[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck?

Got my hand on a free copy of dredge last week, so i'll play that for a while.

After finally upgrading to a 1TB ssd yesterday, I can finally splurge on some bigger games.

So right now I'm mostly playing vampire survivors

I get what you're saying, but the sentence order definitely sounds like you needed to upgrade to 1TB of storage in order to play bigger games like Vampire Survivors.
- it was a little bit intended as the joke (although a true one)

The Witcher 3 two DLCs, now that I finished the base game.

You are up for a treat. This game if phenomenal
- Yes, became my absolute favorite game :)
Hell yeah! Both DLC are so cheap on GOG during black Friday .
- Yeah, even the bundle of the base game together with both dlc is a steal.

Tunic. This game is beautiful and sessions on a full battery can last a while without charging. Highly recommend.

This game evoked a feeling of wonder and discovery that I’ve rarely felt since childhood

Currently Metal Gear Rising.

This one is such a banger. Look up guides on how to parry consistently if the game didn’t explain it well enough. It’s crucial to the enjoyment of the game, yet it is explained oh so poorly.

Playing Pentiment right now

Is it good, it's been on my wishlist for quite some time waiting for a bigger discount.
- yeah, I'm in the last 1/3 of the game and it's been really good. Getting used to the medieval script in dialogue bubbles took some time, but it's definitely worth it.

I broke down and bought Baldur's Gate 3. I really tried to like it, but I did not.

So now I bought Horizon: Forbidden West, but the Deck can't play it, so I'm playing that on my desktop.

with the latest 1.5 patch you can easily reach 60fps during normal gameplay (all low settings, FSR3 frame gen enabled). you can even reach 90fps incertain cases. its honestly impressive what they were able to squeeze out of the steamdeck.

https://www.protondb.com/app/2420110?device=steamDeck

I’m sure your desktop plays it better, but it should now work on the Deck despite the unverified status (this is the case more often than not).
- Whaaaaat?? Friend you just made my night! Thank you!

Mad Max, snatched it for 2 bucks during the sale. Pretty good and chill game and well worth its price.

Whoa. It runs on deck? I just finished it on desktop. Completionist wise it was such a burden and I wish it didn't have any achievements. Hopefully your sand trip is awesome!
- It runs beautifully.

Nearly done with Metaphor ReFantizio, and also playing some Astalibra and FEAR.

I recently found out that FEAR won't run well on modern windows PCs, and installed it on my Deck to see if it ran better on linux. Turns out it runs fantastically, with the Deck able to outperform any windows machine. I intended to only test performance, but FEAR is one of my favorite shooters of all time and I quickly got suckered back in. So I guess I'm going to do a full playthrough now.

Monster Hunter: World + Iceborne was on sale so I snagged it and I've enjoyed it quite a bit. Runs just fine on the deck and even though the game is clearly intended for multiplayer it works totally fine as a solo game.

The main issue I had with the game is that there's no pause button (as mentioned, it's a game oriented towards multiplayer) which isn't really compatible with my current life but with Decky Loader and the Pause Game plugin installed I can easily pause the game mid-quest without worrying about failing the time limit.

Bluey: The Videogame. Worked past the resolution issues, the control issues, and now it is great fun with the 4 year old.

One of the games I picked up on Steam Sale was Cobalt Core. Fantastic game, it ate my entire Thanksgiving break lol

I spend hours setting up mods for games I’ve never played before so I can play the “best” version of it just to either get it working and play for a hell of a lot less time than I spent setting it up or giving up and going back to one of my comfort games.

Mouthwashing, which I should finish tonight, Selaco - this one required a bit of tweaking but can mostly hold 60 now - and Balatro.

I bought Against the Storm a few weeks ago and that has taken most of my gaming time. Just bought Hogwarts Legacy from the sale, I’ll probably fire that up sometime soon.

How do you deal with the janky text? I found it hard to learn the game with it all so aliased.
- For which game? I haven’t played Hogwarts yet but I just scaled up the UI for Against the Storm and have no issues reading the text.

Fallout New Vegas with Viva Las Vegas. Plays great.

Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Rocket League, Silent Hill 2

Half life 2, forza 4, tloz links awakening and vampire survivors.

Deus Ex

I've just 100%ed Super Mining Mechs

I got Fields of Mistria during the sale. It's very similar to Stardew Valley, which I also enjoyed.

Space Marine 1, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, Slay the Spire, Cross Code, and Droplitz.

Guild Wars 2 for most of the time lately. That and Fallout 4 and done Torchlight 2.

Been replaying Watch_Dogs recently. Works surprisingly well. Probably going to play Gestalt next.

Started rim world again after a year break.

Still playing Helldivers 2 since I got it. Fun game that

Thanks for the suggestion of helldivers, I got in enough training on bots and droids just before the illuminate showed up. Had a blast mowing them down with my machine gun and orbital laser!
- Super Earth thanks you for your service, Helldiver!
  
  Hopefully, they are back soon. Had a blast getting mowed down by the harvester lasers from outta nowhere and learning how to fight something completely foreign
I'm tempted, how is it in the deck, fps seems hard to do with it mouse and keyboard
- I play level 8 without any real issues. It has a deck preset for graphics now. It definitely isn't a stable 30 but it is in now way unplayable. I routinely walk away with a death or two plus about 550 kills vs both bots and bugs.
  
  It ain't the prettiest game especially when played on a TV but I've been gaming for 30 years and it doesn't bother me anymore if a game isn't the sleekest looking. That said, if you only play handheld, it still looks pretty remarkable. And I have no issue using a controller since it was built for PS5

Still playing bg3

Castlevania Dominus Collection. I don't know how I ever beat the games way back when, now I have to rewind during boss fights a lot. Got bored with Dawn of Sorrow as it dragged on towards the True Ending, really enjoying Portrait of Ruin. Johnathan's mobility combined with Charlotte's "fuck you and everyone around you" make such a great team.

Palworld when I want to focus a little bit

BG3 when I want to focus a lot bit

Balatro when I want to focus none bit

[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - December 2024