Right now, I’m playing the early access version of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m getting ready to put it down (frustrated: BG3 has the potential to be good, but without controller support, I’m getting really frustrated with the UI. ) and switch to Yakuza Like a Dragon.
What are you playing now and what are you looking forward to playing next?
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Usually Indies, a lot of slay the spire recently, but I’ve just started Street Fighter VI.
Tempted by System Shock next cos I never played the original.
The system shock remake is honestly one of the best games of the year, even while being a remake.
So I hear! Hyped.
System shock FTW!🙌
What are some good indies that play fine on the Steam Deck? I’d like to use it more but don’t own many games that are compatible and have “comfortable”, smooth controls. I tried to play some of my favorite games on the Deck and figuring out the controls broke my brain.
Vampire survivors and all the other games in the “bullet heaven” genre play great. Stardew and every farming style top of game plays great. Some deck builders play great. Action games like hollow knight and Steamworld games. Lots of options.
Art of Rally, Nova Drift, Shovel Knight, Celeste, Stanley Parable, Hollow Knight, Project Wingman, Tunic, Katana Zero, Stardew Valley, Vampire Survivors.
I’ve found racing games, walking simulators, and retro style games tend to work well since they are usually designed with controllers in mind. Surprisingly a lot of point and click games work quite well with the track pads.
Disco Elysium. Fantastic writing and pretty hilarious at times.
It’s also pretty good as a portable PC when traveling too, so that’s nice.
Not a steamdeck user but a linux pc gamer so solidarity. Currently playing RE2 and Like a dragon Ishin.
Celeste Strawberry Jam
An absolute masterpiece that runs perfectly on the Deck
Just a note, I migrated my account to lemmy.world
I tried picking up Strawberry Jam but had a hard time getting the mods to run on deck. What’s the secret?
I ended up playing on PC but damn these new levels are difficult.
What particular issues were you getting?
Using Olympus, Everest installed fairly easily. The only tweak I had to do is to turn off FastTextureLoading in the Everest config file.
I think just getting Everest installed properly. It never seemed to run or update correctly.
Steam Deck best tech purchase for me in a long time. Don’t judge me too much but I’ve been playing Disney Speedstorm between TotK sessions.
Vampire Survivors for a while. Lately I just finished up a run through of Pokemon Red and just got started on a run of Pokemon Silver.
Horizon Zero Dawn. Had it on PS4 and didn’t get far. Having a Deck changes everything.
Is gyro aiming feasible on deck? I wanted to try out horizon but it’s clunky on a k+m and aiming on a controller is hard for me.
HZD is the only game I’ve played on deck so far where the gyro aiming works as joystick. I was completely blown away, I’ve never been able to use gyro as anything but as mouse before, and I’ve been doing gyro aiming on steam controller for years.
Diablo 4 for me! Amazing performance, it can even run on Ultra but battery is sucked dry within 45 minutes
Recently: Skyrim yet again, Portal 2
Currently: Horizon Zero Dawn, Wreckfest, Emulators
Next: Probably Cyberpunk. I started it a few months ago, but have been playing Horizon instead.
How do you do with mods for skyrim? Mine would takes up more than half of the disk space (512) and i am worried the mods won’t work as intended because windows and linux works differently when it comes to paths so i haven’t done the switch
Yeah that’s occasionally a problem. Also, the deck isn’t that powerful.
I opted to not do too many visual mods, and instead mostly did convenience, gameplay and items mods.
currently we <3 katamari reroll which is such a perfect fit on the platform it almost hurts
I have it on the Switch and I love it
That’s a great game suggestion!
After religiously following the order number tracking efforts on the Steam Deck subreddit (finally got mine May '22) it’s been my ‘clearing the backlog whilst sitting with the significant other’ device…heavily punctuated with Vampire Survivors and, lately, Diablo 4. It’s a great little roguelike device – stuff like Cult of the Lamb, Spelunky 2, and Rogue Legacy 2 – that I can just play for a few minutes wherever the Heck I’d like.
I still find it like holding black magic. I’m a software engineer, and I understand how it works, but playing a Windows port of a PS4 game (like Horizon) in Linux in my hands is something I don’t think I’ll ever not be impressed by!
I’ve been playing Lone Fungus from the recent metroidvania humble bundle, it’s alright? Takes a lot from other games, Hollow Knight in particular, and mostly doesn’t live up to its inspirations, but is still fun enough. Very easy to binge and it has a bunch of areas/bosses so it’s not really repetitive or slow at all. Like a 6/10 so far, but if you’ve played nearly everything in the genre like I have it’s fun enough
I mostly play older games because I’m a bit of a patient gamer. Here are some I’m playing:
- Yakuza 2 - kinda stalled on it, but it runs fantastically on SD; looking forward to finishing the rest of the series
- Okami HD - not sure if it’s a SD issue or the game is weird, but it controls weird; still having fun with it
- Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - stalled out a bit, but I’ll get back to it
- Nier Replicant - fantastic experience, I’m looking forward to Automata
And games I’m looking forward to:
- Mass Effect Legendary - never played the originals, so it’ll be a treat, but I’m not looking forward to the massive 100GB download
- Alan Wake, Control, and new Alan Wake - haven’t played any, so it’ll be a treat
- Mount & Blade Bannerlord - interested in how the controls will map; I haven’t played this yet, but I have played the original on PC
- tons of smaller indie games - I’ve played a ton and I still have a ton in my library
I’ve actually set my Deck up with a wireless keyboard and mouse and a monitor and spend a lot of time using it in desktop mode. The “real” gaming PC is still around, but it’s a fallback. So I’m arguably playing Beehaw on it right now, but I just alt-tabbed away from Overload to do this. I’ll play Guild Wars 2 on it for a while tomorrow…
I played through Disco Elysium recently and it does surprisingly well for a small screen.
