What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
Just started Witcher 3. Had no idea what I was missing.
Is it working well ? What settings are you using ?
Yeah it runs really smooth, it even has a steam deck settings preset
Dave the diver. Game keeps so surprising me, its so good! 30 hours in and it feels like i just started, works flawless on the deck aswell.
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.
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
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 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.
Blasphemous right now. Plays excel·lent bar some issues with resolution. Changing resolution can result in the game freezing when doing an attack, and it keeps happening even if you relaunch the game. I found somewhere that shutting off and on the deck solves it, and it’s true.
As for gameplay having downed three bosses (+ the tutorial one at the start), it’s fun! Maybe too cryptic for my taste, I’ve had to open a guide a couple of times. But the gameplay it’s tight and challenging.
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Morrowind.
Thanks to the Baldur’s Gate 3 hype, decided to finally jump into a CRPG and went with Divinity Original Sin 2 DE after trying Pillars of Eternity DE. I tried before, but didn’t have the right mindset.
Loving DOS2 now!
It’s a classic. I’m going to revisit it after my BG3 playthrough. I never did complete it previously.
Finished Dave the Diver, loved it!
Now playing Halls of Torment, have played and finished Vampire Hunters, HOT is a bit different, I miss the swinging music of VH. that said it’s fun to figure out and explore HOT.
Same. Dave the Diver ! It’s so cool !
Diablo and Dave the Diver
Woo Dave the Diver!
Great game for the Deck
I’ve been on a Binding of Isaac binge. I thought that I had my fill with it over the years but the deck has really put a new life into it. It’s a perfect fit. And I am finding myself playing it again even on the desktop. I thought that I wasn’t gonna need Repentence but I guess I will have to get it now.
I have 1000 hours on Repentance on Steamdeck and it’s fantastic. Really recommend it
It’s my favorite game. Deck is great for it. Isaac anywhere. Great battery life on it too.
What control layout are you using? I tried to install this a while back (maybe a year ago?) And at the time the control layouts I found were horrible and made it no fun to play.
I was used to the standard layout from playing on the desktop so I didn’t even bother to look at alternatives: move with left stick, shoot with buttons, activate items with triggers and bumpers.
I am curious which part are you unhappy with. Should be easy to customize.
I’d have to go back and reinstall. Maybe I did something wrong, but I remember it like, not even working to control it.
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
Control, after finishing quantum break and Alan wake before.
Control is really good, I beat it earlier this year.
I have Alan Wake and Quantum Break in my library, going to try to play them later once I catch up on some other parts of my backlog.
Both good games as well and they run flawless on the SD. It’s also fun to compare the games side by side and see the progress (mostly).
Just finished up Assassin’s Creed 2 - my all-time favorite game but first time playing since I had my Xbox 360. I remembered the free-running/parkour being a bit finicky but this time around it was just infuriating. Also had a hard time with some of the controls being bound correctly (navigating the map being the worst offender). I still recommend the game because the campaign, the modern day story, and the historical conspiracies sub-plot are just too good IMO. I just also found a good chunk of my time spent yelling at Ezio to jump where I wanted him to go.
Started up Dinkum for some casual play - just have an hour or so played but seems to be good so far. Not sure how much I’ll play of it - I get kind of bored with this style of game. Looking for some pointers with getting started. (Same thing happened with Stardew Valley for me)
Spyro Reignited has been really fun to pickup for quick play sessions. I do get more stutters than I’d expect on the Deck when loading levels. Think my graphics are all set to medium so prob need to tinker to get those smoothed out. Definitely recommend this game though.
