Comment on What "Great on Deck" titles have you been enjoying?
swordsmanluke@programming.dev 7 months ago
I do a surprisingly large amount of my gaming on the steam deck these days. My poor PC lies abandoned. Anyway… here are some great games that I’ve played recently on the deck. Some of them are Yellow - usually to use the keyboard for something minor.
- Dead Cells: Roguelite action platformer
- Tekken 8: best entry in years
- Beneath Oresa: wildly stylish roguelite deck-builder
- Roguebook: another roguelite deck builder - by Richard Garfield.
- Talos Principle 2: Puzzles and Philosophy
- Chants of Sennar: explore a mysterious tower and learn the languages - and lost history - of the inhabitants.
- Doom & Doom Eternal: you know these
- Tunic: Zelda Classic - but with deep puzzles
- Inscryption: deck-building horror puzzler… that is soooo much deeper than what it seems.
A final, hesitant recommendation for
- Dome Keeper: Roguelike Mr. Driller meets Paratrooper, with a tight one-more-run game play loop that is insanely satisfying.
But… the menus don’t work right for me in docked play - the A button is only randomly accepted. … but it works fine in handheld mode. (The controls work fine in-game as well, it’s only menus that have trouble.)
weston@techhub.social 7 months ago
@swordsmanluke @steamdeck Having a gaming PC in the house is still useful for me. I use it to remote play games that don’t run great on the steam deck or eat too much battery. Like Starfield or Baldurs gate 3. Only issue is there is currently a gamma bug in remote play making everything dark. I hope valve fixes it soon.
swordsmanluke@programming.dev 7 months ago
I’ve streamed a few games but I’m on wifi and it’s… fine? Like it works better than it has any right to, but anything that requires fast inputs has been iffy.
Even BG3 I generally preferred playing on the actual hardware instead of streaming.