Slay the Spire is a deck mainstay for me. A good run is 40 minutes to an hour.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I didn’t think of this one, but it’s a great suggestion. Graphics are simple, so it’s easy on the battery.
How about SNES or GBA emulation? For what it’s worth, many flights now have a power outlet between the seats
Seconding the emulation idea. Plenty of outstanding SNES games out there.
Stardew valley can get like 5-6 hours of battery easy on the steam deck
Chained Echoes. 16 bit RPG with great art and gameplay, but it's not hard on the battery and it has modern day QOL features.
100% support this. Feels like it was made for the deck. Gives me super big Game Gear vibes but like you said, with 2023 qol.
Emulating Gamecube games is pretty low-spec if you compile the shaders beforehand. Battery life nets 2-3 hours on flights for me (Steam Deck). I have nearly 2000 hours of Animal Crossing GC combined, pls don't judge me 😅.
Check out Celeste if you haven’t already. For me it’s the perfect 2D platformer and works really well on the deck. Think I clocked around 100 hours on it just on it alone!
Pizza Tower is fun.
Stardew Valley would be my pick.
Most planes nowadays have a charging port where you can plug in your phone for the duration of the flight. Therefore, I recommend getting an emulator on your phone and playing games on it. Usually if I want something casual, I get an NDS emulator and play Pokemon Platinum or HGSS. Other recommendations are FFIV, Etrian Odyssey III, Shin Megami Tensei, DQ4, some of these are ports but they run well on DS emulator.
My personal experience (US) is that most airplanes have chargers nowadays. However, the charger is very loose, and I could never make my charger fixed in the socket.
If OP could find a good socket, then this lucky person could enjoy 5 hour gaming with no interruption :)
I might be talking out of my arse, but you could bring a toothpick with you and try removing any fluff/grime from the socket before plugging in. Worked for my phone when the usbc charger wasn't secure.
I haven't tried this personally but maybe if you use a short extension cord it would work better? This should remove the weight of the DC adapter pulling on the connection to the outlet
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Hades was practically made for Steam Deck
Hades is great, but it's not very battery friendly for a 2d game in my experience.
Baba is You can last for over 6 and a half hours - the longest battery life I've ever seen on my Deck. You just need to enable the minimum TDP limit.
I also believe Brotato lasts a lot, Pixross too.
Tunic, hades, dead cells, some old rpg like fallout nev vegas or fable
can't recommend Tunic enough. Such an amazing game with extremely deep lore.
If you prefer some story-heavy games, you can try Eastward. It has gorgeous art style and controls and UI are a great fit for handheld devices such as Deck and Switch. It takes ~15% battery a hour and can be completed in 10 to 15 hours.
If you're fine with longer games which will take 45-70 hours total, try some 2D JRPGs like Trails in the Sky FC (which also has nice touch input in menus!), Trails from Zero and Chained Echoes. All tree aren't battery-heavy at all.
Bastion, Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Tunic are all great. I also really like emulation. I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom more on my Steam Deck than on my switch!
Play some factorio. You'll play it forever.
The factory must grow
I'm not.OP, but will also be on a long flight with steam deck soon. I keep hearing about Factorio and I think it's time to push the button.
Controls are more mouse/kb oriented, but there are a LOT of players that game on steam deck.
The factory must grow
Portal!
Dunno if it's your jam, but I just picked up Dead Cells and it's super light weight power wise. Also, retro emulation is usually pretty good on the battery. Get Emudeck going and some GB or GBA games and have a blast.
I just had a flight from PHL to PHX and back. I played Doom (2016) almost the whole time both ways. It would definitely kill your battery, but I would also check to see if your plane has outlets. My flights with American did.
Dredge Dredge Dredge!!!! GOTY for me personally. And I'm normally a desktop pc gamer.
Dredge is so dang good! Played the heck out of it on release and still thinking about doing a replay already.
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Star Traders: Frontiers on Android. Space trading rpg with depth and story. A bit grindy bit there's so many paths to take it can suck up hours (mind you it's difficult and you will die permadeths with many characters, it's mind boggling how many ways there are to succeed, just many more ways to fail too. Great way to spend a five hour flight.
If you're flying commercial, you should be able to charge your steam deck while you fly.
Tough to give anything concrete without preferences but I'll toss out a few. Chronicon is a great ARPG that's easy on the battery due to simple graphics (don't let them fool you). Voxelgram is 3d picross, if that happens to be your thing. Dicey Dungeons is a dice based roguelite that's totally full of charm.
FTL, Into the Breach, and Slay the Spire are mostly puzzle games -- but since they're roguelikes they have a little depth. Depends on what you mean.
I find them very replayable but I like puzzle games because I have bad hands and game controllers are not an option.
As for puzzles Baba is you is great
They have a little depth
I have well over 1000 hours on slay the spire across PC and Mobile. It has ALL the depth. Same for FTL.
Slay especially is insanely compelling since there is no time pressure.
I don't know how draining Celeste was, but it can't be too much. Most indie games probably work.
I found civ5 was great to play when i when on a 4 hour flight.
Cat quest will take you about 5 hours to beat and is light to run. Streets of Rogue is good too.
You could get Idol Showdown. It’s a 100% free fighting game that’s only 200 MB. It might not be the only game you’d want to take along though.
Wall World
I get 4 ish hours emulating the switch version of diablo 3. Easy to sink that much time or more into it
Wizard of Legend
I have no idea how well it performs on Deck but I need to get someone else to play this game
If you haven’t already bought it immediately because of the gut punch of nostalgia then maybe it isn’t for you, but I have to recommend Megaman Battle Network
I like playing through KEMCO games when I'm bored, though they're mostly turn-based JRPG games. My favorite is Asdivine Dios.
Portal!
Rogue Legacy. Good game, replayability, doesn't drain the batt
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