• Lutz
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          To not take 15+ years to release it lol

        • @mr_tyler_durden
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          An actual release and not a shovelware shitty MMO. Look at the release cadence:

          • Arena 1994

          • Daggerfall 1996 (2 years)

          • Morrowind 2002 (6 years)

          • Oblivion 2006 (4 years)

          • Skyrim 2011 (5 years)

          • ??? (12+ years)

    • @PastaRhythm
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      Say what you will about Bethesda and Skyrim, but they must have done something right because people still can’t put it down over a decade later. I do want to play it at some point, but I don’t know when I’ll have that kind of time.

    • @[email protected]
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      My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.

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    Linked is an image of text. It’s bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:

    Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played

    • Baldur’s Gate 3
    • ELDEN RING
    • DAVE THE DIVER
    • Stardew Valley
    • Vampire Survivors
    • Grand Theft Auto V
    • Red Dead Redemption 2
    • Brotato
    • Fallout 4
    • Cyberpunk 2077
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
    • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
    • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
    • ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
    • Hogwarts Legacy
    • Slay the Spire
    • Hades
    • HoloCure - Save the Fans!
    • Remnant II
    • Halls of Torment
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        “top 20 by hours played” doesn’t specify order though, does it? Sure, it’s expected. But not explicit. I guess you expect “20 most played games” otherwise?

      • @[email protected]
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        Thankfully OP linked to an imgur screenshot - I didn’t have to visit the Twitter source.

  • @captainlezbian
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    I just love that binding of Isaac is still doing so well

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      The fact that you can play it with all the infinite goodness from the Workshop is a really strong selling point because it’s thus the only mobile version of Isaac that is actually up to date + modded compared to mobile/console versions.

    • @SillyPuppy
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      I feel like no mater how hard I try to play other games, I’m responsible for like 10% of the hours accrued this month.

  • Uvine_Umarylis
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    There’s my 80+ hours of Stardew Valley in the past week lol

    Making a difference!!!

  • TheMoose
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    Halls of Torment

    A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

    • Leon
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      glad to see it sneaking up on the list here, looking forward to updates

    • @Cold_Brew_Enema
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      I stopped playing after the second stages final boss took no damage. I spent 20 minutes on him and got him 1/4th of the way dead maybe. Ended up just quitting the run.

      • @misterundercoat
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        My answer to problems in Halls of Torment is to use archer crit build. If that doesn’t work, add more crit.

  • @momocchi
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    Amazed to see Holocure on there, pretty good going for a fan project

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    seeing fallout 4 and skyrim still doing so well brings a smile to my face, at the time i genuinely bought a ps4 so i could play them

  • @Ado
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    Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong

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      Set resolution to 900p, turn all settings to low or off (especially Antialiasing and god rays) except for textures at medium and the AMD upscaling to ultra high quality. Enable slow HDD mode if you installed the game to an SD card. Increase text size.

      Runs very smooth for me.

    • @brandon
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      Try turning off FSR in the graphics settings, it looks much better and clearer with it off.

      • chandz05
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        Second this! FSR makes everything blurry in BG3

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      I don’t have it on me but there’s an article with recommended settings and it runs pretty well

    • String
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      I’m playing it on low settings when my deck is connected to a third party dock, with a mouse and keyboard and external monitor and I get about 30fps. it’s not bad

    • GreenAlex
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      Maxing out AA was a big help for me, with there being some weirdness due to the option resetting to off on game restart. I’m not sure I’d that’s been fixed in the latest patch.

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    I’ve been happily adding to Dave the Diver’s numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.

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      It is amazing how every time you think “surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer” it fires off another bonkers event.

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        Yup, never ceases to amaze me! If with no context you’d described to me everything the game throws at you, I’d straight up think it’d never work but, amazingly, it all somehow fits together nicely. Hell, the base roguelite + management sim premise is wild enough on its own lol.
        Very much looking forward to whatever they come up with next!

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    Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old

    • conciselyverbose
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      Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

      If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It’s OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it’s OK to play older games.

      • sarfunkel
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        It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
        -Baldur’s Gate 3
        -Dave the Diver
        -Armored Core 6
        -Holocure
        -Remnant 2

        If I’m counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years

        • conciselyverbose
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          Yeah, I didn’t search. Just did the ones I immediately recognized as recent big budget ones.

        • 10EXP
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          HoloCure is an exception I’d say: It was on itch.io for almost a year before the recent Steam release.

    • @SpacetimeMachine
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      I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn’t expect this list to be filled with new releases.

    • regalia
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      Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.

  • @kadu
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    Surprised to see Brotato so high.

    Not because the game is bad, it’s amazing, I love it on the Deck. But I didn’t know it was that popular and I thought Vampire Survivors had obfuscated it. Glad to see it represented!

  • @FooBarrington
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    It’s been awesome to see the success of Vampire Survivors. Such a technically simple idea that’s so much fun!

    • @hangonasecond
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      Play halls of torment! Really similar vibe, with a different graphical style and gameplay loop. So much fun!!!

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      Really cute and relaxing game. Lots of charm and perfect for the steam deck. In this game youre a dude named Dave, a diver, who catches fish by day and works in a sushi bar by night. I stopped playing zelda totk for this haha.