For me I’m currently trying to push my way through elden ring. But gosh it sure gets hard half way through, especially underleveled and offline. I need to find that mimic summon.
Other than that, cycling through local coop games like PlateUp. Any suggestions?
Been playing some minecraft java editiom, since the 1.20 update just dropped.
No Man’s Sky is my first deck game. Haven’t had enough time to get too far, found it tough to slip away long enough to play for decent chunks of time.
I’ve been enjoying Diablo 4 on my Deck. Runs great and controls great.
Other than that I’ve been playing around with emulators to play some classic games I own that are not yet backwards compatible on my Xbox.
How was it getting it set up? I tried getting Hearthstone running several months ago and ran into some problems.
Pretty easy. You can install any launcher easily with this: https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck
For Diablo 4 you don’t want the high res textures. Put the settings on medium and set the FPS to 45 and you’re good to go.
For emulators you can easily install and set them up using https://www.emudeck.com/
Been playing Deep Rock Galactic on the deck. Also finished up RimWorld recently, which actually worked pretty well on the deck.
How’s haz 5 with a controller? If I can viably have portable DRG I’m gonna take the dive and splurge on a deck lol
I usually play DRG with a controller, the controls aren’t bad! For the deck, I think it’s okay, switching weapons can get a little crazy because of the d-pad placement. The ergonomics can get a little awkward when it gets fast paced because of that. I usually play with a buddy who is way better than I am at DRG, so my answers are probably pretty biased, hah.
Just got an xbox so going to play a bit of cod
I finally got totk running on Yuzu at a playable setting. But I’m 2/3 of the way through it on my switch lite. So torn on starting fresh on the deck or just finish it on the lite. The screen is so small and crappy compared.
Deck itself just started Hi-fi Rush. Such a cool game.
Cassette Beasts is really fun but I’ve mostly caught everything now so I’m running out of motivation to finish, just like I always do with the actual Pokemon games.
A friend made me try Runescape (3, not Old School) a few months back for the first time in my life. Then they quit and left me hooked and alone, so I do a lot of late night grinding on the deck when I’m too tired for a proper game.
Chivalry 2 on the deck has become a comfort food for me too. No thoughts, just run in and get slaughtered vibes, then run in again.
I’ve been waiting for the time tracking plugin for non-Steam games to reappear as I care too much about statistics. It’s taking some time though so I’ve instead taken a break from videogames instead, as it turns out.
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You play ONI on the Steam Deck? Does it work well?
I’ve played that also and it honestly does super well.
I play it on Ubuntu with proton and it works perfectly well. It very very rarely crashes.
I’ve just bought Espresso Tycoon, and it seems like a charming little indie game, so my plan is to play through that when I have the time this weekend.
I got Humble Choice, so I’ll try Ghostwire and Grime.
Ghostwire is unplayably low fps sadly, even at the lowest settings
I was playing Fire Emblem Engage (Lunatic/Classic difficulty), but then I started replaying Disco Elysium and got hooked on that one all over again. I was pleasantly surprised by how well it controls on the Deck – great way to kill time on the train!
I’ve been interested in trying Disco Elysium, good to know that it runs well on the Deck! You mentioned playing on the train - is it a good game to play in short bursts?
You can definitely play it in bits if you’re able to follow the game log. It keeps track of all the conversations and bits that you need to remember.
There’s no action in the game, so there’s nothing you can’t just put down and pick up later, as long as you can remember what you were in the process of doing or where you were going.
Hmm… I’d say you really need at least 20 minutes of time to have a properly satisfying session with Disco Elysium. That’s just fine for me because the train frequency in my city (Atlanta) is particularly shit, but results may vary otherwise.
One game I can recommend for play in short bursts is Slay the Spire. Even if you’re just sitting down for five mintues, you can usually manage to get something accomplished and ascend a few nodes.
My bus ride is about 60 minutes so that should be enough then. Thanks! Yeah, I really like Slay the Spire and similar games (e.g. Wildfrost) for really short bursts.
Just got started on My Time at Sandrock after the cozy/family friendly games sales. It runs at a stable 30 FPS so far & I’m enjoying the game. Once SoS:aWL releases later this month, I’ll be switching over though.
I’ve been working on Forza 5 Horizons and chilling with some Transport Fever 2. Both run really well.
Haven’t tried any local coop games, but gaming via cellular hotspot in a bad signal area seems to be working out fine for games that don’t need heavy bandwidth.
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021, and No Man’s Sky.
How is Car Mechanic on the Deck?
Works pretty smooth in my opinion. About the only noticeable change I see from desktop is it automatically moves to the next bolt when mounting or unmounting a part. Repairing parts and salvaging scrap is just slightly more difficult in my opinion, but that could just be a ‘me’ issue coming from keyboard/mouse and not use to controllers.
