I’ve been playing a whole lot of Monster Hunter Rise. It runs really good, great performance and battery life (which makes sense considering it was originally a switch game). It’s my first real Monster Hunter game and I’m having a great time with it.
Only issues I’ve encountered: switching between docked and handheld play causes a minor fps drop until I restart the game. The game also has a utterly bizarre bug where if you’re playing with a controller designated as the 2nd player controller, any monster roar will drop the fps to 0 for like a minute. Super bizarre, no idea what kind of spaghetti code could cause that.
Edit: for anyone interested, Fanatical has a build your own monster hunter bundle right now that’s an incredibly good deal. Can get MH Rise + it’s big Sunbreak expansion for $11, previous best deal I had seen was $18 for the two. They also have MH World and a lot of other past MH games.
It does look like a nice deck game. I only ever played World, but I eventually got tired by the endless grind. How is Rise in this regard?
I haven’t played world, so unfortunately I can’t make a comparison. There’s definitely grinding to do though, hopefully someone who has played both can comment about it.
Octopath 2
Kotor and Kotor 2! They are great on the deck!
I’ve just started playing beam ng drive. Looks great so far, but I’m pretty shit at it.
If at first you crash and burn… well I mean it is Beam Ng so doesnt that mean you are actually playing the game right?
Tbh the physics makes crashes pretty fun. I do a lot of driving for my job and try to be a responsible, careful driver. So it’s nice to fire up the steam deck sometimes and drive like a complete wanker!
careful just like how violent video games will make you a stone cold killer addicted to violence eventually the addiction to speed will consume you until you become a lawless street racer straight out of midnight club. I have seen it happen over and over again to friends, eventually consequences always catch up with them… and they always end up losing their car in pink slip races to some new guy to the street racing scene who is shooting up the ranks improbably quickly and even has the eye of the coolest-most-badass street racer’s hot ex (who also street races)… it is a damn shame .
I use moonlight to stream my pc to my steam deck. It automatically sets the resolution and refresh rate when i connect. It amazing.
I’ve been playing red dead redemption 2 and i just finished crime scene cleaner yesterday. and as always, genshin impact.
Can you say why you do that? It’s it because you can play with better quality settings because you offload the work to your pc?
Not OP, but that’s one part of it. You can turn down graphics, and games will still look fine on the small screen, but some games just need some extra power.
I haven’t played RDR2 but something like Returnal runs okayish on the Deck, but runs great on my PC. If I want good framerates on the Deck, I need to turn everything down, and it’s acceptable on the go, but at home I could run it at 60 fps easy with better graphics if I stream it.
Yeah i like it that i can play the game on the highest quality and it makes the steam deck less hot and the battery last waaaaay longer :)
I also have it connected to my tv a lot so i can play pc games in 4k on the couch.
I also tend to switch between the steam deck and pc multiple times in a day, so having everything on one system is really nice.
Games like vampire survivor, emulators, bind of isaac, olders games etc, i play on the steam deck directly. But having immediate access to my xbox games pass library is also really nice ^^
Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.
Disco elysium has been one of the best games for me in 2024. Absolutely stunning game.
For some reason I’ve played Noita for the past month. Every time I’ve started to get bored I get a good run and the game dumps something new and interesting on my lap.
i havent tried it but you arent alone in feeling like it has staying power as a roguelike, people talk about it really highly even after long amounts of play time in my experience.
I have been playing a lot of games recently, but I think the one I want to highlight most is a game I have recommended in the past here.
Beyond All Reason is a free and open source RTS game inspired by Total Annihilation. It is based on the Spring RTS Engine and collectively BAR represents probably almost two decades of community development over the years and the game is at a really polished fun state at this point with a diverse variety of units and strategies.
The AI is good, it constantly probes your defenses, multiplayer is a blast with active lobbies, you can play PvP or PvE and there are a massive amount of maps. I know I am a weirdo but with gyro on I don’t find playing Beyond All Reason difficult at all. Am I going to out APM a mouse and keyboard player? Nope, but that isn’t really why I play RTS games anyways, and I can hold my own fine especially with the awesome action que system that BAR expanded on from Total Annihilation.
Honestly, I don’t think you are going to find a 3D RTS game with better performance on the Deck for the insane amount of units that get thrown around in a typical BAR match than the Spring RTS Engine/BAR, it is a fairly old 3d RTS engine that by today’s standards has extremely low system requirements but at the same time, everything is simulated. When a tank shoots at another tank in the Spring Engine, the tank aims and then launches a projectile… that projectile is modeled as a physical object and it may or may not hit its target. It is VERY impressive that there can be hundreds of units blasting it out on the battlefield in BAR, and the game just keeps chugging along somehow without melting my steam deck.
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
p.s. check out the new BAR trailer, can you believe this game is a free and open source game??!?
I’ve been passing through the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy again. It’s my favorite, and it means quite a lot to me.
Ryujinx 😁
Megaman Zero/ZX Collection and Persona 3 Reload
AND Mars 2120
Alien Isolation has been stressing me out for 30 minutes each evening 😅
So I had shoulder surgery a few weeks ago. I spent a lot of one-handed time on the couch. Played some Shapez 2 with a mouse on the couch via the deck, I played some the Witness (goofily with one hand on my xbox controller), some Slay the Spire, and some Stray
Been nice to have the ability to not sit at my computer when it was too uncomfortable
Slay the Spire is really nice for limited mobility. Turn based, point and click based. I like to play with one hand while I’m eating with the other.
Fallout 4. Recently finished trover saves the universe and super Mario wonder.
I heard all the controversy about Dustborn and picked up the free demo, it’s a decent little Telltale style game.
