Tears of the kingdom! emulation has been making strides recently
Is there a tutorial you can recommend? Not long after it came out I managed to get it running, but only in desktop mode, and input wasn't working at all.
you will need to add Yuzu as a non steam game in desktop mode then you can find it in game mode on that tab. before launching any games at least for me I have to use the touchscreen to launch them at first.
As for input, check the controller settings then go to controller layouts and the community tab, some people have made layouts for it. you might have to experiment with different ones a bit till you find one you like though.
You could try steam rom manager. It allows you to add your roms and/or emulators to your steam list from one app. It comes with emudeck but I think you can get it separately if you don't want to use the rest of emudeck features.
It has gotten so much better in the last few weeks. Nearly 30fps stable, far fewer crashes. Very enjoyable!
Lol even the switch can do better than that
Doesn’t the switch dynamically downscale the resolution though? I thought that was how they kept it at 30 on the switch.
Been wanting to try it but can’t find a rom. I own the game btw.
Diablo IV on my Gaben Boy.
Guilty.
Same!
Same!
XCOM2 - trying to play anything to make the wait to Starfield bearable!
Edit: adding to this that it’s a HOG on the battery which blows my mind considering its not all that graphically impressive.
It's all the calculations xcom makes to ensure the move you made was the wrong move draining the battery 😁
X-Com spends a lot of cycles recalculating a 99% success rate in order to hand you a miss.
Truer words!
Did you try manually setting the TDP? In Civ VI I set it to 7W (default graphics) and it has helped quite a bit.
I tried bringing frames down to 30 and messed a little with a custom game profile but I think I’ll have to drop graphics to medium or low for any real tangible difference. And that I’m just not willing to do! So it’s a couch outlet game for me at the moment. Fallout 4 uses less juice. Maybe it’s just poorly optimized?
Dave the Diver. It's not only the perfect Steam Deck game, it's contender for indie game of the year. There's just so much content and it's all so good!
I can’t wait to dive into this.
Heh.
It's crazy how fun this game is in short bursts but it's also scarily packed with content. I love the little animation cutscenes that they have for bancho and when fulfilling the customer requests.
Pretty much a Diablo 4 machine at this point 🥸
Same, provided I'm playing at home with wifi haha, otherwise I think Brotato has made a large dent in my Deck time
I just finished Ori and the Blind Forest and it was a lot of fun. Really well done game in my opinion. Similar to Hollow Knight, if you've played that.
If you haven't played Hollow Knight, play Hollow Knight.
Here's hoping you move on to Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It's one of my favorite of all time.
I started a game last night. Looks cool. Nice to see some melee combat.
I think I'll replay Blind Forest on a higher difficulty first. It was pretty easy on Normal.
Dave the Diver
I’ve gotten super hooked on Dave the Diver the last few days! Great game. The first shark is still kicking my butt though.
Dude I was fighting for my dammed life in that part lol
Just beat the giant squid last night! I'm a little unsure what some of the mechanics mean still , but great game!
Been playing a lot of Diablo 4 and sleeping dogs.
Do you have the steps to run diablo 4 on the steam deck? I havent explored non steam games
There are a few ways but here's my preferred method
Desktop mode
Install Lutris
Search for battle.net in Lutris and install
Launch battle.net
Install Diablo 4 through battle.net
There are a few guides around with more detail but it's very straight forward. Also a few guides out there on how to maximize battery life. I get 2.5hrs or so, closer to 3 if I avoid towns.
Yup, same way I installed it.
Great name! Throwback…
Thanks!
I would not recommend Lutris/wine for D4 since it tuns perfectly on Proton Experimental, at that point you are just introducing another layer of potential compatibility issues that are completely unnecessary. I tried using Lutris on launch day and it was a total headache with various components being incompatible.
Just install the launcher in desktop mode and add it as a steam game, then set compatibility mode to Proton Experimental. Done.
I followed this guy’s YouTube tutorial to get D4 working on the steam deck. Super clear instructions and worked like a charm. I did end up tweaking the settings a bit and am not playing at 60 fps (opted for 45), but it runs great. Here’s the link for the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/zxet_LLQIwE
No Man's Sky, lots of No Man's Sky this last month. Monster Hunter World is installed and ready to go... but I just need to finish something in No Man's Sky first.
For a smaller Indie title, I was playing Aground before the latest NMS community expedition.
My daughter has been borrowing it to play The Lake, and my son and I have been playing Nickelodeon Brawl and Nickelodeon Carts on it.
I was addicted to no man's sky for a while, plays great on the deck. I took a black hole somewhere and then had an existential crisis wondering what I was doing it there in the universe and left myself stranded lost somewhere I didn't know
How is Aground ? Just bought it in a bundle.
Been using Yuzu to emulate Tears of The Kingdom. Works so well for the handheld platform.
(For legal reasons this is definitely not actually true please don't sue me daddy Nintendo)
How'd you get it running smoothly? Mods? Even in Yuzu EA, the base TOTK game is slow.
It took a lot of tinkering, ngl. So far, I've gotten it to run at a pretty consistent 30fps with a bit of slowdown when going into areas for the first time due to shader compilation. Of course, big towns and such shows a bit of a slowdown as well, but nothing game breaking. I'm about a third or more through the main story all played on the Deck. Here's a list of things I've done to get it playable:
Installed Yuzu via EmuDeck. For whatever reason, I couldn't even launch the game using the standard flatpak version/package version.
Dynamic 30fps Patch. I tried the 60fps version, but since the game never gets much above 30, I went with the 30fps version since it was noticeably smoother.
Ran CryoUtilities and let it do its optimizations (increasing vram actually makes the game run worse due to there being less ram. This game/emulator is very memory hungry it seems so skip that one.)
I use the PowerTools plugin from Decky to set the hardware scheduler to performance mode. I've also played around with increasing minimum CPU clock speeds, but I can't seem to make a difference with those. There were some rumors about disabling the "Odd Number" core option that helped performance, but I didn't notice a difference with the current EA build of Yuzu. that turned out to be true.
Using the normal Power Options, force the GPU clock speed to max (1600).
Running EA Yuzu in Vulkan mode
I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I sourced the game from a specific girl who claims to be fit and likes to repackage things.
A quick note : I'm also running Release 1.0 since whenever I try to upgrade to 1.1, I get an infinite black loading screen. I think this has to do with where I got the 1.0 release from, but I'm not sure. Supposedly, 1.1 has some bug fixes and performance fixes as well, but I'm too far into the game to worry about getting it working at this point.
All of this is purely hypothetical, though, obviously.
Wow thank you for the detailed response!
you mean on my brotatoDeck? surely people don't do anything other than use for brotato. I mean, that is what it's for. right? ... right?!?!
It used to be my BrotatoDeck until Steam overwrote my savegame while syncing. Haven't been able to bring myself to play it again since then.
I finally got D5 on everyone a few weeks ago, then more new characters so the addiction resumes
I recently finished psychonauts 2 on the steamdeck connected to the dock. It ran almost perfectly. Some areas that had a lot of activity would drop a bit, but overall it was an amazing experience.
I thought they did a great job after have such a long hiatus between the original Psychonauts.
Sooo much Binding of Isaac, maybe too much. If you like difficult, rng-based games it's one of the best.
Still the greatest Roguelike IMO, the variety and unlockables are through the roof, and while RNG is a big part anything can still be overcome with enough raw skill
Mostly Spyro Reignited here, reliving the moments of my childhood in higher definition. Along with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Yesss, I played New Super Lucky's Tale after seeing my kid play it on the Switch. It resparked some nostalgia for classic 3D platforming so I ended up getting Spyro, Crash and Kao the Kangaroo. Been having a blast.
YEAH! that and crash bandicoot work really nicely on the steam deck
Definitely! Crash is next on my to-Deck list.
Dave the Diver...
Absolutely! Have been really wanting something to follow up my Dredge addiction this past winter, and this seems perfect. Love how there's constantly new stuff happening. The core gameplay loop is perfectly sound as well.
I'm seriously addicted to Dave The Diver at the moment.
I am enjoying my first Horizon Zero Dawn run. I am amazed by the graphics that I am able to squeeze out of the steam deck
Risk of Rain 2
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Brotato
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Broforce
Cats Organized Neatly
Ever Seen a Cat 2
Call of Juarez
Postal 2
...and of course, Hades
Death Stranding. Still keeping on keeping on!
I wanna 100% this game again just for the sake of playing it portably. Brilliant game.
Great game, this was my covid comfort. Played it on Ps4 and I miss my bibi and the thumbs up
I‘ve been playing around alot but I enjoy horror and survival horror a lot more on deck than on pc/console
Witcher 3 almost exclusively for a few months now.
Just finished Doom 2016. Really fun and also to train gyro aiming. Started Wolfenstein new order, but I'm kinda not hooked, probably because gameplay is slower then Doom. Got Dandy Ace in the sale, may just play that for a while.
Also finished Cult of the lamb and tomb raider earlier.
Itching to get diablo 4, but then I won't play anything else and I still have many games I want to try/finish.
Going to move onto doom 2016 once I've finished bully
One thing I'm worried about is how exhausting the game can be.. I've played a mission or two and after the mission I'm left drained with hesitation of starting the next mission lol.. such an intense game
Anyway, hope to have some fun with it once I get onto it
Gyro aiming is awesome once you get used to it. I don't always keep it on, but I definitely play better when it is on.
My aging hands can't support the weight of the deck with gyro aiming on during long periods of play. Or if they can, I'll still feel it later.
I think gyro aiming with a gamepad is perfect though. Doom on the Switch was very fun because of that.
Surprisingly enough, need for speed underground 2
Me too! I'm flip-flopping between Underground 2 and Most Wanted 2005.
Great games, running great in PCSX2.
Most wanted 2005 was amazing. Racing games that somehow felt like RPGs, the golden age of the franchise.
Which version?
I tried to get xemu to work but just couldn't. The PS2 version started right up with emudeck and pcsx2
Why not the pc version? Iirc proton was running it well.
I finished nfsu pc version on deck, it was also running very good.
Diablo 2 Resurrected
Dead Cells
Dragons Dogma
Grim Dawn
Vampire Survivors
How's Grim Dawn with controller?
Great. It has native support, only the menus and inventory are a little wonky, since you have to navigate the cursor with the sticks but I just mapped the right touchpad as mouse and problem solved.
Wow I've been playing through Grim Dawn for the past couple of days on my Deck dealing with the wonky UI controls, and I having right track pad just be the mouse would solve 99% of my issues. I can't believe I didn't just rebind it. I even went through a couple of community profiles lol
Tomb Raider because 3,60 € was a no-brainer. Ended up buying the whole series in sale...
Katamari Damacy ReRoll
How does it compare to the og katamari?
I installed Windows to an SD card and now my partner and I play Call of Duty together from bed in the weekend mornings.
I was just thinking of trying this!! Is it the newest CoD? How's performance?
We've been playing DMZ on the newest one, yeah. Graphics settings are on the preset second from lowest and it plays fine.
Been playing a lot of Solasta lately. Also, picked up Inscryption on the Steam sale today, and already hooked.
It took a little experimentation to get video settings right, but Solasta is great on the Deck.
Diablo 4. I was not planning on buying it, but since it works so well on StemDeck I caved in, and I'm having a blast. I love playing it while in bed.
Been playing through Dredge this weekend, it's an awesome game for Deck. Very pick up and play
Great game though was surprisingly short. Can't wait for the update/DLC with more content.
I don't think it's that short if you factor in the completion aspect. Getting both endings took me 7 hours, and completing will probably be another 12 if I choose to go that route.
For $25 I don't think it's that bad, but I'm pretty biased in preference of quality to quantity.
Took me 12 hours for the price of a couple of beers, from that perspective, sure enough bang for your buck.
However I got both endings at basically the same time so that was a bit of a bummer.
Sure getting everything to 100% would take a bit more but it's just sort of a grind (though I guess that's where the fishing aspect of it comes into play).
I did love the atmosphere and the overall theme, I guess I was just surprised that it sets you up for this dark mysterious world and then it sort of fizzles.
For the price point compare with either Loathing game (actually I think those were 25$ together so maybe compare with both). There is more content there overall.
That being said, I stand by my initial statement that Dredge is a great game and do recommend to anybody that might be interested in horror fishing to get it.
I think that's fair. Though I do think fizzling out is kind of in the spirit of a proper Lovecraft horror.
American Truck Simulator. And I can't stop. I don't know why it's so enjoyable. I have a huge backlog of games to play, but instead I've got a load of Amonium Nitrate to haul to Barstow, CA.
All the buzz around Diablo 4 got me thinking about my favorite aRPG, Titan Quest, which led me to Grim Dawn, which I have been having a great time playing through for the first time on my Deck.
I have not been able to stop playing D4, but Grim Dawn plays absolutely perfectly on the Deck, one of the games I would recommend the most.
I've been having a blast with it on the deck! Some navigation issues in the UI is really the only complaint I had, and that was easy enough to fix with remapping.
Excellent game and I can't believe I haven't played it until now.
Art of rally
I've returned to the 2000's with Mass Effect, New Vegas, Morrowind and Stalker.
How is Morrowind on a controller given its age and UI design in general? I myself have only played with keyboard and mouse.
Honestly I'm quite surprised many people sleep on the trackpads, combined with the plethora of binding options it's closer to a mouse and keyboard than you'd think.
I used the steam controller for many years for FPS games, it does an excellent job.
Combine it with a gyro and I've seen people use it viably on competitive shooters.
Morrowind never gets old. I always find something new.
No Man's Sky has really suckered me in. I'm also playing through Yakuza like a Dragon, but NMS is spending a lot more time open atm.
I always wanted to like NMS, I just can't get into it, I never manage to progress far.
Honestly I usually get turned off survival crafting games pretty hard, but NMS is itching a major space explorer itch for me.
The pause feature really helps, no more waiting for 30 seconds to load into the last system, just pick it up and play.
I cannot recommend portal reloaded enough. It's just gotten a co op mode.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Death Stranding
Diablo 2: Resurrected
Stardew Valley
No Mans Sky
So far any of those games perform really well. Especially RDR2 is nice to play. The visuals of that game are stunning, but then again Death Stranding is nothing to sneeze at, too
Diablo 4
Star Realms
Dead Cells
Noita (700 hours on this bad boy thanks to COVID)
GTA V
Skull the Hero Slayer
Vampire Survivors just keeps drawing me back
That and Hades with a side of Nuclear Throne
Diablo 2. Haven't played any Diablo games until a few days ago, but can't put the damn game damn now.
I've played every game in the series for countless hours and continuously throughout my life come back to 2. Playing 4 right now, but I keep finding myself wanting to quit and play 2. Also the remaster is incredibly well done.
It's really fun, disappointed that I waited this long to play them.
Is there a guide to get Diablo 2 working on the deck?
You can install the blizzard launcher from the desktop in the deck, add it as a non steam game then do the same thing for Diablo 2 once blizzard downloads it. I forget the actual steps, but I followed a guide online.
I'd think following a guide for Diablo 4 to get bnet installed and then install D2 resurrected should work.
I've played through the newer tomb raider games and they're great, same with horizon zero dawn and Control. Being able to turn on gyro aiming while a arrow is notched or your gun is raised makes those kinds of games really fun.
I was playing Control as well, but I haven't tried gyro aiming. I should figure it out.
It's so worth it, gyro aiming makes life so much better. Any game where you aim using the left trigger is perfect for it. You just set your gyro trigger to activate on trigger pull. Tuning it can be a bit tricky, and I found for Control specifically it didn't like mouse input from the gyro, I had to trial and error the aiming. Tomb raider had gyro aiming by default.
Hmm, I tried setting Gyro to mouse in the Steam Deck controller settings for Control, and wasn't too impressed. Might have done it wrong, may just take some time. It sounds like games that support gyro aiming in the in-game settings are better?
It definitely takes some tinkering to get it right. I'll go check what my settings are tomorrow morning when I wake up.
Warframe, some emulated games.
Diablo 4: plays great on Deck and is the perfect way to kill time during lunch break.
DROP - System Breach: surprisingly tense hacking puzzle/pattern recognition game. Sleeper hit for me.
Humanity: Lemmings meets Robo Rally, but designed by the Rez/Tetris Effect people.
Mostly Diablo 4. Game plays great on it.
Also been busy with cult of the lamb and a bit of Cuphead.
Playing a ton of Diablo IV - runs great, but I’m still on a quest to find the most optimal (for me) settings. And I just picked up Horizon Chase, Dredge, and Dave the Diver. I’ve played a few races in Horizon Chase and am debating between starting one of the other two. But between ToTK on my Switch and D4, it’s hard to make the time for everything I want to enjoy!
Diablo IV
No Man's Sky
Gta V
Time Loader (got it cheap from Fanatical.com)
Door Kickers - Action Squad
Spider-man remastered
Working on Octopath Traveler 2 and Persona 5 Royal right now.
Spark the Electric Jester 2/3 are sick af!
Protodroid Delta is super fun!
Hotshot racing is a blast from the past despite requiring being online to even start for no reason.
Battlebit Remastered, but I do have a work pc incase they introduce the new anti-cheat to protect servers from DDOS.
I'm also thinking of getting into Ridge Racer for the first time, but MAN the car turning is WEIRD. Makes me want to start NFS Underground.
Doom eternal, I am seriously addicted
This was my first steam deck game I tried. It felt amazing.
Fallout 4. Its the first game I thought of when the Deck was announced and hoped it would be playable. I haven't been disappointed after 8 hrs on my Deck.
I bought it a week ago and had buggy dialogue, soft locks, etc. in the house and at the gate to the vault. It was insanely broken. A fresh reinstall did nothing. Ended up refunding and buying Fallout 3, which has been fun so far. No clue why 4 was just busted for me.
Diablo and Dave the Diver!
Too much farming simulator
Persona 5 Royal
Chained Echoes
Been thinking about picking this up. How are you finding it?
Been playing Death Stranding with Deck docked to TV and with a PS4 controller. Works like a charm.
How is your performance? Are you in desktop outputting to 1080p or are you just in game mode outputting 800p to the TV? I have death stranding on PS5 but I've shelved it to get back to my PC collection and I'm looking to purchase death stranding ce during the summer sale.
I'm not streaming from Desktop. Steam Deck supports resolution up to 4K when docked so you won't be playing at 800p too. Not sure if you already know the following but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding this topic so I'll share my experience here in the hope that it'd help clear things up for someone. Below is the tinkering process that works for me:
Go to Steam - Settings - Display - External Display. If you have a 4K TV and want the game to run in 4K, leave Automatically Set Resolution on (because there's no option to pick 4K in custom resolution for reasons unknown to me). If you want a lower resolution, turn off Automatically Set Resolution and pick the res you want.
Go to Library, click on the game then go to Settings - Properties - Game Resolution and set it to Native.
Start the game, set res in the game to the a res lower than what you set in system display. For example if you have a 4K TV and set res to auto in system display, you'd want to set it as 2560x1440 in game. If you set 1920x1080 in system display, set it to 720 in game. Next step will explain why.
Open your quick access menu (the physical 3 dots button under the right controller pad), scroll down to battery icon and go to Scaling Filter and slide it to FSR if it's not already in this mode. What this does is that it will scale your in game res to match your system res with very little impact on your game performance.
You'll get about 20fps at 4K, and around 30fps at QHD(2560x1440). Personally I left it at QHD and it has mostly been running very smoothly except for the occasional crashes... Just make sure you save your game regularly.
Keep on keeping on!
Thank you for the reply. I'll have to give the fsr setting a try sometime. I usually am either away from home and play in game mode native or I'm at my desk with a hub in desktop mode outputting to native 1080p which incurs a performance hit.
Cult of the Lamb is an amazing roguelike / messed up animal crossing mashup
OG FFVII
Same!
I just finished playing through New Threat 2.0 on my deck. I can't believe the quality of that mod.
I'm on an Ally, but similar stuff.
Planet of Lana - It's Limbo but less depressing.
Tinykin - A platformer with a dash of Pikmin. Like, a very small dash. Some reviews way overplay the Pikmin aspect. It's more of a collectathon platformer, and the Tinykin are more or less just abilities you need to collect in every level. There's no strategy and you're not at risk of losing them unnecessarily. There's enough to collect everything in every level. I loved the game, but it's not Pikmin.
Pokemon Luminescent Platinum - It's a BDSP (specifically BD) mod that makes the games Platinum with some additional QoL stuff like a built in level cap so you don't get overpowered, additional moves and Pokemon, and just a ton of stuff. It's very good.
Just finished South Park Stick of Truth, now moving on to Fracture but Whole. They play really well on the deck and had them in my backlog.
Also just picked up Dave the Diver, so looking forward to give that a spin.
Tape to Tape hockey has getting my most play time. Perfect deck game.
Burnout paradise
Hades. Like 80 hours of Hades
Skyrim (two-handed Orc barbarian/bandit that despises magic, so goes out of his way to not use anything enchanted and kill magic users) and Fallout 3 for the first time to hold off my Starfield hype (on Series X)
Also bought a ton of rogue-likes this weekend from the sale - Hades, Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire, and Dead Cells. Never played Hades until now and it's amazing, of course. The rest I've played a bit, but not a ton for each of them, so it's fun getting into them all. I think these style games are some of the best for the Deck.
Have you used the trackpads for any buttons on skyrim, I have but I'm not sure I've done it very well
I haven't, just normal Xbox controls + the back buttons.
What do you have the back buttons mapped to
Top left A
Bottom left Sneak
Top right X
Bottom right Sprint
I'm just getting into RainWorld after completing Celeste.
How is that going for you?
Hearing a lot of mixed signals about the difficulty
I snagged Marvel Midnight Suns two days ago and I am HOOKED. I love card builder roguelites and this game added another layer of interactivity with 3D positioning and environmental attacks.
I also adore the Persona style relationship sim going on. A big part of why I love the MCU is the personality and relationships between characters, so having the Persona r/ship sim going on is a perfect addition to the game!
Recently played Axiom Verge 1&2 and currently playing Hollow Knight.
I’ve been playing Zelda ToTK, and can’t get enough. I absolutely love how far emulation has come.
Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children.
The story is nonsense, the art style is meh, the translation is challenging.
But goddamn the combat and build variety/experimentation is through the roof.
All I've been wanting to play lately are trpgs. And after having finished most of the major players in the genre (Shadowrun Trilogy, X-Coms, Wasteland 3, Pillars, Mechanics, Midnight Suns, Daemonhunters, Rome, etc.) I've been really starved for passable games.
I feel like Troubleshooter can stand with the best of them. I'm like 50 hours in and don't feel like I've even scratched the surface.
Can't wait til Showgunners drops in price a bit and Broken Roads / Lamplighter's League comes out.
Tons of Days Gone. So sick of open world games but this has consumed me
I've been playing resident evil revelations 2. It's actually really good on the deck
Just picked up Sekiro in the summer sale. Hope my LB survives 😂
Roots of Pacha (caveman style Stardew), Disgaea 5 and Octopath 2
Sorry for double post, can’t figure out how to delete
Circuit Superstars and Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Circuit Superstars and Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Diablo 4. I have actually played from 1-62 as a druid so far on Steam Deck and it's been a fantastic way to experience the game.
Evoland, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Dragonball Kakarot, and Resident Evil Villiage. Working on my backlog, and these are all great.
Friend recommended Halls of Torment because he knew I liked Vampire Survivors. Quite enjoying it so far, I think it improves VS in some ways and gives it a Diablo 1 aesthetic.
I love Halls of Torment. It's been my go-to the past couple of weeks.
If you like those I can also recommend:
Brotato
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Diablo 4! I’m really pleased with how well it runs.
Diablo 4 looks interesting, but $70 and microtransactions just rubs me the wrong way.
I’m really into it so the outlay is worth it for me, already clocked hundreds of hours since launch.
The cosmetics are egregiously expensive, but they’re only cosmetic so they are quite easy for me to completely ignore.
Fwiw, I didn't even know there are micro transactions, and I'm about 3/4 through the story line and having a great time
GTA 5, world of tanks, simrail, NFS underground 2 and have dabbled with assetto corsa running on proton (little bit wack and doesnt run content manager yet)
The Witcher 3, Cult of the Lamb, and MMBN Legacy Collection.
Just finished horizon zero dawn, now playing Metroid prime remastered
Just some Mk8 deluxe & Bloons TD6.
Need to finish Jedi Fallen Order & Tears of the Kingdom, but mastering inside drift is too good to pass up lol
Dying light. I bought it on sale years ago and couldn't really get into it. I think the combat just takes a while to get into. Plus, I don't think it's really meant for keyboard and mouse.
I love it on the deck. It runs great and looks amazing for an 8 yr old game.
Docked: Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Perfect for laying in bed, has a near auto-battle combat system between cutscenes that i can enjoy comfortably.
Undocked: Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I'm trying to get all the achievements via RetroAchievements and am at the point where it's just grinding so it works elegantly for those random chances I find to put some playtime in. I played through the story, which was great btw, mostly docked.
Just finished Jedi Fallen Order and now I'm again stuck to Hades and Brotato.
I've lend it to my girlfriend for an evening and she tried some "Weeb" games especially Atelier Ryza and ordered herself a Deck now to since it's summer sale :)
How does Fallen Order run on the Deck? It shows as not supported.
Worked great for me. I've set the screen resolution to 800x500 in the steam game settings to force FSR. I've had some trouble at first because i left half rate shading on.
Spirit Hunter NG, mainly. It's a Visual Novel. It's not Deck verified but it runs flawlessly.
6 hours in. The story is so far interesting.
Every now and then I fire up Megaman Legacy Collection. Finished MM1 and now I'm in the robots re-fights.
On weekends I play Street Fighter 6
Recently finished another play through of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Started Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but went back to playing some older titles starting with Legend.
How does Legend play on the Deck? I've played the whole of the new trilogy and up to 3 of the old ones (all of them before I got the Deck). And I wanna get into that "middle trilogy" too, the Deck sounds like a nice fit for those games.
Also, the main menu doesn’t work with controller inputs. I just mapped the Enter and Esc keys to back buttons, and then use the right trackpad as the mouse.
Gamepad controls work in game.
Thanks for the heads up!
Plays flawlessly on about 3w of power (so your battery will last a good while).
I’m about half way through now. When you configure it, turn off the “Next Gen Graphics” or you’ll get a fatal error next time you try to load your save.
Tunic
Brotato
Anno Mutationem
I'm loving bringing party games with me, been introducing a lot of folks to Stick Fight, Jackbox, Death Road to Canada, Broforce, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Rocket League through heroic games launcher
Cassette beasts, daemon x machina, remnant from the ashes, caves of QUD, and various yuzu roms to see how they run (shockingly well).
FFVII & Voidigo
Non-stop Diablols for me or StS if I can’t guarantee an hour or can’t get online. Diablo IV runs perfectly.
What build and level? I'm a blood surge necro at level 51
Level 68 HOTA (hammer of the ancients) Barbarian. Looking forward to season one?
I'm thinking of trying another build for the season, how is the HOTA barbarian? I'm enjoying rolling the blood out of every grub on the screen with my necromancer
The HOTA Barb has felt consistently powerful at every level. It’s particularly vulnerable against ranged enemies but in a crowded room it’s just unstoppable. Not a lot of finesse though. icyVeins has a good guide for level 1-50 and then maxroll.gg was good for tier 3. I’m undecided what to do for S1, definitely want to try something new though.
PS2 God of War 1&2 lately. Also some Cult of the Lamb and Don't Starve Together.
Summer Sale! Just picked up Castle Crashers, Sable, Grounded and Tunic... Oh, and the freebie demo of En Garde!
Tears of the Kingdom and Brotato.
For me it's been XCOM 2, and now Skyrim. As well as Elden Ring a bit.
D4. It runs so smooth on it.
I picked up Library of Ruina for the summer sale. My God what have I gotten myself into?
Yakuza 6. It can't reach 60 FPS, but if you cap it to 30 it's pretty stable and only needs like 15W, despite looking pretty nice.
I'd want to play System Shock on the Deck, but the devs are too dumb to figure out how cloud saving works, so alas.
Diablo 4 and Project Zomboid. Playing these games with a controller is an amazing experience. Took me a while to get used to with Zomboid tho.
Just finished Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood and I’m playing through Revelations for the first time
I've been playing a lot of RedOut2 and Before We leave.
Recently I've been cruising though Sludge Life
Mostly easy going and lighthearted games: Omno, Lil Gator Game, FAR: Lone Sails, Alba: a wildlife adventure, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Art of Rally. Next: Planet of Lana.
Sun Haven has been a lot of fun, controls can get a little weird though.
Mars First Logistics
Half life 2
Stardew valley
64 roms
Cassette beasts was a surprisingly fantastic pokemon clone. I'd take it over any pokemon game tbh.
Aside from that, my mainstays are:
Dead Cells
Hades
Emulation
The last game I've played on the deck is The Lake. Tried some Apico too, but I don't understand the goal in that game.
Played through most of the System Shock remake, currently playing through Deus Ex (the original).
Not sure if this is heresy here or not, but I just bought an ASUS ROG Ally. It’ll be here Wednesday and if you guys wanna recommend me some games, do!
Haha, well maybe a bit heretical considering this declares itself to be the successor to steamdeck_linux and not even just steamdeck. Guess I wouldn't worry about it too much though.
I finally got back to Tunic after a few months' break. Ended up finding a page and an item I had missed, and then it was smooth sailing to the next (second?) boss, which I found to be a super fun fight.
How does it run on Deck? I tried it briefly on Xbox thanks to Gamepass. The game looks lovely, the first hour or so was fun. It feels like a perfect deck game, but only if the performance is stable.
I've limited it to 45Hz IIRC, runs like a charm.
High on Life and Arkham Asylum. Also CS:Go but that's an everlasting game.
I tried csgo but found I was horrible on the deck, always been a mouse and keyboard gamer for me
Completed:
Broforce: fun but gets repetitive.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps: great.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe: a worthy successor.
Currently playing:
Celeste
Baba is you
Sonic all stars racing
How do you handle multiple games at once? I'm also trying to play most of my worthwhile games to at least finish the main storyline/quests.
I feel like I would forget about a game as soon as I start another game. then I have to restart the save because I forgot all the controls
I focus on one game at a time but it sometimes gets a little mind numbing playing the same game for nearly 100hours.. stardew valley I intended to finish everything possible but I got tired and moved on after about 80 hours. (I've completed what's considered the main story but was going to try complete everything after)
Currently finished
Stardew valley
Playing
Bully
Will play next (probably in this order)
Doom (2016)
the Witcher 3
shadow of mordor
How do you handle multiple games at once? I'm also trying to play most of my worthwhile games to at least finish the main storyline/quests.
I try to games that don't have overlapping mechanics: if I'm in the mood for a puzzle, I play Baba is You. If I want something more casual, I play Sonic Racing.
I feel like I would forget about a game as soon as I start another game. then I have to restart the save because I forgot all the controls
Sometimes I do forget games, but I don't mind if that happens. Some games just don't stick. I try to buy games only when on discount, so I don't feel bad if I stop playing it.
I usually complete games, but never to 100%. What attracts me to a game is not usually what's involved in getting to 100% (e.g. I like the Arkham series just for gliding and stealth, so I don't bother with the Riddler collectibles)
Tears of the kingdom! emulation has been making strides recently
Is there a tutorial you can recommend? Not long after it came out I managed to get it running, but only in desktop mode, and input wasn't working at all.
you will need to add Yuzu as a non steam game in desktop mode then you can find it in game mode on that tab. before launching any games at least for me I have to use the touchscreen to launch them at first.
As for input, check the controller settings then go to controller layouts and the community tab, some people have made layouts for it. you might have to experiment with different ones a bit till you find one you like though.
You could try steam rom manager. It allows you to add your roms and/or emulators to your steam list from one app. It comes with emudeck but I think you can get it separately if you don't want to use the rest of emudeck features.
It has gotten so much better in the last few weeks. Nearly 30fps stable, far fewer crashes. Very enjoyable!
Lol even the switch can do better than that
Doesn’t the switch dynamically downscale the resolution though? I thought that was how they kept it at 30 on the switch.
Been wanting to try it but can’t find a rom. I own the game btw.
Diablo IV on my Gaben Boy.
Guilty.
Same!
Same!
XCOM2 - trying to play anything to make the wait to Starfield bearable!
Edit: adding to this that it’s a HOG on the battery which blows my mind considering its not all that graphically impressive.
It's all the calculations xcom makes to ensure the move you made was the wrong move draining the battery 😁
X-Com spends a lot of cycles recalculating a 99% success rate in order to hand you a miss.
Truer words!
Did you try manually setting the TDP? In Civ VI I set it to 7W (default graphics) and it has helped quite a bit.
I tried bringing frames down to 30 and messed a little with a custom game profile but I think I’ll have to drop graphics to medium or low for any real tangible difference. And that I’m just not willing to do! So it’s a couch outlet game for me at the moment. Fallout 4 uses less juice. Maybe it’s just poorly optimized?
Dave the Diver. It's not only the perfect Steam Deck game, it's contender for indie game of the year. There's just so much content and it's all so good!
I can’t wait to dive into this.
Heh.
It's crazy how fun this game is in short bursts but it's also scarily packed with content. I love the little animation cutscenes that they have for bancho and when fulfilling the customer requests.
Pretty much a Diablo 4 machine at this point 🥸
Same, provided I'm playing at home with wifi haha, otherwise I think Brotato has made a large dent in my Deck time
I just finished Ori and the Blind Forest and it was a lot of fun. Really well done game in my opinion. Similar to Hollow Knight, if you've played that.
If you haven't played Hollow Knight, play Hollow Knight.
Here's hoping you move on to Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It's one of my favorite of all time.
I started a game last night. Looks cool. Nice to see some melee combat.
I think I'll replay Blind Forest on a higher difficulty first. It was pretty easy on Normal.
Dave the Diver
I’ve gotten super hooked on Dave the Diver the last few days! Great game. The first shark is still kicking my butt though.
Dude I was fighting for my dammed life in that part lol
Just beat the giant squid last night! I'm a little unsure what some of the mechanics mean still , but great game!
Been playing a lot of Diablo 4 and sleeping dogs.
Do you have the steps to run diablo 4 on the steam deck? I havent explored non steam games
There are a few ways but here's my preferred method
There are a few guides around with more detail but it's very straight forward. Also a few guides out there on how to maximize battery life. I get 2.5hrs or so, closer to 3 if I avoid towns.
Yup, same way I installed it.
Great name! Throwback…
Thanks!
I would not recommend Lutris/wine for D4 since it tuns perfectly on Proton Experimental, at that point you are just introducing another layer of potential compatibility issues that are completely unnecessary. I tried using Lutris on launch day and it was a total headache with various components being incompatible.
Just install the launcher in desktop mode and add it as a steam game, then set compatibility mode to Proton Experimental. Done.
I followed this guy’s YouTube tutorial to get D4 working on the steam deck. Super clear instructions and worked like a charm. I did end up tweaking the settings a bit and am not playing at 60 fps (opted for 45), but it runs great. Here’s the link for the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/zxet_LLQIwE
No Man's Sky, lots of No Man's Sky this last month. Monster Hunter World is installed and ready to go... but I just need to finish something in No Man's Sky first.
For a smaller Indie title, I was playing Aground before the latest NMS community expedition.
My daughter has been borrowing it to play The Lake, and my son and I have been playing Nickelodeon Brawl and Nickelodeon Carts on it.
I was addicted to no man's sky for a while, plays great on the deck. I took a black hole somewhere and then had an existential crisis wondering what I was doing it there in the universe and left myself stranded lost somewhere I didn't know
How is Aground ? Just bought it in a bundle.
Been using Yuzu to emulate Tears of The Kingdom. Works so well for the handheld platform.
(For legal reasons this is definitely not actually true please don't sue me daddy Nintendo)
How'd you get it running smoothly? Mods? Even in Yuzu EA, the base TOTK game is slow.
It took a lot of tinkering, ngl. So far, I've gotten it to run at a pretty consistent 30fps with a bit of slowdown when going into areas for the first time due to shader compilation. Of course, big towns and such shows a bit of a slowdown as well, but nothing game breaking. I'm about a third or more through the main story all played on the Deck. Here's a list of things I've done to get it playable:
but I didn't notice a difference with the current EA build of Yuzu.that turned out to be true.A quick note : I'm also running Release 1.0 since whenever I try to upgrade to 1.1, I get an infinite black loading screen. I think this has to do with where I got the 1.0 release from, but I'm not sure. Supposedly, 1.1 has some bug fixes and performance fixes as well, but I'm too far into the game to worry about getting it working at this point.
All of this is purely hypothetical, though, obviously.
Wow thank you for the detailed response!
you mean on my brotatoDeck? surely people don't do anything other than use for brotato. I mean, that is what it's for. right? ... right?!?!
It used to be my BrotatoDeck until Steam overwrote my savegame while syncing. Haven't been able to bring myself to play it again since then.
I finally got D5 on everyone a few weeks ago, then more new characters so the addiction resumes
I recently finished psychonauts 2 on the steamdeck connected to the dock. It ran almost perfectly. Some areas that had a lot of activity would drop a bit, but overall it was an amazing experience.
I thought they did a great job after have such a long hiatus between the original Psychonauts.
Sooo much Binding of Isaac, maybe too much. If you like difficult, rng-based games it's one of the best.
Still the greatest Roguelike IMO, the variety and unlockables are through the roof, and while RNG is a big part anything can still be overcome with enough raw skill
Mostly Spyro Reignited here, reliving the moments of my childhood in higher definition. Along with Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered.
Yesss, I played New Super Lucky's Tale after seeing my kid play it on the Switch. It resparked some nostalgia for classic 3D platforming so I ended up getting Spyro, Crash and Kao the Kangaroo. Been having a blast.
YEAH! that and crash bandicoot work really nicely on the steam deck
Definitely! Crash is next on my to-Deck list.
Dave the Diver...
Absolutely! Have been really wanting something to follow up my Dredge addiction this past winter, and this seems perfect. Love how there's constantly new stuff happening. The core gameplay loop is perfectly sound as well.
I'm seriously addicted to Dave The Diver at the moment.
I am enjoying my first Horizon Zero Dawn run. I am amazed by the graphics that I am able to squeeze out of the steam deck
Death Stranding. Still keeping on keeping on!
I wanna 100% this game again just for the sake of playing it portably. Brilliant game.
Great game, this was my covid comfort. Played it on Ps4 and I miss my bibi and the thumbs up
I‘ve been playing around alot but I enjoy horror and survival horror a lot more on deck than on pc/console
Witcher 3 almost exclusively for a few months now.
Just finished Doom 2016. Really fun and also to train gyro aiming. Started Wolfenstein new order, but I'm kinda not hooked, probably because gameplay is slower then Doom. Got Dandy Ace in the sale, may just play that for a while.
Also finished Cult of the lamb and tomb raider earlier.
Itching to get diablo 4, but then I won't play anything else and I still have many games I want to try/finish.
Going to move onto doom 2016 once I've finished bully
One thing I'm worried about is how exhausting the game can be.. I've played a mission or two and after the mission I'm left drained with hesitation of starting the next mission lol.. such an intense game
Anyway, hope to have some fun with it once I get onto it
Gyro aiming is awesome once you get used to it. I don't always keep it on, but I definitely play better when it is on.
My aging hands can't support the weight of the deck with gyro aiming on during long periods of play. Or if they can, I'll still feel it later.
I think gyro aiming with a gamepad is perfect though. Doom on the Switch was very fun because of that.
Surprisingly enough, need for speed underground 2
Me too! I'm flip-flopping between Underground 2 and Most Wanted 2005.
Great games, running great in PCSX2.
Most wanted 2005 was amazing. Racing games that somehow felt like RPGs, the golden age of the franchise.
Which version?
I tried to get xemu to work but just couldn't. The PS2 version started right up with emudeck and pcsx2
Why not the pc version? Iirc proton was running it well.
I finished nfsu pc version on deck, it was also running very good.
Diablo 2 Resurrected
Dead Cells
Dragons Dogma
Grim Dawn
Vampire Survivors
How's Grim Dawn with controller?
Great. It has native support, only the menus and inventory are a little wonky, since you have to navigate the cursor with the sticks but I just mapped the right touchpad as mouse and problem solved.
Wow I've been playing through Grim Dawn for the past couple of days on my Deck dealing with the wonky UI controls, and I having right track pad just be the mouse would solve 99% of my issues. I can't believe I didn't just rebind it. I even went through a couple of community profiles lol
Tomb Raider because 3,60 € was a no-brainer. Ended up buying the whole series in sale...
Katamari Damacy ReRoll
How does it compare to the og katamari?
I installed Windows to an SD card and now my partner and I play Call of Duty together from bed in the weekend mornings.
I was just thinking of trying this!! Is it the newest CoD? How's performance?
We've been playing DMZ on the newest one, yeah. Graphics settings are on the preset second from lowest and it plays fine.
Been playing a lot of Solasta lately. Also, picked up Inscryption on the Steam sale today, and already hooked.
It took a little experimentation to get video settings right, but Solasta is great on the Deck.
Diablo 4. I was not planning on buying it, but since it works so well on StemDeck I caved in, and I'm having a blast. I love playing it while in bed.
Been playing through Dredge this weekend, it's an awesome game for Deck. Very pick up and play
Great game though was surprisingly short. Can't wait for the update/DLC with more content.
I don't think it's that short if you factor in the completion aspect. Getting both endings took me 7 hours, and completing will probably be another 12 if I choose to go that route.
For $25 I don't think it's that bad, but I'm pretty biased in preference of quality to quantity.
Took me 12 hours for the price of a couple of beers, from that perspective, sure enough bang for your buck.
However I got both endings at basically the same time so that was a bit of a bummer.
Sure getting everything to 100% would take a bit more but it's just sort of a grind (though I guess that's where the fishing aspect of it comes into play).
I did love the atmosphere and the overall theme, I guess I was just surprised that it sets you up for this dark mysterious world and then it sort of fizzles.
For the price point compare with either Loathing game (actually I think those were 25$ together so maybe compare with both). There is more content there overall.
That being said, I stand by my initial statement that Dredge is a great game and do recommend to anybody that might be interested in horror fishing to get it.
I think that's fair. Though I do think fizzling out is kind of in the spirit of a proper Lovecraft horror.
American Truck Simulator. And I can't stop. I don't know why it's so enjoyable. I have a huge backlog of games to play, but instead I've got a load of Amonium Nitrate to haul to Barstow, CA.
All the buzz around Diablo 4 got me thinking about my favorite aRPG, Titan Quest, which led me to Grim Dawn, which I have been having a great time playing through for the first time on my Deck.
I have not been able to stop playing D4, but Grim Dawn plays absolutely perfectly on the Deck, one of the games I would recommend the most.
I've been having a blast with it on the deck! Some navigation issues in the UI is really the only complaint I had, and that was easy enough to fix with remapping.
Excellent game and I can't believe I haven't played it until now.
Art of rally
I've returned to the 2000's with Mass Effect, New Vegas, Morrowind and Stalker.
How is Morrowind on a controller given its age and UI design in general? I myself have only played with keyboard and mouse.
Honestly I'm quite surprised many people sleep on the trackpads, combined with the plethora of binding options it's closer to a mouse and keyboard than you'd think.
I used the steam controller for many years for FPS games, it does an excellent job.
Combine it with a gyro and I've seen people use it viably on competitive shooters.
Morrowind never gets old. I always find something new.
No Man's Sky has really suckered me in. I'm also playing through Yakuza like a Dragon, but NMS is spending a lot more time open atm.
I always wanted to like NMS, I just can't get into it, I never manage to progress far.
Honestly I usually get turned off survival crafting games pretty hard, but NMS is itching a major space explorer itch for me.
The pause feature really helps, no more waiting for 30 seconds to load into the last system, just pick it up and play.
I cannot recommend portal reloaded enough. It's just gotten a co op mode.
So far any of those games perform really well. Especially RDR2 is nice to play. The visuals of that game are stunning, but then again Death Stranding is nothing to sneeze at, too
Diablo 4
Star Realms
Dead Cells
Noita (700 hours on this bad boy thanks to COVID)
GTA V
Skull the Hero Slayer
Vampire Survivors just keeps drawing me back
That and Hades with a side of Nuclear Throne
Diablo 2. Haven't played any Diablo games until a few days ago, but can't put the damn game damn now.
I've played every game in the series for countless hours and continuously throughout my life come back to 2. Playing 4 right now, but I keep finding myself wanting to quit and play 2. Also the remaster is incredibly well done.
It's really fun, disappointed that I waited this long to play them.
Is there a guide to get Diablo 2 working on the deck?
You can install the blizzard launcher from the desktop in the deck, add it as a non steam game then do the same thing for Diablo 2 once blizzard downloads it. I forget the actual steps, but I followed a guide online.
I'd think following a guide for Diablo 4 to get bnet installed and then install D2 resurrected should work.
I've played through the newer tomb raider games and they're great, same with horizon zero dawn and Control. Being able to turn on gyro aiming while a arrow is notched or your gun is raised makes those kinds of games really fun.
I was playing Control as well, but I haven't tried gyro aiming. I should figure it out.
It's so worth it, gyro aiming makes life so much better. Any game where you aim using the left trigger is perfect for it. You just set your gyro trigger to activate on trigger pull. Tuning it can be a bit tricky, and I found for Control specifically it didn't like mouse input from the gyro, I had to trial and error the aiming. Tomb raider had gyro aiming by default.
Hmm, I tried setting Gyro to mouse in the Steam Deck controller settings for Control, and wasn't too impressed. Might have done it wrong, may just take some time. It sounds like games that support gyro aiming in the in-game settings are better?
It definitely takes some tinkering to get it right. I'll go check what my settings are tomorrow morning when I wake up.
Warframe, some emulated games.
Mostly Diablo 4. Game plays great on it.
Also been busy with cult of the lamb and a bit of Cuphead.
Playing a ton of Diablo IV - runs great, but I’m still on a quest to find the most optimal (for me) settings. And I just picked up Horizon Chase, Dredge, and Dave the Diver. I’ve played a few races in Horizon Chase and am debating between starting one of the other two. But between ToTK on my Switch and D4, it’s hard to make the time for everything I want to enjoy!
Spider-man remastered
Working on Octopath Traveler 2 and Persona 5 Royal right now.
Spark the Electric Jester 2/3 are sick af!
Protodroid Delta is super fun!
Hotshot racing is a blast from the past despite requiring being online to even start for no reason.
Battlebit Remastered, but I do have a work pc incase they introduce the new anti-cheat to protect servers from DDOS.
I'm also thinking of getting into Ridge Racer for the first time, but MAN the car turning is WEIRD. Makes me want to start NFS Underground.
Doom eternal, I am seriously addicted
This was my first steam deck game I tried. It felt amazing.
Fallout 4. Its the first game I thought of when the Deck was announced and hoped it would be playable. I haven't been disappointed after 8 hrs on my Deck.
I bought it a week ago and had buggy dialogue, soft locks, etc. in the house and at the gate to the vault. It was insanely broken. A fresh reinstall did nothing. Ended up refunding and buying Fallout 3, which has been fun so far. No clue why 4 was just busted for me.
Diablo and Dave the Diver!
Too much farming simulator
Persona 5 Royal
Chained Echoes
Been thinking about picking this up. How are you finding it?
Been playing Death Stranding with Deck docked to TV and with a PS4 controller. Works like a charm.
How is your performance? Are you in desktop outputting to 1080p or are you just in game mode outputting 800p to the TV? I have death stranding on PS5 but I've shelved it to get back to my PC collection and I'm looking to purchase death stranding ce during the summer sale.
I'm not streaming from Desktop. Steam Deck supports resolution up to 4K when docked so you won't be playing at 800p too. Not sure if you already know the following but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding this topic so I'll share my experience here in the hope that it'd help clear things up for someone. Below is the tinkering process that works for me:
Go to Steam - Settings - Display - External Display. If you have a 4K TV and want the game to run in 4K, leave Automatically Set Resolution on (because there's no option to pick 4K in custom resolution for reasons unknown to me). If you want a lower resolution, turn off Automatically Set Resolution and pick the res you want.
Go to Library, click on the game then go to Settings - Properties - Game Resolution and set it to Native.
Start the game, set res in the game to the a res lower than what you set in system display. For example if you have a 4K TV and set res to auto in system display, you'd want to set it as 2560x1440 in game. If you set 1920x1080 in system display, set it to 720 in game. Next step will explain why.
Open your quick access menu (the physical 3 dots button under the right controller pad), scroll down to battery icon and go to Scaling Filter and slide it to FSR if it's not already in this mode. What this does is that it will scale your in game res to match your system res with very little impact on your game performance.
You'll get about 20fps at 4K, and around 30fps at QHD(2560x1440). Personally I left it at QHD and it has mostly been running very smoothly except for the occasional crashes... Just make sure you save your game regularly.
Keep on keeping on!
Thank you for the reply. I'll have to give the fsr setting a try sometime. I usually am either away from home and play in game mode native or I'm at my desk with a hub in desktop mode outputting to native 1080p which incurs a performance hit.
Cult of the Lamb is an amazing roguelike / messed up animal crossing mashup
OG FFVII
Same!
I just finished playing through New Threat 2.0 on my deck. I can't believe the quality of that mod.
I'm on an Ally, but similar stuff.
Just finished South Park Stick of Truth, now moving on to Fracture but Whole. They play really well on the deck and had them in my backlog.
Also just picked up Dave the Diver, so looking forward to give that a spin.
Tape to Tape hockey has getting my most play time. Perfect deck game.
Burnout paradise
Hades. Like 80 hours of Hades
Skyrim (two-handed Orc barbarian/bandit that despises magic, so goes out of his way to not use anything enchanted and kill magic users) and Fallout 3 for the first time to hold off my Starfield hype (on Series X)
Also bought a ton of rogue-likes this weekend from the sale - Hades, Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire, and Dead Cells. Never played Hades until now and it's amazing, of course. The rest I've played a bit, but not a ton for each of them, so it's fun getting into them all. I think these style games are some of the best for the Deck.
Have you used the trackpads for any buttons on skyrim, I have but I'm not sure I've done it very well
I haven't, just normal Xbox controls + the back buttons.
What do you have the back buttons mapped to
Top left A
Bottom left Sneak
Top right X
Bottom right Sprint
I'm just getting into RainWorld after completing Celeste.
How is that going for you?
Hearing a lot of mixed signals about the difficulty
I snagged Marvel Midnight Suns two days ago and I am HOOKED. I love card builder roguelites and this game added another layer of interactivity with 3D positioning and environmental attacks.
I also adore the Persona style relationship sim going on. A big part of why I love the MCU is the personality and relationships between characters, so having the Persona r/ship sim going on is a perfect addition to the game!
Recently played Axiom Verge 1&2 and currently playing Hollow Knight.
I’ve been playing Zelda ToTK, and can’t get enough. I absolutely love how far emulation has come.
Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children.
The story is nonsense, the art style is meh, the translation is challenging.
But goddamn the combat and build variety/experimentation is through the roof.
All I've been wanting to play lately are trpgs. And after having finished most of the major players in the genre (Shadowrun Trilogy, X-Coms, Wasteland 3, Pillars, Mechanics, Midnight Suns, Daemonhunters, Rome, etc.) I've been really starved for passable games.
I feel like Troubleshooter can stand with the best of them. I'm like 50 hours in and don't feel like I've even scratched the surface.
Can't wait til Showgunners drops in price a bit and Broken Roads / Lamplighter's League comes out.
Tons of Days Gone. So sick of open world games but this has consumed me
I've been playing resident evil revelations 2. It's actually really good on the deck
Just picked up Sekiro in the summer sale. Hope my LB survives 😂
Roots of Pacha (caveman style Stardew), Disgaea 5 and Octopath 2
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Diablo 4. I have actually played from 1-62 as a druid so far on Steam Deck and it's been a fantastic way to experience the game.
Evoland, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Dragonball Kakarot, and Resident Evil Villiage. Working on my backlog, and these are all great.
Friend recommended Halls of Torment because he knew I liked Vampire Survivors. Quite enjoying it so far, I think it improves VS in some ways and gives it a Diablo 1 aesthetic.
I love Halls of Torment. It's been my go-to the past couple of weeks.
If you like those I can also recommend:
Diablo 4! I’m really pleased with how well it runs.
Diablo 4 looks interesting, but $70 and microtransactions just rubs me the wrong way.
I’m really into it so the outlay is worth it for me, already clocked hundreds of hours since launch.
The cosmetics are egregiously expensive, but they’re only cosmetic so they are quite easy for me to completely ignore.
Fwiw, I didn't even know there are micro transactions, and I'm about 3/4 through the story line and having a great time
GTA 5, world of tanks, simrail, NFS underground 2 and have dabbled with assetto corsa running on proton (little bit wack and doesnt run content manager yet)
The Witcher 3, Cult of the Lamb, and MMBN Legacy Collection.
Just finished horizon zero dawn, now playing Metroid prime remastered
Just some Mk8 deluxe & Bloons TD6. Need to finish Jedi Fallen Order & Tears of the Kingdom, but mastering inside drift is too good to pass up lol
Dying light. I bought it on sale years ago and couldn't really get into it. I think the combat just takes a while to get into. Plus, I don't think it's really meant for keyboard and mouse.
I love it on the deck. It runs great and looks amazing for an 8 yr old game.
Docked: Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Perfect for laying in bed, has a near auto-battle combat system between cutscenes that i can enjoy comfortably.
Undocked: Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I'm trying to get all the achievements via RetroAchievements and am at the point where it's just grinding so it works elegantly for those random chances I find to put some playtime in. I played through the story, which was great btw, mostly docked.
Just finished Jedi Fallen Order and now I'm again stuck to Hades and Brotato.
I've lend it to my girlfriend for an evening and she tried some "Weeb" games especially Atelier Ryza and ordered herself a Deck now to since it's summer sale :)
How does Fallen Order run on the Deck? It shows as not supported.
Worked great for me. I've set the screen resolution to 800x500 in the steam game settings to force FSR. I've had some trouble at first because i left half rate shading on.
Spirit Hunter NG, mainly. It's a Visual Novel. It's not Deck verified but it runs flawlessly. 6 hours in. The story is so far interesting.
Every now and then I fire up Megaman Legacy Collection. Finished MM1 and now I'm in the robots re-fights.
On weekends I play Street Fighter 6
Recently finished another play through of Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Started Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but went back to playing some older titles starting with Legend.
How does Legend play on the Deck? I've played the whole of the new trilogy and up to 3 of the old ones (all of them before I got the Deck). And I wanna get into that "middle trilogy" too, the Deck sounds like a nice fit for those games.
Also, the main menu doesn’t work with controller inputs. I just mapped the Enter and Esc keys to back buttons, and then use the right trackpad as the mouse.
Gamepad controls work in game.
Thanks for the heads up!
Plays flawlessly on about 3w of power (so your battery will last a good while).
I’m about half way through now. When you configure it, turn off the “Next Gen Graphics” or you’ll get a fatal error next time you try to load your save.
Tunic
Brotato
Anno Mutationem
I'm loving bringing party games with me, been introducing a lot of folks to Stick Fight, Jackbox, Death Road to Canada, Broforce, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Rocket League through heroic games launcher
Cassette beasts, daemon x machina, remnant from the ashes, caves of QUD, and various yuzu roms to see how they run (shockingly well).
FFVII & Voidigo
Non-stop Diablols for me or StS if I can’t guarantee an hour or can’t get online. Diablo IV runs perfectly.
What build and level? I'm a blood surge necro at level 51
Level 68 HOTA (hammer of the ancients) Barbarian. Looking forward to season one?
I'm thinking of trying another build for the season, how is the HOTA barbarian? I'm enjoying rolling the blood out of every grub on the screen with my necromancer
The HOTA Barb has felt consistently powerful at every level. It’s particularly vulnerable against ranged enemies but in a crowded room it’s just unstoppable. Not a lot of finesse though. icyVeins has a good guide for level 1-50 and then maxroll.gg was good for tier 3. I’m undecided what to do for S1, definitely want to try something new though.
PS2 God of War 1&2 lately. Also some Cult of the Lamb and Don't Starve Together.
Summer Sale! Just picked up Castle Crashers, Sable, Grounded and Tunic... Oh, and the freebie demo of En Garde!
Tears of the Kingdom and Brotato.
For me it's been XCOM 2, and now Skyrim. As well as Elden Ring a bit.
D4. It runs so smooth on it.
I picked up Library of Ruina for the summer sale. My God what have I gotten myself into?
Yakuza 6. It can't reach 60 FPS, but if you cap it to 30 it's pretty stable and only needs like 15W, despite looking pretty nice. I'd want to play System Shock on the Deck, but the devs are too dumb to figure out how cloud saving works, so alas.
Diablo 4 and Project Zomboid. Playing these games with a controller is an amazing experience. Took me a while to get used to with Zomboid tho.
Just finished Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood and I’m playing through Revelations for the first time
I've been playing a lot of RedOut2 and Before We leave.
Recently I've been cruising though Sludge Life
Mostly easy going and lighthearted games: Omno, Lil Gator Game, FAR: Lone Sails, Alba: a wildlife adventure, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Art of Rally. Next: Planet of Lana.
Sun Haven has been a lot of fun, controls can get a little weird though.
Mars First Logistics
Half life 2 Stardew valley 64 roms
Cassette beasts was a surprisingly fantastic pokemon clone. I'd take it over any pokemon game tbh.
Aside from that, my mainstays are:
The last game I've played on the deck is The Lake. Tried some Apico too, but I don't understand the goal in that game.
Played through most of the System Shock remake, currently playing through Deus Ex (the original).
Not sure if this is heresy here or not, but I just bought an ASUS ROG Ally. It’ll be here Wednesday and if you guys wanna recommend me some games, do!
Haha, well maybe a bit heretical considering this declares itself to be the successor to steamdeck_linux and not even just steamdeck. Guess I wouldn't worry about it too much though.
@k3yword @Pickle_Jr @steamdeck
Install Arch on it.
I finally got back to Tunic after a few months' break. Ended up finding a page and an item I had missed, and then it was smooth sailing to the next (second?) boss, which I found to be a super fun fight.
How does it run on Deck? I tried it briefly on Xbox thanks to Gamepass. The game looks lovely, the first hour or so was fun. It feels like a perfect deck game, but only if the performance is stable.
I've limited it to 45Hz IIRC, runs like a charm.
High on Life and Arkham Asylum. Also CS:Go but that's an everlasting game.
I tried csgo but found I was horrible on the deck, always been a mouse and keyboard gamer for me
Completed:
Currently playing:
How do you handle multiple games at once? I'm also trying to play most of my worthwhile games to at least finish the main storyline/quests.
I feel like I would forget about a game as soon as I start another game. then I have to restart the save because I forgot all the controls
I focus on one game at a time but it sometimes gets a little mind numbing playing the same game for nearly 100hours.. stardew valley I intended to finish everything possible but I got tired and moved on after about 80 hours. (I've completed what's considered the main story but was going to try complete everything after)
Currently finished
Playing
Will play next (probably in this order)
I try to games that don't have overlapping mechanics: if I'm in the mood for a puzzle, I play Baba is You. If I want something more casual, I play Sonic Racing.
Sometimes I do forget games, but I don't mind if that happens. Some games just don't stick. I try to buy games only when on discount, so I don't feel bad if I stop playing it.
I usually complete games, but never to 100%. What attracts me to a game is not usually what's involved in getting to 100% (e.g. I like the Arkham series just for gliding and stealth, so I don't bother with the Riddler collectibles)