What are your favourite casual games on the steam deck?

Deep Rock Galactic, I play it exclusively on single player with the little robot buddy. On easier modes it’s pretty chill and pauses well if you need to stop in the middle of a mission.

Sable is just a relaxing exploration game. No real combat, just riding through a desert on a hover bike. Cool art style.

Inscryption is a creepy deck builder, with some wild turns. Don’t look up much or spoilers abound.

Moonring is a free old school rpg. Graphics are classic but the game is a great throwback with some modern gameplay.

Thanks for reminding me to get back into Inscryption. I thought that game was neat but dropped it for something else before I learned it has like five acts.
Sable always had a tendency to make the Deck heat up like crazy and burn through battery in no time, but otherwise it's a great game to play in bed 😁

Dave the Diver for sure

Oh yeah, Dave is amazing. It is "one of those games that tries too hard to be too many different games at once and ends up a mess", except Dave pulls it off.

If casual means relaxed to you, factorio. Their new controller integration is great. But be careful, it's highly addictive.

Oh, I love (and own) factorio. But I never tried it on the deck, because I did not think that it would play well with a controller. But I will give it a try. Thank you
- Be sure to check community control layouts, and not just the default.
  
  I've had several games I thought would be terrible on a controller, only to discover someone had invented an ingenious and intuitive layout already.
How new is it? I've tried it a couple of months ago, and while it seems good, it was still too clunky

Peglin and Dome Keeper are pretty great.

Also Rogue Legacy 2 if that's your kind of thing.

Peglin has been my go-to for a while now.

If you could imagine slay the spire rogue like mechanics in a pachinko machine that's Peglin.

I'd say Placid Plastic Duck Simulator, but that is a bit heavy for the Deck.

Sunshine Heavy Industries is "stick together legos to build cool looking ships".

Toem is a great little easter egg hunt with your camera.

Rain On Your Parade is a dreadfully cute "you are a cloud and you cause problems" campaign.

Unpacking, Hardspace and more are in a Humble bundle right now, heard good things about them

With great suggestions like Hardspace, Unpacking, and Rain on your parade, I need to check out some of these others. Hardspace is on my Mt Rushmore of smaller games.

I really enjoyed both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Beautiful 2D platformer with great soundtrack. Find the bundle on Steam

The second Ori is one of the absolute most powerful storylines I've ever experienced in a game. I can't believe how good it was, especially because the first game had a very light story

Noita, Slay the Spire, Children of Morta, Brotato...

Thank you for reminding me about Children of Morta... I wonder which shiny new game i got that made me forget to finish it...

The Lego games! Perform well on the deck, are often on sales and cover many different franchises. The games aren't difficult, but there's plenty to do and explore and a good bit of humor. Currently playing through the Skywalker Saga, super easy to pick up and just explore

That solely depends on the question what you consider "Casual". I'll go with the definition "a game that doesn't need a significant time investment per play-session".

Super Hexagon: Amazing music, simple game, but challenging.
Triptych: Tetris with soft body physics. The game is great, the sound a bit annoying. Also, I don't think it's available on Steam, so it needs manual installation (and input bindings).
Cultist Simulator: While the game is very obscure, it doesn't require a lot of time per session - you can start it, play 5 minutes, and exit it again.
Hades: It's a Roguelite. You die. A lot. That's why each session can be rather short.
Loop Hero: It's not as "casual" as the others, as it takes some time for each run, but not too much.

Binding of Isacc: Afterbirth+ feels like it was made for the deck.

Risk of rain returns just dropped, that's going to have a permanent home on my deck's ssd

Goat Simulator is always fun

Peglin was incredibly fun on the Steam Deck.

I use the Heroic Games app to play my GoG and Epic Games library.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion was free last week so I’m playing that and it’s cute/fun.

I like to play roguelites, adventure games, and side scrollers when Im out. So I'd recommend Wizard of Legend, Lunistice, A Hat In Time, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and Hi-Fi Rush.

All of these games are less than 20 Gb, and they're great on the deck. Hopefully they go on sale soon for you.

ULTRAKILL, Halo MCC Multiplayer and Super Hexagon.

How can you play Ultrakill with a controller?? I legitimately have no idea how that's possible
- I have to turn on the assist thingy in the settings. And with a custom deck layout it becomes really enjoyable.

Wedding Witch

Lil Gator Game for a pretty short (maybe 4ish hours), VERY cute love letter to growing up and Zelda. 3D adventure sort of platformer I suppose, not dissimilar to A Short Hike

Having slot of fun with cocoon right now

I haven't heard of it yet but I'm going to assume it's based on the 1980s movie.
- It is. You play as Wilford Brimley battling Diabetes.

I've heard good things about Cozy Grove, though I haven't played it yet. Seems like a good Steam Deck game