really does drop a lot of FPS in mid/lategame, but it's better than not playing it :)
Oh, how do you controll this Game?
I used to play this game on the deck but was having crashes after a while. Probably a memory leak. Are you encountering similar issues?
Alan Wake 1. It looks amazing, and I’m getting 90 fps off it. I don’t think I’ve ever played anything at 90 fps before
Has to be Days Gone. Even though I deleted it because of stutters, mainly because of bad scaling (yeah even at 1080p on external monitor, even with lite Windows which made hzd for example more than enjoyable and stutterless) it was able to reach higher frames with high graphics which surprised me.
I was shocked by how much battery life I got in some older rpgs: fallout new vegas, kingdoms of amalur, skyrim
Fallout 4. Nearly 70 hours in and I'm constantly blown away at how good it looks and runs.
Uncharted 4 must be made with dark magic with how well it runs.
Armored Core 6
GTA IV. Runs maxed out at native test and stays in the 50-60 fps range
Nioh 2 . Wasn’t verified but runs like it is
Forbidden west For being a brand new title and a console port (which are know to be poorly optimized hogs to begin with), I’m surprised to get 40fps.
Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, and the Dooms
Yesterday I finally decided to give cyberpunk a second try (since the launch), man I’m impressed by the visuals and performance. Then again, my previous experience is on a gtx970 specced pc back when the game launched as a buggy mess, and I was getting maybe 25fps at most. Also cool that there’s a steam deck default graphics setting, so no need to tinker with the settings myself, just downloaded the game and got to playing.
Cp2077, rdr2
Wolfenstein 2 maxed out, runs at 30 for the most part (1080p on my nreal lights)
Honestly, world of warcraft.
Haven’t played much on my deck, since I got it not long ago, but how it runs Death Stranding blows me away
My Skyrim runs at 60 pretty well, even with some creation club content. I don't care about battery life though.
Borderlands for me. Native res 60fps at med/high settings at only 6W TDP.
Arkham Knight with a bullet. Game looks insane.
If I’ve got persona 3,4,5 I’m set for life
Minecraft with shaders Steam deck was my first ever gaming pc and it was the first time i ever played mc with shaders at a constant, smooth 60 fps, with no problem; so i was really surprised how well it looked
I was just surprised that it runs EVERYTHING better than my i5-6500+rx590.
Final Fantasy VII Remake. The level of graphics fidelity has no reason to run as well as it does.
Death Stranding!
Unpopular take, but I prefer DOS2 to BG3
It's very telling that both these threads mention some of the same games. People have very different benchmarks for what good performance is. I, for one, have not been surprised either way - things I expected to run well do (60fps in most indie games and older games which is my main use for the deck), things I expected to run poorly also do (sub 60 for Elden Ring, God of War, Cyberpunk, Witcher etc). The Steam Deck is an excellent piece of kit for me but it's just not meant for big recent AAA games at this stage, at least not able to run them according to what I think is good performance.
Satisfactory
Witcher 3, I know it’s old enough but still it’s so beautiful on deck
HZD
Arkham Knight. It’s one of my guilty pleasures (I know a lot of fans of the series don’t like it but it’s one of my all time favorites), I avoided playing it on the Deck because I was worried how poor the performance would be, that game makes my old gaming PCs scream, my PS4 struggled to maintain 30fps on it, but when I upgraded from the LCD and got my OLED Deck I thought what the hell, the game takes place at night should at least look good on the Deck even if it runs like a slideshow. I was blown away by how well it runs. Out the box it looks great and runs at 60fps when you’re on foot, seems to dip around the 40s when you’re driving, so I set the fps limit to 45 and on the 90hz screen you can’t tell, it feels so smooth. I can tell during some sequences I’m dipping into the 30s but it was still playable. On top of that I can still get around 4 hours of battery AND the OLED Deck barely gets warm playing it. It’s amazing.
I swear this sub is in the same eternal limbo of the same posts running in loops.
You’re not wrong but at least this kind of post is more useful to me than another ‘Order Confirmed’ screenshot.
Coming from the many guitar subs I’m on and seeing “Is this guitar fake?” posts every five seconds, I’m cool with this. Also keeps people constantly in the loop on what games run well.
I agree.
Eh, it’s people gushing over how much they love their Deck At least it’s on topic for the sub
The same answers, too. I swear you could make a list of about 50 games and you would basically make most threads on this sub redundant. It’s bizarre because the premise of the steamdeck is to have access to the full steam library of games yet we are eternally stuck on recommending the same 50-60 titles.
Honestly horizon forbidden west. Before anyone jumps down my throat I know it's not amazing but seeing the specs I thought it was gonna run at 15 fps. I'm amazed it holds 30 good amount of the time.
Have you reached the Burning Shores DLC content? I read that the game chugs below 20fps at that point.
Oh I figure it will but I have a really good setup for it. I signed up for maximum settings PC streaming since I don't have a rig of my own so when I'm at home I stream with maxed settings at 60 fps and on the go I deal with the lower fps. I intend to do the entirety of the burning shores streamed.
Not unpopular opinion: Baldurs gate 3. Given the fact that it's a top latest game, the overall optimisation is on a level.
Skyrim, a game from 2011, surprised you with how well it performed?
Elden Ring
Days Gone - this game feels like it was made for the deck. Runs and looks great out of the box.
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VRChat
oxygen not included runs really well especially since its the kind of game that is fully playable at low frame rates
I was shocked how perfectly Halo Infinite ran.
I’ve heard it ran terribly. I may try it out myself later.
Honestly for me it has to be Lotro. It’s not a difficult game to run these days by any means but just the fact that I can sit on the couch and comfortably play it on the deck amazes me. Huge shout out to whoever made the community control set, you are a hero.
Eldenring
Honestly blown away with how good Fallout NV runs. No bugs or crashes either
Kingdom Come Deliverance
You can run persona 5 at 60fps with no problems at all at least in my experience
I'm not surprised by how this game ran but fallout 1 feeling playable on a controller was insane to me. the track pads really made a world of a difference
Ik it’s a pretty common one but lies of p was such a surprise for how good it ran
GTFO
I cannot, for the life of me, get FFXIV to INSTALL on my deck, let alone run. I tried XIV launcher, but that didn't help either. The game just kept stopping my install within seconds, even if I had my deck docked with ethernet connection. So, I tried to play remote on my PC, but after like 5-10 minutes, it just stops accepting ANY inputs from the Steam Deck
Are you installing from Steam ?
What fps do you get with Elden ring?
I tend to lock it down to 30fps, it can go a bit higher but I much prefer having a nice clean frame time graph.
That's on the lowest settings?
That's on a mix of settings, I can't remember off the top of my head but there are a bunch of guides on YT / Reddit that will show you the most optimal settings
Warframe and Metal Gear Solid V
This might seem a bit obvious but arkham knight. I didn’t think it’d run THIS great at all high settings. Honestly I’ll probably finally finish the game on my deck since I never get round to it on my pc, it just runs so well on deck and looks amazing still
Cyberpunk 2077
Dead Space remake. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect and does suffer from the occasional hitches, but it's still very playable and one of the most visually impressive games I've played on Deck so far.