"top 20 by hours played" doesn't specify order though, does it? Sure, it's expected. But not explicit. I guess you expect "20 most played games" otherwise?
The fact that you can play it with all the infinite goodness from the Workshop is a really strong selling point because it's thus the only mobile version of Isaac that is actually up to date + modded compared to mobile/console versions.
I stopped playing after the second stages final boss took no damage. I spent 20 minutes on him and got him 1/4th of the way dead maybe. Ended up just quitting the run.
Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It's OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it's OK to play older games.
I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn't expect this list to be filled with new releases.
Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong
Set resolution to 900p, turn all settings to low or off (especially Antialiasing and god rays) except for textures at medium and the AMD upscaling to ultra high quality. Enable slow HDD mode if you installed the game to an SD card. Increase text size.
Maxing out AA was a big help for me, with there being some weirdness due to the option resetting to off on game restart. I'm not sure I'd that's been fixed in the latest patch.
Yup, never ceases to amaze me! If with no context you'd described to me everything the game throws at you, I'd straight up think it'd never work but, amazingly, it all somehow fits together nicely. Hell, the base roguelite + management sim premise is wild enough on its own lol.
Very much looking forward to whatever they come up with next!
Really cute and relaxing game. Lots of charm and perfect for the steam deck. In this game youre a dude named Dave, a diver, who catches fish by day and works in a sushi bar by night. I stopped playing zelda totk for this haha.
I’m really surprised to see Baldurs Gate 3 so high, as I’ve heard it doesn’t run too well on Deck.
I’ve been playing it nonstop on my pc, but don’t want to spend time downloading it on the Deck if it doesn’t run well and devours my battery. Is it better than I’ve been hearing?
I play it pretty much exclusively on my Deck and haven’t run into any performance issues that have bothered me. Patch 2 made things noticeably smoother so I expect it to get even better over time. I haven’t hit act 3 yet though and that seems to be where most people have problems in general.
Turning off FSR is a must if you don’t want a blurry mess.
Same with cyberpunk, people can play it on steam deck? I dont think i can play FPS games there at all, less alone on a small screen with 30 fps (at best)
Nah, Cyberpunk runs well. 30 to 40 in my experience, the real issue is the fucking tiny text that can be barely big enough to be readable, that red font isn't helping either. I think my time with it is split roughly in half between my desktop and Deck. You do need to try find good settings, but I mean it's a handheld so some effort is required.
Baldur's Gate I also play on either system, but I get the bit about it being blurry. I took a fair amount of time figuring out how to get rid of it, I can go grab a screenshot or two with my settings if anyone wants them. It keeps at 30 more or less reliably... but it's important to mention I'm still in act 1. The super weird part is how for some reason it's less buggy on the Deck! Very puzzling. On the desktop it seems to leak memory and that ends up in horrible stuttering, then with some bad luck it can stop accepting inputs aside from menu stuff and movement, and this one seems to be fixable by loading the save on the Deck.
Surprises me as well. I did briefly try it out on Deck but it seemed that my options were either very blurry or very laggy graphics. But still playable I guess if Steam Deck is your only option.
I had the blurinnes only if i enabled TAA, no problems with SMAA, but it still sucks the battery dry and frame rate in act3 was not good. If combat wasnt turn based i'd would not play it on the deck.
Not because the game is bad, it's amazing, I love it on the Deck. But I didn't know it was that popular and I thought Vampire Survivors had obfuscated it. Glad to see it represented!
Gotta assume those BG3 Steam Deck numbers are gonna tank as people get into acts 2 and 3. Act 1 runs quite well on deck, but no amount of low settings or disabled features provides an acceptable level of performance.
There are bugged quests, glitched cameras and abruptly disappointed dialogue aplenty in the back half of the game, for sure. Mind sharing your complete game settings? And are you overclocking or something? I'm genuinely astounded by the performance you're getting and would like to try to recreate.
Yeah, I went back and tried it again yesterday, fully updated. I have no idea how anyone is getting 30 FPS on steam deck in act 3, unless they're in the camp or something.
Honestly I know the Deck can run recent and current AAA titles but I generally have had just as much fun playing low-demand games like Stardew, Dead Cells, Caveblazers, etc.
Does anyone else have Halls of Tournament regularly crash on their steam deck normally when they’ve got about five minutes or less in a run? It’s like 30-50% of the time for me.
I love the game but the crashing (and loss of progress) sucks. I need to pick up Vampire Survivors since I know it’s similar and look fun.
Try Performance Mode in HoT's settings. My first time I made it to 30 minutes, my game crashed. I turned on Performance Mode, and it's been running just fine ever since. With the retro PC game vibe they're going for, Performance Mode arguably adds to the experience!
That said, your game crashes when you're five minutes into a run? I did hear that the game can have crashing issues on Steam Deck, but that's a little extreme. Not sure if Performance Mode will fix that.
I probably contribute like half the hours Fallout 4 is getting, once you go through the pain of getting modding working how you want, it's so easy to sink another hundred or so hours into it.
Lil Steamie Decky is hauling ass with 200 plugins just fine (assuming you don't mind cranking everything to low settings, but you won't notice it much on that display)
40 is better than 30, IMO. It's not rock solid, but the drops mostly happen in transition areas where you aren't in combat, and 30 has very noticeable input lag.