What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
Cities Skylines cause I’m hyped for C:S2. Also started and finished Layers of Fear 2, great game!
Gloomhaven
Hades
Baldur’s Gate III
Ravenswatch
I’ve been trying to get my DnD group to get BG3 or Gloomhaven digital (while we wait for our copy of Gloomhaven 2.0 to ship next year) so we can play stuff in between tabletop sessions. Ravenswatch is what a couple of them joined in on. It’s the weakest of the games I’m currently playing but anything is more fun with friends.
It’s been mostly Diablo 4 for me, but I’m also playing a ton of Picross via Yuzu. While I own these games on Switch, I really much more prefer the feel of Steam Deck in my hands.
Understandable, it was really hard going back to the switch when TotK came out.
The discomfort of playing on the tiny switch after getting used to the deck was what finally motivated me to hack my switch so I could legally get game roms and save files off of it.
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.
- Horizon Zero Dawn
Control, after finishing quantum break and Alan wake before.
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.
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).
Only just got my Deck. Still in the process of doing upgrades and mods. But while I have been testing my overclock and cooling mods and whatnot, I have put a few hours into Elden Ring and it’s awesome on the Deck. The load times are insanely fast compared to my actual high-end gaming laptop. Looking forward to starting a new save on the Deck, after I have everything setup the way I want it. Waiting on a 2tb ssd to replace the 1tb that I just put in the a few days ago. Need to get that swap done before I can finish the cooling mod.
I’ve also put a couple of hours into the Demon Slayer game while testing. That game runs at a locked 60 fps, and plays amazingly.
Thanks to the Baldur’s Gate 3 hype, decided to finally jump into a CRPG and went with Divinity Original Sin 2 DE after trying Pillars of Eternity DE. I tried before, but didn’t have the right mindset.
Loving DOS2 now!
It’s a classic. I’m going to revisit it after my BG3 playthrough. I never did complete it previously.
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.
Horizon Zero Dawn, Super Hexagon and Hollow Knight. I tend to play Hollow Knight more often because Horizon Zero Dawn really drains the battery.
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.None. I got it so my partner could play video games on the couch with me while I’m smackin moblins in Hyrule.
I just played Spider-Man Remastered. Had a blast. Thought I might get motion sick swinging around, but it wasn’t an issue at all.
A smaller screen probably helps reduce the chance of motion sickness.
I’m hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend
