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?
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.
Horizon Zero Dawn. Had it on PS4 and didn’t get far. Having a Deck changes everything.
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.
I have 400 steam games, a Series X, a PS5, a Switch OLED, a gaming PC, but I spend most of my time playing Brotato on my Steam Deck.
LOL!
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
That’s been my impression of it as well. I’m also playing Haiku and Blasphemous from the same bundle
Man I love blasphemous, its such a masterpiece imo
currently we <3 katamari reroll which is such a perfect fit on the platform it almost hurts
That’s a great game suggestion!
I have it on the Switch and I love it
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.
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.
Yeah! It’s such a perfect device. So easy to stuff it in a backpack and just bring it out whenever. It’s honestly everything I’ve ever wanted the switch to be
I’ve been playing Diablo IV since it came out! Runs surprisingly well.
Just got Tony Hawk 1+2. Is literally perfect for the Deck!
It’s a quality remake. I wish every remake was that good.
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.
Right now I’m playing Horizon Zero dawn. runs beautifully. very occasionally crashes but otherwise great.
Man I just finished that game on PC. Beautiful game, though imo the dialogue animations aren’t the best lol. Have you played the sequel?
yes! I bought it when it went on sale some weeks ago and I’ve been enjoying it immensely on the deck. I’ve noticed the crashes reduced dramatically when I stopped putting the deck to sleep with HZD still running. It seems to still crash rarely when I go to the “manual save” screen if I play it for hours on end, but closing and reopening the game every now and then during long play sessions seems to have helped a lot.
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 Spiritfarer and Forza Horizon 4 on mine as of late.
I’ve just beaten Control, it’s pretty weird, but still a fun game. Worked on the deck without any issues and configuration. Next I’ll play Horizon Zero Dawn.
I love the world Control built. The architecture, the feeling of it being some weird mix of Stephen King and Twin Peaks, how it didn’t hold my hand in figuring anything out.
What an atmosphere!
That one part, with the music, with the Walkman (you know what I’m talking about) is one of the top emotional moments in gaming history for me!
Have you played the “predecessor” game that sort of exists in the same universe, “Alan Wake”? Also runs perfectly on the Deck and I quite enjoyed it. It’s weird as hell.
I’ve heard about it before, but had no idea that these two games are from the same universe! I’ll add it to my backlog.
I won’t drop any spoilers because it’s a wild ride, but there is one obvious overlap (not in a main plotline or anything) that’ll make you chuckle.
