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I'm guessing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

Fair enough. I know that style can be polarizing, it's why I put that caveat in there.

I really enjoyed Ys VIII ("Lacromosa of Dana"), if you can tolerate the kind of anime-ish story. It's an action RPG. It's not especially immersive (very game-y), but it's got pretty good level design, and the combat is pretty fun, if not particularly challenging (a little button-mashy).

I should preface this by saying I don't actually have a steam deck yet, so I haven't tested these on there. So I'm only commenting on the games themselves. These are listed as deck "verified" in the steam store, though.

One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Yoku's Island Express. Breezy summer vibes, not much difficulty. It's kind of a pinball metroidvania.

Tinykin is another game with a very cozy/low stakes feel. It's an exploration/collectathon platformer with cute environments made up of household objects.

Littlewood is a life sim sort of game, kind of like Stardew Valley, but it's extremely chill. There's no time limit or anything like that.

And others have mentioned these, but Toem, Alba, and Donut County are all very good and gentle games too.

Oh, and Tchia. That one has some dark moments at times, mostly in cutscenes, but when you're actually playing it's mostly gentle and island-y.

Maybe also Wuppo? It's a strange one. The story and humor and animation are pretty great in that one, but there are some boss fights that can get a little frustrating. It's mostly a fairly chill platformer, but then it's got kind of bullet-hell-adjacent bosses. I still really like the game, but it's not quite as purely relaxing as some of the others here.

Pikuniku is kind of in the same position as Wuppo, but I liked it a bit less. The humor feels a little more forced or stilted, and the frustrating bits are because the controls are kinda floaty. My niece really liked it when she was 8, though, so it had that going for it.

Hope this helps! I've been looking for this kind of game a lot the past few years

Thanks!

Oh, sure enough, that fixed it. I only cleared "cached images and files" and it loaded right up. Thanks!

I'm still getting the issue, but it seems to be specific to Firefox on Android. Chrome works, I'm just trying not to use that anymore. But I guess this is mostly a "me" problem. Thanks for your work on it, though! I'll just stick with the old interface for now.

This is on mobile, so, not really. It seems to work on desktop.

I tried this frontend and liked it, but the next time I went there I just got that spinning hypercube animation endlessly, with no other UI to interact with. Is there a forum to discuss that frontend or something?

At this point I actually wonder whether Steam Deck owners might represent the majority of Arch users.

I definitely considered FFmpeg (I mean, it does everything, and pretty much as fast as possible), but the sense I had was that people were mostly posting about tools that were reasonably accessible to novice users, with nice-ish interfaces. FFmpeg is pretty daunting to newcomers.

OpenSCAD (CAD, but with a programming language-style interface) is kind of in a similar category. It's pretty powerful, and for someone who thinks like a programmer it can be relatively easy to learn, but if you don't already understand 3d transformations on a pretty intuitive level, the program doesn't have a lot of features to ease you into that.

Adding on:

Inkscape - vector graphics program

Meshrom - photogrammetry

Handbrake - video transcoding

MakeMKV - rips DVDs and Blu Ray into video files

7zip - file compression and decompression

Droid48 - Truly excellent HP48 emulator for android

LibreOffice - free word processor & office suite (not without some recent drama though, I guess)

I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty, but hey, more for additional commenters to name.

Edit: Removed Audacity, apparently I'd missed privatization drama around that one too