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What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?

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[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Blodfest@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] cecirdr 9 points 1 year ago

BG3...soon. :)

[–] calculuschild@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.

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[–] wren@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] appel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Grim Fandango! The Steam Deck is perfect for finally tackling my backlog of older games. Also finished 198X recently which was short but good.

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[–] Arcenus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Tevren@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like a Dragon: Ishin!

Being able to pause and resume at any time and from wherever I'm taking my steam deck has been fantastic for the whole Yakuza series. It has kind of become my dedicated Yakuza machine, lol.

Lost judgment will be next!

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, exactly! The Yakuza games are really bad about surprisingly holding you hostage. I was playing though Yakuza Like a Dragon and had a 1.5 hour dungeon/boss fight/cutscenes sequence with no save points in between, and the deck's sleep function was absolutely crucial.

[–] sevanteri@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Just finished Lone Fungus and started Haiku the Robot. Both great little 2D metroidvanias.

[–] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I've just this evening started playing Hogwarts Legacy. Spent most of my time tweaking it to get it to run as well as I think it can do.

[–] schwar2ss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] madjo@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

Track mania. It’s a little addictive. Though I’m not good enough to participate in the online events, yet.

[–] PrivacyBean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I can't stop playing brotato. I say I'll do one more then another hour passes.

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Steamworld Heist and Olli Olli World. They fit what I want to play on the Deck: bite sized, good for lounging, a little more simple than what I want to play when I'm sitting at my desktop.

[–] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

No joke, Steamworld Heist got me through the first two weeks of being a parent.

[–] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

All the steamworld games are SO GOOD. I can't wait for Build later this year. The demo is already wonderful.

[–] rickrolled767@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I lately I’ve been playing elden ring since I got it on sale but before that I mostly used it to emulate a bunch of older titles. Love the consoles versatility

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[–] Dima@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Dead cells
Got it in the summer sales and the deck is a great way to play it

[–] Oha@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Red dead redempion 2, Doom Eternal, Team fortress 2

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] tesseract@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Diablo 4

Graveyard Keeper

Halls of Torment

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Been playing the guardians of the Galaxy game on it. It's a blast

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Been playing a bit of Close Combat 3: The Russian Front. Picked it up from the summer sale and I've been wanting to try this series for as long as I've known about it (I think I read about CC2 in a gaming mag when it was new). Fun game but not the easiest to get running and nobody seems to be playing the games in this series with Deck of even a controller so I didn't really find any controller mapping for it. WNot a huge issue since the game is fairly easy to control even with just a mouse.

I tend to play lots of strategy games and such that usually rely on the mouse quite a bit, the deck is such a great device for this use case.

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A healthy mix of:

  • Borderlands 1. Still getting used to playing fps on a controller. But flickstick+gyro sure helps.
  • Brotato
  • 20 Minutes Till Dawn

ETA: also, I should put some more time in Tunic.

[–] Kruulos@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I am somewhat of a patient gamer so I tend to focus on few years old games.

Currently playing Valkyria Chronicles which works pretty well on deck ( I hate how finicky accurate aiming is ). Non-interactive visual novel storytelling and turn based combat puzzles works really well for short periodic gaming moments.

Just finished Salt & Sanctuary and the remastered Grim Fandango. Both great on deck and good games overall

[–] tray@social.trayd.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

@Fubarberry I recently started Hyperlight Drifter. Great game so far, but its pretty difficult.

[–] Firefeet@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Barony! It just had a big update release yesterday, part of which was a UI overhaul that made it much more playable with a controller. Runs flawlessly on the Deck with compatability set to Proton mode; prior to the update I had issues running the default native Linux version (text and textures were garbled) but have not tried on the new patch.

It is a roguelike that feels more like actual Rogue or Nethack than anything I have played in a while and has great co-op support. I was having lots of fun learning the game before the update and am excited to spend more time with it, if the voxel-y graphics are not a turn off I definitely recommend it! Works well for shorter play sessions.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I used to play that game, I think I will add it to the deck, thanks!

[–] geemili@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mixolumia.

I haven't been playing much lately, and when I do sit down to play I don't feel like putting a ton of effort into anything. Mixolumia is easy to pick up and put down.

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[–] Tau@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Super Mario Galaxy 2

[–] pacogens@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Red Dead Redemption 2

[–] valtsu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

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.
[–] notme@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Control, after finishing quantum break and Alan wake before.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] notme@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] Klawn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I just finished Tohu, Kraken academy and Killer Paradise.

Killer Paradise was really cool. All success unlocked.

Kraken Academy was good but the loop is a little boring and the plot easy to guess. Some jokes were funny. All success unlocked too.

Tohu was good despite easy puzzle and very short.

I’m going for Remnant from the ashes, and trying to push a little more into ghostwire tokyo, and i’m tempted by Disco Elysium on the Humble Choice this month.

Also i will try grime, and waiting to be with friends to coop on fury unleashed.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Finally working on The Long Dark.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thps3 and pikmin 3.

Although I'm likely to buy baldursg gate 3 in a couple days once I've heard how it holds up

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[–] narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been playing a handful of games:

  • Demon’s Tilt: an excellent pinball game that runs great on the Deck. Also, the pixel art is very nice.

  • Hades: a great roguelike, finishing the last few side quests now.

  • Void Scrappers: a fun little survivors-like. Cheap and addictive.

  • Cassette Beasts: similar to Pokémon, if Pokémon had actually innovated in the last few years. Awesome mechanics, and all the battles are doubles matches.

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[–] ElkanNixed@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Working my way through the first few Resident Evil games. Currently playing the second remake one.

[–] kukkurovaca@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I got mine recently and have been playing a little bit of a lot of different stuff, but the thing I've put the most hours into has been Midnight Suns. I did not expect a Marvel game to my new favorite turn-based tactics deckbuilder, lol.

The stupid open world collectible part blows chunks, but the actual core gameplay is shockingly fun, if not perfectly tuned the way some deckbuilders are. The extremely weird lightweight high school dating sim / bioware relationship management aspect is very odd but produces some extremely funny interactions at times.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Shadow of Mordor

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Lolors17@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Horizon Zero Dawn, Super Hexagon and Hollow Knight. I tend to play Hollow Knight more often because Horizon Zero Dawn really drains the battery.

[–] wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com 2 points 1 year ago

Nova Drift is a great asteroids rogue like.

Castlevania IV from the advance collection (and it's frustrating AF) trying to do all of the classic castlevanias but I may hang this one up and move on. I feel like I spend more time fighting the controls than the platforming.

About two hours into Chained Echos after finishing Cosmic Star Heroine. I always have to have a jrpg going.

[–] freakrho@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'm finishing spider-man and will start miles morales after that

[–] LittleLordFauntleroy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Days Gone. Looks good, runs well, fun game. Almost at 60 hours so far but end is in sight. Got a few in mind after I finish but not quite decided yet.

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