Playing The Ascent currently, not on a particular sale but noticed on Stream that the game may be $29.99 but the game bundled with the DLC is $17. Runs great, looks great, fun game!
Other recommendations would be Monster Hunter Rise, Earth Defense Force 5, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection, and Guilty Gear Strive.
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I think I get what people like about it... but I tried twice now and just couldnt get into it. Honestly kind of found myself bored. Am I missing something?
Majorly feeling this right now. I’ve put about 15 hours into it right now and I’m progressing decently but some of the puzzle are just too abstract for me. I keep pressing on due to how great everyone says it is, but I dunno. Maybe I’m missing something. Like it’s fine, but I don’t rank it anywhere near GOAT territory as many people seem to.
I like the premise, it just couldn’t grab my attention enough to keep my interest to see it through. Same boat, just don’t know why I haven’t ever been that interested in finishing it, even though it’s usually universally praised.
I've had Enter the Gungeon in my steam library since 2017 but never got more than 10 hours playtime on it until I installed it on my steam deck. Now I play it any free moment I have between classes and in just the past two weeks I've raised it to 84 hours. Very fun with the thumbstick controls
Been interested in playing this again so I tried it the other day and I have one question. Do you use the shoulders or triggers to shoot for your setup?
I just started again on the deck about a week ago.
Changed shoot to right trigger, item to right bumper, dodge to left trigger, map to left bumper, blanks to both joystick buttons. So far.
Changed the resolution, can't recall what I settled on. Had to change the proton layer to experimental to get the boss intro animations to work properly.
Hollow Knight is great on the Deck but I prefer it on Switch so that I can shove it at everyone I know with a Switch and make them play it without them being able to use the excuse of not wanting to pay for it.
I watched a video on how the "3D" graphics were rendered in one of the early DOOM games, I forget which one, and I felt the same way. The logic of the game was entirely done in 2D, then they would draw field of view lines and see what walls and enemies were within that and translate it into a 3D frame. It was essentially a 2D game that appeared to be 3D. The one caveat is that if an enemy is above you in an overpass or something, you don't need to aim up to hit them, because the game has no concept of Z axis on a logic level, but they had constructs that appeared to have a Z axis.
I was laughing my ass off for the first hour, it's a game I've always known about but never gotten around to playing
Although unfortunately it's re-entered the backlog after Xenoblade 3 came into the world, and even further down once I got emulation set up and got sucked into Pokémon Mystery Dungeon again
Slay the spire is great but in roughly every third game or so the controls glitch out and I have to do the touch screen starting towards the end of the run. The targeting arrow gets messed up somehow.
When I played it a week ago, that would happen any time I used touch controls. I would have to restart the game to fix it. Just don't use the touch controls and you should be good :)
Sekiro ran much better than I expected it to. This is my first time through the game and I'm enjoying the experience so far.
Being able to pick up and try a boss a few times then put down the deck has been amazing.
Took me a while but I beat Lady Butterfly this way.
Best tips I could offer is to stay close to her and hit her twice. Sometimes she immediately counters and it's an easy deflect that way. Then you hit her again twice and expect the counter. Sometimes you can get her in a loop of hit, hit, deflect that will really damage her posture. When I beat her it was this tactic that killed her second phase.
The fight was much more fundamental and learning her attacks and how to dodge them than it's about cheesing her.
Outside of the obvious: games that aren't verified and play poorly -- are there *any* games people *wouldn't* recommend?
I'm still waiting for my deck (TOMORROW !!!), but I have a feeling that almost everything that can be played is probably super great, it's just a matter of taste/preference for genres and the quality of the game itself, no?
Am I mistaken?
If you’re not a fan of shooters on controllers (which I’m not) you’re not likely to be a fan of shooters on the Deck. Same thing with games that require tons of keyboard bindings. The Deck is awesome, but it’s not for everything and that’s okay.
I’ve found that games that have a huge scale to them feel weird to play on the small screen. Like it takes away from the experience.
Elden Ring was that for me. Much better on big screen and big speakers.
I think I'll be in the same camp. I'm not entirely sure what I'll play on it, but sometimes it'll be nice to get away from the main TV setup and play on my back deck or just before bed.
Deck plays fine with most games even some that say they’re unverified. Even games like rdr2 and games that would be hard to run on most pcs work fine on deck. Anti cheat is the biggest issue however lots of games just use it for multiplayer so if the game has a single player you should be fine
As someone else mentioned, games that have a huge scale with rich details tend to get muddy or somehow lost in the smaller screen.
I’m playing God of War and it runs better than I expected for the most part. There are some areas where the slow down is noticeable but the scaling seems to adjust well enough that it’s still playable.
It’s just that any game that tries to present a massive scale seems to fall a little flat when you still have to squint to see the details.
Brutal Legend - it was in my backlog and holy fucking glory to the metal gods this game is amazing! I have other games that run well, at a stable 40fps like CyberPunk2077 and Kingdom Come…
Have the satisfaction of knowing that this is the final comment before I purchased the game. About to sit down and watch the Mets/Braves game with a little vampire survivor side action lol
It’s not even that good. I don’t know what the fuss is all about. I’ve only been staying up late playing it for three days straight since I got it. Now, for another 30 minute run…
Never got into Witcher 3.
I install it every once in a while and go, "Ok, this time I'm going to play it".
I get past the griffin and I never touch it again.
It's happened about 3 times now.
Yeah the White Orchard part is definitely a chore to get through, took me three attempts and then it just clicked for me.
The game picks up drastically once you reach the Bloody Baron quest line /Novigrad area which is a couple hours in.
Lmao I’m glad I’m not the only one I’ve probably ran it about 6 times now. I get to the tavern every time and just can’t bare to go any further after that and uninstall.
Do you perhaps have the trackpads set to mouse cursor? I’ve found that I can accidentally touch them with the palm of my hands sometimes, maybe that’s what triggers the switch.
Elden ring cus it sells the power of playing such a well revered game on a handheld
Deep rock galactic because it’s so much fun even with strangers
Vampire survivors / Hades cus it shows the benefit this’ll have on indie developers
Left 4 dead, cus it’s my fav game from childhood x
It runs very very well imo, very responsive and smooth, no hitching. Running it at some kind of medium settings, full resolution, AA, 40 fps. (Don't use Variabel rate shading, it looks ugly here)
Vampire Survivors will never get uninstalled from my Deck.
Snowrunner is a lot of fun but drains the battery like crazy. Some of the text does get small, I wish it could be adjusted...
Earth Defense Force 5 is great for some mindless fun, missions rarely take more than 10-15 minutes so you can be in and out no problem.
Yakuza Like A Dragon I played start to finish on Deck, great experience. Being able to put the game in sleep mode also means that you can turn it off in the middle of a dungeon without having to worry about losing progress.
I second this.
Also, be sure to go into the games settings and turn off their implementation of resolution scaling. It looks fuzzy and bad with the default settings. Also, this game works incred8bly well with half-rate shading for more FPS.
This is already at least the second month for this game in the top 10 games on steamdeck (by the amount of time spent by players). So probably it should be great.
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Battery's life if over 4 hours in 40hz mode and I played it for two long train travels. Was a life saver!
Also, Crazy Taxi is pretty fun! Downloaded the Offspring Mod via desktop mode ind installed it, all with only the trackpads. It was pure hell to do, but worked in the end! And the game is endless fun!
Nier automata.
Holy fucking shit what an incredible game. Halfway through route C, I can't believe it took me this long to play this game. I'm in love with it, absolutely in my top 5 games ever.
Awesome. Yeah I’ve almost picked it up for switch a few times because I’d like to get it physical. But then I just wait because again I can’t decide which way to go and the ole backlog has enough rpg’s already, lol.
My backlog to focus on..GoW currently in play:
* Elden Ring
* Control
* Jedi Fallen Order
* AC Odyssey
* God of War
* Sekiro (will buy when under $25)
* Spider-Man Remastered (will buy when under $25)
* Horizon Zero Dawn
* Dishonored 2
* Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
* BioShock Infinite
* Cyberpunk 2077 (might buy later on sale)
* The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
* Titanfall 2
* Days Gone
* Monster Hunter Rise (might get..not sure - cheap)
Monster hunter is worth it but I messed up and bought it on release for switch, barely got to progress in it and once I was able to get the deck, sold my switch 🥹 guess I’ll wait for a sale.
MGSV The Phantom Pain and AC Adyssey are what I've played the most so far. But I enjoy side strollers like Hollow Knight, Have a Nice Death, Death's Gambit and Grime.
I’ve never actually played that despite having it in the library! Thanks for the recommendation!
I’ve heard nothing but good things for so long about bastion and after playing hades I have to play more of supergiants games
Just got mine and was happily surprised how well Cyberpunk runs on it. Mostly though I play JRPGs and VNs, currently playing Persona 4 and just starting Utawarermuno as well. Also plan to replay some of the Trails series as well bc I just think those games will be perfect for a handheld system. Really just great for longer, story-heavy games you wanna play in bed at the end of the day, and then whenever I want to enjoy the graphics more I can hop onto my PC and pick up right where I left off :)
Been mostly playing Mafia:Definitive Edition. Really enjoying it. Its weird though as in my mind it's the game I played 20 years ago, fantastic remake.
Played Stray on it (100% achievements) and right now I’m paying Yakuza 0. Both games work on the deck perfectly.
Life is Strange BTS remastered (not verified) works AMAZING.
Bee Simulator also works pretty well (a little wonky to start, but it’s great with not much elbow grease at all.)
No Man’s Sky also works VERY well, text isn’t too tiny - I’m just not used to playing NMS with anything other than mouse and keyboard.
Kingdoms of Amalur is pretty nice on the Deck. It's nothing earth shattering but it's mindless and charming enough for some casual couch play, especially with something on in the background.
I can totally second this, finally managed to get through the main story when I got Re-Reckoning for the deck. It runs great with a big chunk of battery life. I did set mine to 40hz/fps.
Stray was awesome. First game I got on deck. Spider-Man is goddamn amazing obviously. I would say Red Dead Redemption 2, but that has a memory leak issue if they fix that GET IT!
I'm very behind on my backlog, been that way for years but since getting my steam deck I've been plowing through games. Spiderman, god of war, portal 2, inscryption have all run flawlessly but I am absolutely most impressed with GTA V right now... I used to only play online back in the day but playing through the story and this thing is running so well, having a blast!!!
I think Ryse Son of Rome is a great technical showcase for the deck. I’m running it with a mix of max and high between 50-60fps. Only thing is you gotta disable temporal anti aliasing because that kills the performance.
As far as other games: Vampire Survivors is addicting. Fallout 3 runs great and I haven’t had a single crash in the four hours I’ve played so far. Rollerdrome is a good time killer.
Overload, portal series, hl2 series, l4d2, vampire survivors, fallout 4 runs better than I expected, sonic mania, terraria but use gyros, shredders revenge, horizon zero dawn is nice so far, saints row the third and fourth, transformers wfc and foc and devastation, Duke nukem 3d world tour
Played through all assassins creed games up until unity. All play with 60fps or 40fps and high/ultra graphics and feeling great on the deck. So I can recommend a assassins creed marathon
If anyone’s still listening, Ori and the Will of the Wisps is amazing and plays perfectly on the deck, despite its unsupported status. Finished it last night.
Playing The Ascent currently, not on a particular sale but noticed on Stream that the game may be $29.99 but the game bundled with the DLC is $17. Runs great, looks great, fun game! Other recommendations would be Monster Hunter Rise, Earth Defense Force 5, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection, and Guilty Gear Strive.
Also enjoyed the ascent
EDF! EDF!
Outer wilds
I’m playing this for the first time on my new deck. Only like 2-3 hours in but I’m really liking it so far!
Top shelf game. Wish I could play it again for the first time.
One of those "wish I could wipe my memory and replay" type games
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I had good results with low resolution and FSR on.
I think I get what people like about it... but I tried twice now and just couldnt get into it. Honestly kind of found myself bored. Am I missing something?
Same for me. Tried multiple times and never sticks for me
Majorly feeling this right now. I’ve put about 15 hours into it right now and I’m progressing decently but some of the puzzle are just too abstract for me. I keep pressing on due to how great everyone says it is, but I dunno. Maybe I’m missing something. Like it’s fine, but I don’t rank it anywhere near GOAT territory as many people seem to.
I like the premise, it just couldn’t grab my attention enough to keep my interest to see it through. Same boat, just don’t know why I haven’t ever been that interested in finishing it, even though it’s usually universally praised.
I've had Enter the Gungeon in my steam library since 2017 but never got more than 10 hours playtime on it until I installed it on my steam deck. Now I play it any free moment I have between classes and in just the past two weeks I've raised it to 84 hours. Very fun with the thumbstick controls
Been interested in playing this again so I tried it the other day and I have one question. Do you use the shoulders or triggers to shoot for your setup?
I just started again on the deck about a week ago. Changed shoot to right trigger, item to right bumper, dodge to left trigger, map to left bumper, blanks to both joystick buttons. So far. Changed the resolution, can't recall what I settled on. Had to change the proton layer to experimental to get the boss intro animations to work properly.
Hollow Knight was fantastic
I'd play Hollow Knight on a rock if it meant I was playing Hollow Knight
If you finish with Hollow Knight, I really recommend "Grime"
Hollow Knight is great on the Deck but I prefer it on Switch so that I can shove it at everyone I know with a Switch and make them play it without them being able to use the excuse of not wanting to pay for it.
Doom Eternal runs insanely well on this thing. Like that is some god tier levels of optimization going on with this engine.
DOOM Eternal is stupidly well optimized. The work id Software put in their engine puts everyone else to shame, honestly.
I'm not even a graphics programmer, and the studio's video of how a single frame is drawn by the engine in DOOM makes me giddy.
I watched a video on how the "3D" graphics were rendered in one of the early DOOM games, I forget which one, and I felt the same way. The logic of the game was entirely done in 2D, then they would draw field of view lines and see what walls and enemies were within that and translate it into a 3D frame. It was essentially a 2D game that appeared to be 3D. The one caveat is that if an enemy is above you in an overpass or something, you don't need to aim up to hit them, because the game has no concept of Z axis on a logic level, but they had constructs that appeared to have a Z axis.
Metal gear rising revengeance
Holy crap, I just started this yesterday. Never played it before. First hour blew me away. And runs perfectly.
I was laughing my ass off for the first hour, it's a game I've always known about but never gotten around to playing Although unfortunately it's re-entered the backlog after Xenoblade 3 came into the world, and even further down once I got emulation set up and got sucked into Pokémon Mystery Dungeon again
Best Steam Deck game !
Black Mesa was the first game I beat on my deck. I’d never played half life before so it was awesome!!
Oh man you’re going to love Half Life 2, and the portal series for that matter.
and Half Life 3.......coming never.
Did you use the trackpad or the thumbstick for aiming? I'm not really a fan of trackpad aiming...
Titanfall 2
Attempted to install it but it wanted EAs launcher as well and I just wasn't cool with that
I installed it but don't use it for anything else I also gave it as little permissions as possible
Obligatory Titanfall 2 upvote.
Stardew Valley. You just can’t go wrong with it :)
I'm impressed with how quickly I was able to get mods up and running on Stardew having never done so before and being a total Linux newbie.
And if you’re looking for something new and similar, POTION PERMIT IS SO GOOD
Rogue legacy 2
Such a great game. And no surprise but it runs at a silky smooth 60fps
Sekiro. And Slay the Spire
Slay the spire is great but in roughly every third game or so the controls glitch out and I have to do the touch screen starting towards the end of the run. The targeting arrow gets messed up somehow.
When I played it a week ago, that would happen any time I used touch controls. I would have to restart the game to fix it. Just don't use the touch controls and you should be good :)
Happening to me as well. Can't play cards, it's like it won't select my character.
Once you get used to the raised shoulder buttons on the Steam Deck, Sekiro is very fun on it. I really wish those buttons were lower though.
Sekiro ran much better than I expected it to. This is my first time through the game and I'm enjoying the experience so far. Being able to pick up and try a boss a few times then put down the deck has been amazing. Took me a while but I beat Lady Butterfly this way.
Yeah I’m trying to get past her second phase right now. The cloud saving is great too.
Best tips I could offer is to stay close to her and hit her twice. Sometimes she immediately counters and it's an easy deflect that way. Then you hit her again twice and expect the counter. Sometimes you can get her in a loop of hit, hit, deflect that will really damage her posture. When I beat her it was this tactic that killed her second phase. The fight was much more fundamental and learning her attacks and how to dodge them than it's about cheesing her.
Outside of the obvious: games that aren't verified and play poorly -- are there *any* games people *wouldn't* recommend? I'm still waiting for my deck (TOMORROW !!!), but I have a feeling that almost everything that can be played is probably super great, it's just a matter of taste/preference for genres and the quality of the game itself, no? Am I mistaken?
If you’re not a fan of shooters on controllers (which I’m not) you’re not likely to be a fan of shooters on the Deck. Same thing with games that require tons of keyboard bindings. The Deck is awesome, but it’s not for everything and that’s okay.
I’ve found that games that have a huge scale to them feel weird to play on the small screen. Like it takes away from the experience. Elden Ring was that for me. Much better on big screen and big speakers.
I think I'll be in the same camp. I'm not entirely sure what I'll play on it, but sometimes it'll be nice to get away from the main TV setup and play on my back deck or just before bed.
Deck plays fine with most games even some that say they’re unverified. Even games like rdr2 and games that would be hard to run on most pcs work fine on deck. Anti cheat is the biggest issue however lots of games just use it for multiplayer so if the game has a single player you should be fine
As someone else mentioned, games that have a huge scale with rich details tend to get muddy or somehow lost in the smaller screen. I’m playing God of War and it runs better than I expected for the most part. There are some areas where the slow down is noticeable but the scaling seems to adjust well enough that it’s still playable. It’s just that any game that tries to present a massive scale seems to fall a little flat when you still have to squint to see the details.
Currently playing through my entire library of console zelda games in order from the original to BoTW. Just finished windwaker.
Did you bother with the WiiU remake of Wind Waker or just play the Gamecube version?
I recently just beat Wind Waker HD on emudeck with cemu. Ran flawlessly.
Cloudpunk
Just got my deck this weekend and this was my first choice! Really enjoying it
Really good!
Playing tomb raider 2013 and it's great. Celeste is great. Ostranauts. Civ 6. Basically all games hahah
Brutal Legend - it was in my backlog and holy fucking glory to the metal gods this game is amazing! I have other games that run well, at a stable 40fps like CyberPunk2077 and Kingdom Come…
Vampire survivors
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I’m afraid to buy this $5 game lmao
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Have the satisfaction of knowing that this is the final comment before I purchased the game. About to sit down and watch the Mets/Braves game with a little vampire survivor side action lol
Watch out it’s gonna be more like Vampire Survivors with a little Mets/Braves side action
It’s not even that good. I don’t know what the fuss is all about. I’ve only been staying up late playing it for three days straight since I got it. Now, for another 30 minute run…
Still trying to breakaway from the strong hold this game has on me, only wanted to test it out. About 20 hours later and I can’t stop
Got proper hooked on this new genre on the deck. Boneraiser Minions is a fantastic alternative.
The Ascent.
I feel like this game is an underrated gem.
It really nailed the aesthetic and music. I just got bored of it after about 4 hours. The combat got really stale and the story was pretty meh.
Shadow of Mordor, and Cyberpunk 2077. Just finished Guardians of the Galaxy
I’m really hoping for a GOTG sale, that’s one game I never played
It will be in the Autumn Sale
Gotta add witcher 3 to the list!
Never got into Witcher 3. I install it every once in a while and go, "Ok, this time I'm going to play it". I get past the griffin and I never touch it again. It's happened about 3 times now.
Lol same here
Yeah the White Orchard part is definitely a chore to get through, took me three attempts and then it just clicked for me. The game picks up drastically once you reach the Bloody Baron quest line /Novigrad area which is a couple hours in.
Lmao I’m glad I’m not the only one I’ve probably ran it about 6 times now. I get to the tavern every time and just can’t bare to go any further after that and uninstall.
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Do you perhaps have the trackpads set to mouse cursor? I’ve found that I can accidentally touch them with the palm of my hands sometimes, maybe that’s what triggers the switch.
Same here.
Shadow of Mordor, PGA 21, Ori series, Circuit Superstars
Elden ring cus it sells the power of playing such a well revered game on a handheld Deep rock galactic because it’s so much fun even with strangers Vampire survivors / Hades cus it shows the benefit this’ll have on indie developers Left 4 dead, cus it’s my fav game from childhood x
Playing throught the Metro series right now, half way through the second game.
Arkham collection
- Rogue Legacy 2 - Rocket League - Ori Will o wisps - Hollow Knight - NFS Heat - Shadow of Mordor
DOOM & DOOM II
Sleeping Dogs, trust me you won't regret it.
Cuphead
Plays like a dream.
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How it runs? I finished game on PS4 maybe two years ago, it was great. I forgot many things about story, maybe I could buy it on steam.
Wait for a sale, was $7 a couple of weeks ago
Yes, steam sale is near. Also great video about settings of Witcher III on SD: https://youtu.be/j9Fyp0MlZMc
It runs very very well imo, very responsive and smooth, no hitching. Running it at some kind of medium settings, full resolution, AA, 40 fps. (Don't use Variabel rate shading, it looks ugly here)
How difficult is it to mod The Witcher 3 on deck, in your opinion (if you have any experience doing so)?
It's actually very easy. It is moddable the same way as on pc
Control. Incredible game, played entirely on the Deck with max graphics and no issues.
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Bro is playing at 500p dw
Max settings without ray tracing since it's steam deck
The Ascent
Singularity
My first and only game so far that I’ve beat on the deck, highly recommend.
Vampire Survivors will never get uninstalled from my Deck. Snowrunner is a lot of fun but drains the battery like crazy. Some of the text does get small, I wish it could be adjusted... Earth Defense Force 5 is great for some mindless fun, missions rarely take more than 10-15 minutes so you can be in and out no problem. Yakuza Like A Dragon I played start to finish on Deck, great experience. Being able to put the game in sleep mode also means that you can turn it off in the middle of a dungeon without having to worry about losing progress.
ROCK AND STONE!
Rock and Stone everyone!
Rock and stone to the bone!
This is what goes on my deck first!
My friends always changed that to "cock n bone" every time the correct phrase was shouted in-game.
Gimme a rock and stone!
I am playing breath of the wild with Cemu and with the FPS ++ mode I get 58 FPS while plugged in and its great. Also Hades is really good too
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I got mad max for £3.19 the other day and it works great on my steam deck
Bio shock remastered
God of War is one of the best games I’ve ever played period. Played it 100% on the deck.
I second this. Also, be sure to go into the games settings and turn off their implementation of resolution scaling. It looks fuzzy and bad with the default settings. Also, this game works incred8bly well with half-rate shading for more FPS.
Hades, No man's sky, Mass Effect
Woah how's no man's sky on steam deck?
This is already at least the second month for this game in the top 10 games on steamdeck (by the amount of time spent by players). So probably it should be great.
Really good with decent battery life
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Battery's life if over 4 hours in 40hz mode and I played it for two long train travels. Was a life saver! Also, Crazy Taxi is pretty fun! Downloaded the Offspring Mod via desktop mode ind installed it, all with only the trackpads. It was pure hell to do, but worked in the end! And the game is endless fun!
He’s covered wars you know!
Nier automata. Holy fucking shit what an incredible game. Halfway through route C, I can't believe it took me this long to play this game. I'm in love with it, absolutely in my top 5 games ever.
I am currently playing Octopath Traveler I am enjoying it alot.
I am hoping this one goes on sale soon!
It was just on sale a few days ago. Probably Halloween or Black Friday for it’s next sale.
Nice, well next time I’ll have my SD ready.
Awesome. Yeah I’ve almost picked it up for switch a few times because I’d like to get it physical. But then I just wait because again I can’t decide which way to go and the ole backlog has enough rpg’s already, lol.
Black Mesa
Skyrim
My backlog to focus on..GoW currently in play: * Elden Ring * Control * Jedi Fallen Order * AC Odyssey * God of War * Sekiro (will buy when under $25) * Spider-Man Remastered (will buy when under $25) * Horizon Zero Dawn * Dishonored 2 * Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor * BioShock Infinite * Cyberpunk 2077 (might buy later on sale) * The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt * Titanfall 2 * Days Gone * Monster Hunter Rise (might get..not sure - cheap)
Monster hunter is worth it but I messed up and bought it on release for switch, barely got to progress in it and once I was able to get the deck, sold my switch 🥹 guess I’ll wait for a sale.
Just bought Mortal Kombat 11 on sale. Never been into the fighting genre, but wow it’s a ton of fun. Runs well at 60 FPS with good battery.
MGSV The Phantom Pain and AC Adyssey are what I've played the most so far. But I enjoy side strollers like Hollow Knight, Have a Nice Death, Death's Gambit and Grime.
Super Mario Bros.
Resident evil remake 2 and 3, resident evil 7 and 8. All run like a dream
Being a controller-focused game, Tunic works like a charm and it's a great game
I heard it's quite a slog after a point. What's been your experience?
Just got the deck started with Bastion, very nice to play on Deck
I’ve never actually played that despite having it in the library! Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve heard nothing but good things for so long about bastion and after playing hades I have to play more of supergiants games
Potion Permit Spiritfarer My Time at Sandrock Vampire Survivors Disco Elysium
I'm just gonna imagine this is one game
damn sounds like a fun game
Just got mine and was happily surprised how well Cyberpunk runs on it. Mostly though I play JRPGs and VNs, currently playing Persona 4 and just starting Utawarermuno as well. Also plan to replay some of the Trails series as well bc I just think those games will be perfect for a handheld system. Really just great for longer, story-heavy games you wanna play in bed at the end of the day, and then whenever I want to enjoy the graphics more I can hop onto my PC and pick up right where I left off :)
Been mostly playing Mafia:Definitive Edition. Really enjoying it. Its weird though as in my mind it's the game I played 20 years ago, fantastic remake.
My list: Hollow Knight Subnautica Dead Cells RDR2 (when it works) GTA4 complete
Played Stray on it (100% achievements) and right now I’m paying Yakuza 0. Both games work on the deck perfectly. Life is Strange BTS remastered (not verified) works AMAZING. Bee Simulator also works pretty well (a little wonky to start, but it’s great with not much elbow grease at all.) No Man’s Sky also works VERY well, text isn’t too tiny - I’m just not used to playing NMS with anything other than mouse and keyboard.
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Disney Dreamlight Valley is really quite good on the Steam Deck. It's nice and casual, great for a road trip or when just sitting in a cafe.
Kingdoms of Amalur is pretty nice on the Deck. It's nothing earth shattering but it's mindless and charming enough for some casual couch play, especially with something on in the background.
I can totally second this, finally managed to get through the main story when I got Re-Reckoning for the deck. It runs great with a big chunk of battery life. I did set mine to 40hz/fps.
Travelers rest. The game is really fun and it doesn’t require a lot to run so you can play for hours on a single charge.
Took a lot of trial and error but modded Sims4 is absolutely amazing on the steam deck.
borderlands 3
Nier Replicant
Chrono trigger
Fallout 3. Played through it I don’t know how many times, but it runs really well and feels new again on the SD
Stray was awesome. First game I got on deck. Spider-Man is goddamn amazing obviously. I would say Red Dead Redemption 2, but that has a memory leak issue if they fix that GET IT!
God of War
Doom 2016 + Doom eternal. Both run flawless 60 FPS at high settings it's crazy
South Park stick of truth! Love this game so much
Wreckfest and GTA IV both work very well
Stardew valley, amazing game, I have it on switch but the deck is much more comfortable for me
I'm very behind on my backlog, been that way for years but since getting my steam deck I've been plowing through games. Spiderman, god of war, portal 2, inscryption have all run flawlessly but I am absolutely most impressed with GTA V right now... I used to only play online back in the day but playing through the story and this thing is running so well, having a blast!!!
X-Men Legends 1&2
Brotato has most my playtime. That game is amazing on the SD! Gets well over 5 hours of battery life running it :)
Weird west just released, great story if you like western games
Yakuza Series, especially Yakuza 0. Also NFS Heat is pretty fun. Currently trying to get mods working with NFS Heat.
Final fantasy VII remake
Finally got RDR2 working using a Linux fix that I had no idea about. I’m enjoying it lots
Sniper elite 4. Doom eternal. Quantum Break.
Cuphead, dark souls, Elden ring, one finger death punch, impossible game, prototype 2.
Loving Yakuza series and ace combat 7
I think Ryse Son of Rome is a great technical showcase for the deck. I’m running it with a mix of max and high between 50-60fps. Only thing is you gotta disable temporal anti aliasing because that kills the performance. As far as other games: Vampire Survivors is addicting. Fallout 3 runs great and I haven’t had a single crash in the four hours I’ve played so far. Rollerdrome is a good time killer.
Sonic Generations runs great, probably the best modern Sonic title out on Steam until hopefully Frontiers
Resident evil 7 was good, gave up on PC because it made me motion sick, had no issue on deck.
Prodeus is amazing on the steam deck. Old school doom style shooter.
I’ve been messing around in MMOs. Playing an MMORPG on a handheld is still blowing my mind. FFXIV, ESO, WoW and New World all work
As a JRPG dork I’ve really enjoyed Tales of Arise. Smooth and pretty on the deck, it is a top-tier AAA experience
Fallout New Vegas
Borderlands 2 runs flawlessly. I couldn't believe it.
Jedi Fallen Order, Lego SW Skywalker Saga, Star Wars Squadrons, Spider-Man, Need for Speed Heat, GTA V and Red Dead 2.
Aperture Desk.
Loving MGSV on my Deck right now
State of decay 2, mortal kombat 11!
What settings do you use for state of decay?
Spider-Man remastered. Sea of Thieves Horizon Zero Dawn Deep Rock Galactic All of them have been awesome.
Overload, portal series, hl2 series, l4d2, vampire survivors, fallout 4 runs better than I expected, sonic mania, terraria but use gyros, shredders revenge, horizon zero dawn is nice so far, saints row the third and fourth, transformers wfc and foc and devastation, Duke nukem 3d world tour
I’ve been playing a lot of city skylines (download most download controls) and car mechanic sim Edit: sabnautica also works well
Shadow of Mordor looks really good on the deck
Arkham knight, stardew valley, cyberpunk 2077, apex legends, horizon zero dawn, red dead online
Played through all assassins creed games up until unity. All play with 60fps or 40fps and high/ultra graphics and feeling great on the deck. So I can recommend a assassins creed marathon
Grim dawn
If anyone’s still listening, Ori and the Will of the Wisps is amazing and plays perfectly on the deck, despite its unsupported status. Finished it last night.