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.
Diablo and Dave the Diver
Woo Dave the Diver!
Great game for the Deck
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.
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 picked up Shadows of Doubt a month or so ago and it seemed quite juddery (on my PC mind, not the deck). Has the performance improved over time? It really seems like a game I could sink my teeth into but the performance issues made me put it down for now
I know the dev’s current priority is fixing bugs and performance issues, so it may run better now than when you tried it.
It runs acceptably on deck. Inside performance is great but the fps would tank outside. I had to disable a lot of the visual effects and drop the resolution slightly to keep a stable 30 outside. Honestly looks pretty good though even on the lower settings.
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.
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’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.
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 was actually quite impressed with how Blizzard revived D3 with Reaper of Souls and its Item 2.0. They had some really bold and new (for the time) ideas and it worked.
But that was Blizzard of old and I have very little faith that they’re able to pull the same revival off on D4. The campaign was interesting, sort of, but beyond that: an awkward compromise between D2 and D3, and without the panache of either.
I suppose it’s worth playing at least once.
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.
I’m hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend
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.
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
Grim Fandango! The Stream Deck is perfect to finally tackle 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.
Link’s Awakening on my spare time. I’ve also spent several hours modding Skyrim, eager to see how that turns out
Can you please describe how you made Link’s Awakening run on the Deck? Is it the new, remastered version that is currently available for the Switch? I’m interested in getting Twilight Princess for the Deck somehow…
I emulate it using Yuzu. Ryujinx might be an option, but I haven’t tried it because it runs great on Yuzu already. If you’re looking to install several emulators, give Emudeck a try. There are several guides around to get everything ready (don’t rush it!).
Thanks for the pointers! Is there a way to legally obtain ROMs for these games if I don’t own actual physical games? I don’t even know if WII could have games delivered online, or it only used physical cartridges.
You’re asking the wrong person :)
I would think there is no way for Wii games without physically owning them.
Stardew valley, mini motorways, Mario kart 8 and subnautica.
Track mania. It’s a little addictive. Though I’m not good enough to participate in the online events, yet.
Sacred RPG black edition, finding the community keyboard layout surprisingly easy to use, I’m almost ready to say I wish the keyboard would go to the touchpads in game instead of bringing up the keyboard overlay to enter text.
Inscryption, but I’m not sure how much more I can inflict on myself, starting over continually is just so frustrating, especially when the early game options are so few and I can easily see a loss coming.
One of these days I’ll get around up red dead redemption 2 or the Witcher 3, I’ve got about an hour into both of them.
Mini metro and mini motorways, as well as dwarf romantik, such great ways to lull into slumber.
I recently went full m+kb and have been playing 4x games, age of wonders 3, civ 5 and 6, and Warhammer Total war 2, they all run great on the deck!
I’d highly suggest sticking with Inscryption, it’s very worth the investment. You can explore the room as well, and get more cards from solving puzzles in the room.
I really wish the devs copied the controller scheme from the PlayStation version into the steam version.
Mini motorways controls are so comfortable it spoilt Mini metro (on the Deck) for me :(
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
