Hi all, with the Steam sale on I’m looking for new things to play on the deck.
I can kick it off with a few recommendations of my own that I’ve been playing, even if they aren’t new games:
Outer Wilds - Amazing exploration game that is best played without looking at any guides etc. I use the 40hz option to play and it runs great, not dropping below 40fps.
Hades - You’ve probably heard of this one! Runs perfectly on the deck, easy to just pick up and attempt a run.
TUNIC - A charming RPG in the vein of the old Zelda games, this one is unique in that you find pages of the ‘Instruction Manual’, which you’ll need to read to help you figure out puzzles within the game. It’s awesome, would highly recommend on the deck!
Let me know what you’re all playing so I can grab some bargains!
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I really recommend Dredge! It only took me three days to beat it but it was fantastic. Fun little fishing game with great atmosphere
Doom, melatonin, and grid are the 3 I’ve grabbed so far. About to go get soul caliber 6 based on another recommendation in this thread though.
For me, the ideal Deck games are ones that don’t lose anything when scaling down to the small screen and APU.
I’ll never understand people playing high visual fidelity games at 30fps on Low settings on Deck, if that person has a more powerful PC to play the game on.
Meanwhile, something like Civilization VI basically loses nothing when played on Deck.
Hades and Tunic both make sense to me as Deck game picks.
I’ll never understand people playing high visual fidelity games at 30fps on Low settings on Deck, if that person has a more powerful PC to play the game on.
I did this with Cyberpunk 2077 despite having an RTX 2080 in my main PC. My reasoning was that I wanted to play from my couch. Now I could have just use the Steam cast feature to play it from my gaming PC, but I didn’t see the point in mucking about with it (especially given that my house has terrible Wifi… I should fix this lol).
You’re right, if you have the PC to play certain games on then the experience is definitely better, but it’s still good to be able to play on the go, or, in my case, I have a 6 week old daughter and I can play the deck while she sleeps in my arms!
Symphony of War is a good Fire Emblem clone. Subnautica is older but plays wonderfully.
I was thinking of picking up FF 7 remake cuz… idk, big sword look cool? also soul caliber 6 cuz its $8
uh, yeah probably just those I think. still dont know if I will commit to it cuz i already have such a back log.
I’m about to go buy soup caliber now, thank you!
I picked up Monster Hunter Rise it’s Steam Deck verified and should run a lot better than MH: World!
Been thinking of picking up MH:R so maybe now is the time.
It’s great, it’s my favorite MH game so far. Great atmosphere and a lot of variation in monsters compared to World. The hunts are also a bit shorter since you know the monsters location from the beginning, and it feels perfect as a mobile game because of it.
RE-engine Resident Evil games and remakes!
I just picked up octopath traveller 2, which seems like a good deck game. I’ve played a bunch of jrpgs on it.
I haven’t actually played it yet though. Still in Diablo 4 (which runs fine on the deck, though it’s annoying to install)
The Souls trilogy is on sale (first time in two years) and all three work great on Deck.
One thing I would caution with them is that Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin (and I believe 1 remastered) don’t have cloud save syncing. If you like playing on your main desktop and your steam deck, you have to manually move the saves over. Looking at the store page, it looks like 3 has the same issue.
Funnily enough, the original DS1 Prepare to Die edition and Dark Souls 2 both have cloud saves
DS1 remastered has cloud saving now. It definitely wasn’t a thing at launch, but I’ve been playing it on my steam deck over the past few days and my saves synced just fine. I think it might’ve been added after they brought back the online servers. I haven’t gotten around to replaying 2/3 since the return of online, but they might have cloud saves too.
Outer wilds will be in the next humble choice bundle fyi
It’s actually Outer Worlds (Obsidian’s Fallout-ish game) and not Outer Wilds (solar system explorer game) that’s coming to this month’s Humble Choice.
I always thought Stardew Valley was like, the perfect game for the Deck.
More recently I’ve been trying to get into Wasteland 3, which is working decently well.
Stardew valley is forever my favorite game at this point. I love the shit out of that little thing.
