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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fucking skyrim never dies!

[–] PastaRhythm 6 points 10 months ago

Say what you will about Bethesda and Skyrim, but they must have done something right because people still can't put it down over a decade later. I do want to play it at some point, but I don't know when I'll have that kind of time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Linked is an image of text. It's bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:

Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played

  • Baldur's Gate 3
  • ELDEN RING
  • DAVE THE DIVER
  • Stardew Valley
  • Vampire Survivors
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Brotato
  • Fallout 4
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
  • ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Slay the Spire
  • Hades
  • HoloCure - Save the Fans!
  • Remnant II
  • Halls of Torment
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At the bottom it does say “…by hours played” indicating it’s in ranked order.

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[–] captainlezbian 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I just love that binding of Isaac is still doing so well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The fact that you can play it with all the infinite goodness from the Workshop is a really strong selling point because it's thus the only mobile version of Isaac that is actually up to date + modded compared to mobile/console versions.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's my 80+ hours of Stardew Valley in the past week lol

Making a difference!!!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Halls of Torment

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

glad to see it sneaking up on the list here, looking forward to updates

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[–] momocchi 19 points 10 months ago

Amazed to see Holocure on there, pretty good going for a fan project

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

shoutout to all the brotato mains

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

seeing fallout 4 and skyrim still doing so well brings a smile to my face, at the time i genuinely bought a ps4 so i could play them

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[–] Ado 15 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Set resolution to 900p, turn all settings to low or off (especially Antialiasing and god rays) except for textures at medium and the AMD upscaling to ultra high quality. Enable slow HDD mode if you installed the game to an SD card. Increase text size.

Runs very smooth for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Setting to low isn't necessary. Runs great on Medium.

[–] brandon 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try turning off FSR in the graphics settings, it looks much better and clearer with it off.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Turn off FSR. I've got 30 hours into it and prefer it on deck over PC.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been happily adding to Dave the Diver's numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is amazing how every time you think "surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer" it fires off another bonkers event.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It's OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it's OK to play older games.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
-Baldur's Gate 3
-Dave the Diver
-Armored Core 6
-Holocure
-Remnant 2

If I'm counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I didn't search. Just did the ones I immediately recognized as recent big budget ones.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

It's the Steam Deck. Older games are gonna run better.

[–] SpacetimeMachine 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn't expect this list to be filled with new releases.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.

[–] DeskP1loti 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] kadu 8 points 10 months ago

Surprised to see Brotato so high.

Not because the game is bad, it's amazing, I love it on the Deck. But I didn't know it was that popular and I thought Vampire Survivors had obfuscated it. Glad to see it represented!

[–] FooBarrington 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's been awesome to see the success of Vampire Survivors. Such a technically simple idea that's so much fun!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Really cute and relaxing game. Lots of charm and perfect for the steam deck. In this game youre a dude named Dave, a diver, who catches fish by day and works in a sushi bar by night. I stopped playing zelda totk for this haha.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I’m really surprised to see Baldurs Gate 3 so high, as I’ve heard it doesn’t run too well on Deck.

I’ve been playing it nonstop on my pc, but don’t want to spend time downloading it on the Deck if it doesn’t run well and devours my battery. Is it better than I’ve been hearing?

[–] brandon 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I play it pretty much exclusively on my Deck and haven’t run into any performance issues that have bothered me. Patch 2 made things noticeably smoother so I expect it to get even better over time. I haven’t hit act 3 yet though and that seems to be where most people have problems in general.

Turning off FSR is a must if you don’t want a blurry mess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surprises me as well. I did briefly try it out on Deck but it seemed that my options were either very blurry or very laggy graphics. But still playable I guess if Steam Deck is your only option.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Honestly I know the Deck can run recent and current AAA titles but I generally have had just as much fun playing low-demand games like Stardew, Dead Cells, Caveblazers, etc.

[–] mr_tyler_durden 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone else have Halls of Tournament regularly crash on their steam deck normally when they’ve got about five minutes or less in a run? It’s like 30-50% of the time for me.

I love the game but the crashing (and loss of progress) sucks. I need to pick up Vampire Survivors since I know it’s similar and look fun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How is elden ring's performance on steam deck?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Medium graphic settings solid 30fps, or not that stable 40fps with sime settings turned down.

It was my mist played game on the deck befor baldurs gate 3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

40 is better than 30, IMO. It's not rock solid, but the drops mostly happen in transition areas where you aren't in combat, and 30 has very noticeable input lag.

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