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Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified (kotaku.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The top 100 list has already been posted, but I thought this article makes some interesting observations on the list.

Overall the variety of games and experiences on that list really show how versatile the deck is, and that people can still have a great time with games that aren't a perfect experience on the deck.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I can vouch for BG3, it runs surprisingly well (fans going to the max of course). I have graphics on medium with the upscaling AMD FSR 2.2 on and it's perfectly fine on both the small screen and connected to the TV.

Re: OP's thoughts, I also have a desktop but usually my spouse is on it :) The SteamDeck also travels a lot nicer of course!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's pretty fine until act 3 when the sheer amount of NPCs running around max out the CPU usage and drop the FPS down below 20 pretty much no matter what graphical settings you try to run as there is just no power left for the GPU.

OTOH, BG3 is a turn based game so low FPS isn't an obstacle for playing it, it's more of a visual nicety, like higher resolution or clearer textures, itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it runs surprisingly well

Have to disagree 😂 I mean it runs fine with all the graphics at bare minimum. Which is not great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I have the low, low standards of "does it run at all and I can stand to look at it" lol, in which it performs pretty well! I definitely wasn't planning on playing current release AAA games on the deck so anything that runs I'm pleasantly surprised.

My wife played the beta version on the deck last summer, and let me tell you, that version was baaaaad. It's really improved with the new upscaling!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe I have the low, low standards

Well you're in good company. Just not with me. I play on a living room PC.