What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
Path of Exile. It’s been great on the Steam Deck and I’m going through the last few days of this league. Once that finishes I’ll start putting a lot more time into Street Fighter 6 (with the compact portable hitbox controller I made) and some Eldest Souls on the side.
I have a Diablo 4 addiction. It runs surprisingly well on my Deck. Only problem is it requires the internet, so I can’t play it anywhere outside of the house.
I know I’ll probably pick it up eventually, but I wanted to wait and see if Blizzard ruined the game through the early patches. Diablo 3 eventually turned out good, but playing during the launch year was a rough experience.
Besides, if I wait long enough there’s now hope they’ll release it on steam.
I’m baffled by how poorly Diablo 4 handles “mediocre” connections. I have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while and I’m even able to stream GeForce Now reasonably well, but I run into lag spikes on Diablo 4.
I don’t think it’s a network problem. I think Diablo has a memory leak that causes issues that are especially noticeable on the Steam Deck. I’ve heard it’s getting patched out soon, but not sure where I got that info from. One of my Discord friends I think…
I can pretty well track my performance issues to network performance. If I play in the morning when TMHI is performing better I don’t see any issues, while in the evening when the network is congested I run into lag.
Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.
Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.
Tiny text and 40s eyes cause me to want to play a lot of stuff docked, but Hollow Knight was a fantastic experience on the Deck.
Dave the diver. Game keeps so surprising me, its so good! 30 hours in and it feels like i just started, works flawless on the deck aswell.
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Morrowind.
Have you been playing through OpenMW or the original client?
OpenMW, and it works well. I haven’t tried the original.
OpenMW is THE way to go now. Don’t even consider the original engine.
BG3…soon. :)
Just started Witcher 3. Had no idea what I was missing.
Is it working well ? What settings are you using ?
Yeah it runs really smooth, it even has a steam deck settings preset
I’m hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend
I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky, but just picked up Shadows of Doubt and have been having a blast with that.
Shadows of Doubt has a weird bug
where loading into the initial menu takes several minutes instead of a few seconds.Edit: Update came out today that fixed this! Haven’t figured out why yet, but the developer is working on a fix and the game runs pretty decently outside of that. Using a community control scheme is recommended because the default controller scheme leaves something to be desired.I’ve just wishlisted Shadows of Doubt. Seems interesting.
Fanatical actually has it on sale right now for 30% off. Biggest sale on steam so far is just a 20% sale, so the fanatical deal is pretty good.
Blasphemous right now. Plays excel·lent bar some issues with resolution. Changing resolution can result in the game freezing when doing an attack, and it keeps happening even if you relaunch the game. I found somewhere that shutting off and on the deck solves it, and it’s true.
As for gameplay having downed three bosses (+ the tutorial one at the start), it’s fun! Maybe too cryptic for my taste, I’ve had to open a guide a couple of times. But the gameplay it’s tight and challenging.
Played again The Outer Worlds and DLCs a couple weeks back and preferred the deck experience over my first play-through on the XBox. Currently playing High on Life and I’m not really convinced, way to linear and controls are… not really optimal.
All time favorite: No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley, Witcher3
Grim Fandango! The Steam Deck is perfect for finally tackling my backlog of older games. Also finished 198X recently which was short but good.
198X seems cool. I tend to play lots of older games on my deck too, mostly old DOS/Windows releases which can run with Wine/Proton or Dosbox for me.
Yep, it’s a great throwback for sure.
Finished Dave the Diver, loved it!
Now playing Halls of Torment, have played and finished Vampire Hunters, HOT is a bit different, I miss the swinging music of VH. that said it’s fun to figure out and explore HOT.
Same. Dave the Diver ! It’s so cool !
Diablo and Dave the Diver
Woo Dave the Diver!
Great game for the Deck
I’ve been on a Binding of Isaac binge. I thought that I had my fill with it over the years but the deck has really put a new life into it. It’s a perfect fit. And I am finding myself playing it again even on the desktop. I thought that I wasn’t gonna need Repentence but I guess I will have to get it now.
It’s my favorite game. Deck is great for it. Isaac anywhere. Great battery life on it too.
I have 1000 hours on Repentance on Steamdeck and it’s fantastic. Really recommend it
What control layout are you using? I tried to install this a while back (maybe a year ago?) And at the time the control layouts I found were horrible and made it no fun to play.
I was used to the standard layout from playing on the desktop so I didn’t even bother to look at alternatives: move with left stick, shoot with buttons, activate items with triggers and bumpers.
I am curious which part are you unhappy with. Should be easy to customize.
I’d have to go back and reinstall. Maybe I did something wrong, but I remember it like, not even working to control it.
