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Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get?

Durandal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Not a game recommendation specifically but a money extending protip.

Head over to ITAD and make an account. Then you can get notifications when all the games you’re interested in go on sales from legit resellers (including steam itself). As well as when there’s free games to be had. isthereanydeal.com

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Bongles@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah that sites great, you can set thresholds for each game if you want to wait until it’s over 50% off or whatever before getting notified. It also imports your steam wishlist.

Edit: also… if you collect the weekly freebies from epic games you can install heroic games launcher on the steam deck to play those.

True, though you don’t get the existing cloud saves so if you’ve started a game already it’s a little annoying.

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- Durandal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  It also imports your steam wishlist
  
  Can also directly import from gog, hb, and fanatical. EGS is on the todo list also once they have an api or even just a public facing library. All this time and egs is still pretty bare bones on features.
  
  True, though you don’t get the existing cloud saves so if you’ve started a game already it’s a little annoying.
  
  That’s annoying. I wonder how hard it would be to just copy or use some kind of sync to move the files yourself.
  
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Grimpen@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Second installing Heroic or Junk Store. Get those Epic freebies, but games in GoG sales as well.

As you are new with the Deck though, using Heroic does involve using desktop mode. If you have Minecraft, you can set up Prism Launcher as well. There’s also EmuDeck for emulating older systems.

This is a bit more involved than just buying Deck verified games on the Steam store though. Get comfortable with it first. Watch some YouTube tutorials.

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