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What "Great on Deck" titles have you been enjoying? (self.steamdeck)

submitted 9 months ago by InternetCitizen2 to c/[email protected]

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For it it has been Hollow Knight, Left 4 Dead 2, and Transport Fever 2.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do a surprisingly large amount of my gaming on the steam deck these days. My poor PC lies abandoned. Anyway... here are some great games that I've played recently on the deck. Some of them are Yellow - usually to use the keyboard for something minor.

Dead Cells: Roguelite action platformer
Tekken 8: best entry in years
Beneath Oresa: wildly stylish roguelite deck-builder
Roguebook: another roguelite deck builder - by Richard Garfield.
Talos Principle 2: Puzzles and Philosophy
Chants of Sennar: explore a mysterious tower and learn the languages - and lost history - of the inhabitants.
Doom & Doom Eternal: you know these
Tunic: Zelda Classic - but with deep puzzles
Inscryption: deck-building horror puzzler... that is soooo much deeper than what it seems.

A final, hesitant recommendation for

Dome Keeper: Roguelike Mr. Driller meets Paratrooper, with a tight one-more-run game play loop that is insanely satisfying.

But.. the menus don't work right for me in docked play - the A button is only randomly accepted. ... but it works fine in handheld mode. (The controls work fine in-game as well, it's only menus that have trouble.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@swordsmanluke @steamdeck Having a gaming PC in the house is still useful for me. I use it to remote play games that don’t run great on the steam deck or eat too much battery. Like Starfield or Baldurs gate 3. Only issue is there is currently a gamma bug in remote play making everything dark. I hope valve fixes it soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've streamed a few games but I'm on wifi and it's... fine? Like it works better than it has any right to, but anything that requires fast inputs has been iffy.

Even BG3 I generally preferred playing on the actual hardware instead of streaming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@swordsmanluke I guess it really depends on your wifi quality and lag tolerance. I have my PC wired in and really fast Ubiquiti Wifi AP’s so it’s not really noticeable here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Nice.

I'm on wifi end to end unfortunately. Because reasons my internet comes into the basement and my main diet is down there. My PC and the Deck are both on the main floor and have decent signal strength but the extra latency and occasional dropped frames make real time games... less fun for me.

Still, I can go play games on my PC when needed. It's literally less than twenty feet distant....I just really like the Steam Deck. :)