For it it has been Hollow Knight, Left 4 Dead 2, and Transport Fever 2.
Dicey dungeons rogue like like slay the spire but changing cards with dices and abilities. The battery lasts forever in that game.
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.)
@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.
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.
@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.
I really enjoyed Dredge, Dave the diver runs also great on the Deck, but personally Dredge is more beautiful and controls are feeling more intuitive.
I also enjoyed The Forgotten City, the Long Dark, and The Outer Wilds.
Heck even God of war runs surprisingly well on the Deck.
The only problem I have is with shooters, because of the finicky aiming mechanism, even with the trackpad.
Can second dredge, really solid on the deck!
have you tried the gyro aiming features?
check out apature desk job if you haven’t yet as there is a neat gyro aiming section and it’s free.
Not OP, but I didn’t know this was a thing, so thank you!
I always activate it for shooters, then remember I play mostly in the subway.
These are pretty much always installed on my Deck:
Dead Cells
Dragons Dogma
Binding of Isaac
Children of Morta
These I finished recently on SD in one form or other:
Dishonored
The Stick of truth
…but there are plenty
How well does Dishonored run the Steam Deck? I have been thinking of getting one and Dishonored is one of the games I want to play on it.
I played D2 on the deck and it worked fine after tuning the graphics settings. Though I fully admit when things got tricky I docked and used kb&m.
So it should be completely fine with D1, awesome!
Awesome. Smooth 60 fps on mid-high settings and battery life was around 3 hours.
Also loading times were like 2-3 sec so it’s one of the best titles for the Deck I experienced so far.
Brotato as a mindless standby.
Hogwarts Legacy is running pretty damn well, as did Cyberpunk 2077.
Use Mods in Brotato then You will have no time for other games :)
Any particular ones you recommend?
Like a dragon infinite wealth, one of my favorite franchises and it runs very well on deck.
Marvel Midnight Suns is perfect on deck.
Vampire Survivors and Death Must Die are fun on the Deck.
bloodstained, P5R, halls of torment, yakuza 3, risk of rain returns, project zomboid, and streets of rogue.
I highly recommend pony island, the longing, and yuppie psycho as well.
Limbo & Inside.
I don’t know if officially great on deck or not but
- Venetica
- Mudrunner
- revolt
- baldurs gate dark alliance 2 (ps2)
- dead or alive 2 (Dreamcast)
- Quake 2 remastered
- the Talos principle 1
- F355 challenge (Dreamcast)
- immortal redneck
- Deep rock galactic
- viper racing
- drag
- exanima
- reactive drop
- kandria
- overload
- pulsar lost colony
- all system shock games
- Sven co-op
Quite the menu, are you doing those on emulators or are they ported?
Some of them played through emudeck or heroic game launcher but all accessible from deck game mode
Levelhead if you’re a fan of precision platformers. It’s very much a cuter Mario Maker but it does have its own “story mode” of sorts as well.
This is a really cool game. I wish more people played it.
Portal reloaded and portal revolution are pretty great on deck.
Yakuza Kiwami right now (although I haven’t picked it up in a while).
95% of my entire yakuza play through has been on the steam deck, from 0, to kiwami 2, which I just finished a couple minutes ago. such a good series and runs great, all at 60fps high textures
I wish I could play Yakuza 0 for the first time again… such a high quality experience, nothing came even remotely close.
5 and 6 aren’t playable on the deck, so I play Like a Dragon… it’s decent.
Anyone played Judgement?
@msage @steamdeck Judgement is good, I wish these games didn’t have endless cutscenes though. It makes it hard for me to complete them in a reasonable timeframe.
Inside and Limbo are great on theck deck. I’ve very much enjoyed Little Nightmares, although checkpoints are sometimes a littler further apart than I’d like. Currently working through Mass Effect which is great but taking up lots of time. With Bastion on sale for $2.99 that’s another very good one.
