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• macisr@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fucking skyrim never dies!

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  • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It never will until a new elder scrolls comes out.

    I don’t know whether Bethesda’s Starfield will do well or not but I do know they’re absolute morons to not feed the hungry demand for an elder scrolls sequel.

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    • Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are already working on it what more do you want?

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    • Pointy_Dorito@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe not even then. Modders have made Skyrim better then Bethesda could ever make another game.

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  • poppy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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  • PastaRhythm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, it was a really fun game. They did a great job with it. In fact, I’ve been itching to play it again.

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• Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • poppy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At the bottom it does say “…by hours played” indicating it’s in ranked order.

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    • Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “top 20 by hours played” doesn’t specify order though, does it?

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  • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    thank you. no way im going on twitter even for a second.

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    • Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thankfully OP linked to an imgur screenshot - I didn’t have to visit the Twitter source.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    900 FRUSTRATING hours of my life that I’m never gonna get back

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    • Citronnier@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      1300 hours of fun and 300 hours of Repentance

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• Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  Making a difference!!!

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  • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    80 hours in a week?

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    • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Stardew is a full time job

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    • Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Company I worked for committed seppuku, figured I’d find a way to relax

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• OhTheMoose@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Halls of Torment

  A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

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  • Leon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • sim_@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m surprised too! Feels like this game came out of nowhere and still has lots of room to grow, good for the devs.

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  • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • misterundercoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• censor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  shoutout to all the brotato mains

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Old is gold

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• momocchi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• brokenlcd@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • Underwear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same with The Witcher

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• Gleddified@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sarfunkel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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  • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the Steam Deck. Older games are gonna run better.

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  • regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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• Ado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Turn off FSR. I’ve got 30 hours into it and prefer it on deck over PC.

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  • brandon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • chandz05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Second this! FSR makes everything blurry in BG3

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  • sfcl33t@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • sm1dger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      rockpapershotgun.com/baldurs-gate-3-system-requir…

      Launcher option: DirectX 11
      Model quality: Low
      Texture filtering: Trilinear
      Shadow quality: Low
      Fog quality: Low
      Ambient occlusion: Off
      Everything else: Ultra preset equivalents
      

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  • GreenAlex@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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• lupec@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • lupec@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 roguelike + 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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• Overzeetop@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.

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• leif@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Glad to see Stardew Valley in the list 😊

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• littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  WTF is Dave the Diver?

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  • suckaduck@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Zoop@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m wondering the same about that and about whatever the heck is called “Brotato!” Do you play as a potato? I’m intrigued

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• kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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!

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• DeskP1loti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brotato kicks ass

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  • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fr it’s super underrated. Probably my favorite Vampire Survivors type game.

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• CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m really surprised to see Baldurs Gate 3 so high, as I’ve heard it doesn’t run too well on Deck.

  I’ve been playing it nonstop on my pc, but don’t want to spend time downloading it on the Deck if it doesn’t run well and devours my battery. Is it better than I’ve been hearing?

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  • brandon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I play it pretty much exclusively on my Deck and haven’t run into any performance issues that have bothered me and patch 2 made things noticeably smoother. I haven’t hit act 3 yet though and that seems to be where most people have problems in general.

    Turning off FSR is a must if you don’t want a blurry mess.

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  • Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same with cyberpunk, people can play it on steam deck? I dont think i can play FPS games there at all, less alone on a small screen with 30 fps (at best)

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    • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, Cyberpunk runs well. 30 to 40 in my experience, the real issue is the fucking tiny text that can be barely big enough to be readable, that red font isn’t helping either. I think my time with it is split roughly in half between my desktop and Deck. You do need to try find good settings, but I mean it’s a handheld so some effort is required.

      Baldur’s Gate I also play on either system, but I get the bit about it being blurry. I took a fair amount of time figuring out how to get rid of it, I can go grab a screenshot or two with my settings if anyone wants them. It keeps at 30 more or less reliably… but it’s important to mention I’m still in act 1. The super weird part is how for some reason it’s less buggy on the Deck! Very puzzling. On the desktop it seems to leak memory and that ends up in horrible stuttering, then with some bad luck it can stop accepting inputs aside from menu stuff and movement, and this one seems to be fixable by loading the save on the Deck.

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    • BobVersionFour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I play it with a keyboard and mouse using my dock work fine mostly no lag otherwise to small a screen for me for that kind of game

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I play it on the Deck and it runs very well for me, that was actually how I played exclusively for the first few weeks. I only ran into problems when trying to do cross-play, as saving between the two is apparently the shittiest experience ever and I just gave up on it. Now I have an exclusively PC playthrough (good-aligned) and Deck playthrough (evil-aligned). The control scheme takes some getting used to, but it’s still really good.

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    • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cross-save seems to work better now, at least it doesn’t sit there trying to sync forever for me.

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  • Ado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just posted my shock too before seeing this comment. I really don’t see how it would work, my game runs so blurry on the deck

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  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Surprises me as well. I did briefly try it out on Deck but it seemed that my options were either very blurry or very laggy graphics. But still playable I guess if Steam Deck is your only option.

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    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I had the blurinnes only if i enabled TAA, no problems with SMAA, but it still sucks the battery dry and frame rate in act3 was not good. If combat wasnt turn based i’d would not play it on the deck.

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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly I know the Deck can run recent and current AAA titles but I generally have had just as much fun playing low-demand games like Stardew, Dead Cells, Caveblazers, etc.

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• ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gotta assume those BG3 Steam Deck numbers are gonna tank as people get into acts 2 and 3. Act 1 runs quite well on deck, but no amount of low settings or disabled features provides an acceptable level of performance.

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• spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All these games suck

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• mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does anyone else have Halls of Tournament regularly crash on their steam deck normally when they’ve got about five minutes or less in a run? It’s like 30-50% of the time for me.

  I love the game but the crashing (and loss of progress) sucks. I need to pick up Vampire Survivors since I know it’s similar and look fun.

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• Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is elden ring's performance on steam deck?

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• RileyIsBad@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I probably contribute like half the hours Fallout 4 is getting, once you go through the pain of getting modding working how you want, it’s so easy to sink another hundred or so hours into it.

  Lil Steamie Decky is hauling ass with 200 plugins just fine (assuming you don’t mind cranking everything to low settings, but you won’t notice it much on the display)

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• MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m impressed that Cyberpunk is in the top 10 considering how much flack that game caught.

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• luckyhunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been tough with the idea of getting one of these but I like strategy games like HOI4, factorio, rimworld. Anyone have any experience with them on the Deck?

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• Hailstorm8440@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This reminds me of the gave break so video with the steam deck

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