What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
Played again The Outer Worlds and DLCs a couple weeks back and preferred the deck experience over my first play-through on the XBox. Currently playing High on Life and I’m not really convinced, way to linear and controls are… not really optimal.
All time favorite: No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley, Witcher3
Path of Exile. It’s been great on the Steam Deck and I’m going through the last few days of this league. Once that finishes I’ll start putting a lot more time into Street Fighter 6 (with the compact portable hitbox controller I made) and some Eldest Souls on the side.
Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.
Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.
Tiny text and 40s eyes cause me to want to play a lot of stuff docked, but Hollow Knight was a fantastic experience on the Deck.
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Morrowind.
I got the Deck from Summer Sale and since then I’ve been playing:
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Been waiting to play this one for years, but haven’t had Playstation since PS2 or proper desktop PC in years. SD fulfilled all my expectations, never getting a desktop PC anymore!
- Halls of Torment
- Enjoyed Vampire Survivors on Xbox, enjoying this one
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Seems really “meh”, so played only couple of hours.
- Horizon Zero Dawn
Only just got my Deck. Still in the process of doing upgrades and mods. But while I have been testing my overclock and cooling mods and whatnot, I have put a few hours into Elden Ring and it’s awesome on the Deck. The load times are insanely fast compared to my actual high-end gaming laptop. Looking forward to starting a new save on the Deck, after I have everything setup the way I want it. Waiting on a 2tb ssd to replace the 1tb that I just put in the a few days ago. Need to get that swap done before I can finish the cooling mod.
I’ve also put a couple of hours into the Demon Slayer game while testing. That game runs at a locked 60 fps, and plays amazingly.
Just finished Death Stranding. It’s mostly great but somehow crashed a fair bit halfway through the game. No issues or whatsoever in early and late to end game.
Tales of Phantasia, Far Cry 4, Control, Divinity 2, Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster.
Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster is like, the 4th version of FF1 I’ve played and the most polished. Would definitely recommend.
I like the setting of Far Cry 4, but I think I was more engaged by Far Cry 3’s story.
Divinity 2 is way different than any other game in the series, being a 3rd person action RPG. It’s ok. Nothing to write home about.
Tales of Phantasia I’m playing the PS1 version translated from Japanese. It’s the first game in the long running Tails series, and is absolutely wonderful. I’m near the end and just found out that the best version is the PSP copy that comes bundled in Tales of Phantasia X Nakiri Dungeon, the sequel, and has full voice acting(albeit in Japanese). The only version that made it to the states is the far inferior GBA version, which I own a physical copy of, but I am currently WAY further than I ever got on GBA.
Control is absolutely one of the best games I’ve ever played. Thr rich lore, superb game play, relatively glitch free, full sense of progression, metroidvania-like in its design, plenty of side quests, diversions, and collectibles. 10/10
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Just started Elden Ring for the first time a few days back. First game I played where I was generally blown away how well it runs and looks for a handheld PC.
I have a Diablo 4 addiction. It runs surprisingly well on my Deck. Only problem is it requires the internet, so I can’t play it anywhere outside of the house.
I’m baffled by how poorly Diablo 4 handles “mediocre” connections. I have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while and I’m even able to stream GeForce Now reasonably well, but I run into lag spikes on Diablo 4.
I don’t think it’s a network problem. I think Diablo has a memory leak that causes issues that are especially noticeable on the Steam Deck. I’ve heard it’s getting patched out soon, but not sure where I got that info from. One of my Discord friends I think…
Rain World, gotta 100% the game.
I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky, but just picked up Shadows of Doubt and have been having a blast with that.
Shadows of Doubt has a weird bug
where loading into the initial menu takes several minutes instead of a few seconds.Edit: Update came out today that fixed this! Haven’t figured out why yet, but the developer is working on a fix and the game runs pretty decently outside of that. Using a community control scheme is recommended because the default controller scheme leaves something to be desired.I’ve just wishlisted Shadows of Doubt. Seems interesting.
Fanatical actually has it on sale right now for 30% off. Biggest sale on steam so far is just a 20% sale, so the fanatical deal is pretty good.
I’m currently playing 7 Days to Die. I’m late to the game but with the new Alpha 21 update it runs pretty well on the Deck. I had to rework some of the bindings and set the loader to Vulkan compatibility but I’m getting a consistent 45 to 60 fps in all but the most crowded cities. Haven’t gone past my 3rd horde night so I’m not sure how the masses are going to cripple the game. Having a lot of fun though.
With the release of Book of Hours just around the corner, I dug out Cultist Simulator again. It runs well enough on the Steam Deck, but it needs mouse input (-> touchpads), and sometimes it flickers (this seems to be related to autosaves).
Overall it works well enough on the Deck so that it’s fun to play. The flickering is annoying though.
