What are your favourite casual games on the steam deck?

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• im_mr_clean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Deep Rock Galactic, I play it exclusively on single player with the little robot buddy. On easier modes it’s pretty chill and pauses well if you need to stop in the middle of a mission.

  Sable is just a relaxing exploration game. No real combat, just riding through a desert on a hover bike. Cool art style.

  Inscryption is a creepy deck builder, with some wild turns. Don’t look up much or spoilers abound.

  Moonring is a free old school rpg. Graphics are classic but the game is a great throwback with some modern gameplay.

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  • skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for reminding me to get back into Inscryption. I thought that game was neat but dropped it for something else before I learned it has like five acts.

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  • Deregon@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sable always had a tendency to make the Deck heat up like crazy and burn through battery in no time, but otherwise it’s a great game to play in bed 😁

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• epoch@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dave the Diver for sure

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  • rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, Dave is amazing. It is one of those games that “tries too hard be too many different games at once and ends up a mess”, except Dave pulls it off.

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• nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If casual means relaxed to you, factorio. Their new controller integration is great. But be careful, it’s highly addictive.

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  • cron@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, I love (and own) factorio. But I never tried it on the deck, because I did not think that it would play well with a controller. But I will give it a try. Thank you

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    • morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Be sure to check community control layouts, and not just the default.

      I’ve had several games I thought would be terrible on a controller, only to discover someone had invented an ingenious and intuitive layout already.

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  • mordack550@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How new is it? I’ve tried it a couple of months ago, and while it seems good, it was still too clunky

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• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Peglin and Dome Keeper are pretty great.

  Also Rogue Legacy 2 if that’s your kind of thing.

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  • Denisleary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Peglin has been my go-to for a while now.

    If you could imagine slay the spire rogue like mechanics in a pachinko machine that’s Peglin.

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• cron@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I really enjoyed both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Beautiful 2D platformer with great soundtrack. Find the bundle on Steam

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The second Ori is one of the absolute most powerful storylines I’ve ever experienced in a game. I can’t believe how good it was, especially because the first game had a very light story

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• rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s nothing more casual than “Placid Plastic Duck Simulator”. Okay, it’s really more of a screensaver.

  Sunshine Heavy Industries is “stick together legos to build cool looking ships”.

  Toem is a great little easter egg hunt with your camera.

  Rain On Your Parade is a dreadfully cute “you are a cloud and you cause problems” campaign.

  Unpacking, Hardspace and more are in a Humble bundle right now, heard good things about them

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  • DontWorryItsClean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With great suggestions like Hardspace, Unpacking, and Rain on your parade, I need to check out some of these others. Hardspace is on my Mt Rushmore of smaller games.

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• rike@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Lego games! Perform well on the deck, are often on sales and cover many different franchises. The games aren’t difficult, but there’s plenty to do and explore and a good bit of humor. Currently playing through the Skywalker Saga, super easy to pick up and just explore

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• soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That solely depends on the question what you consider “Casual”. I’ll go with the definition “a game that doesn’t need a significant time investment per play-session”.

  • Super Hexagon: Amazing music, simple game, but challenging.
  • Triptych: Tetris with soft body physics. The game is great, the sound a bit annoying. Also, I don’t think it’s available on Steam, so it needs manual installation (and input bindings).
  • Cultist Simulator: While the game is very obscure, it doesn’t require a lot of time per session - you can start it, play 5 minutes, and exit it again.
  • Hades: It’s a Roguelite. You die. A lot. That’s why each session can be rather short.
  • Loop Hero: It’s not as “casual” as the others, as it takes some time for each run, but not too much.

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• GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Binding of Isacc: Afterbirth+ feels like it was made for the deck.

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• lemmyng@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Noita, Slay the Spire, Children of Morta, Brotato…

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  • deo@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you for reminding me about Children of Morta… I wonder which shiny new game i got that made me forget to finish it…

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• brodoshmodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Risk of rain returns just dropped, that’s going to have a permanent home on my deck’s ssd

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• FawkesGil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like to play roguelites, adventure games, and side scrollers when Im out. So I’d recommend Wizard of Legend, Lunistice, A Hat In Time, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and Hi-Fi Rush.

  All of these games are less than 20 Gb, and they’re great on the deck. Hopefully they go on sale soon for you.

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use the Heroic Games app to play my GoG and Epic Games library.

  Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion was free last week so I’m playing that and it’s cute/fun.

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• Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Goat Simulator is always fun

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• MJBrune@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Peglin was incredibly fun on the Steam Deck.

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• shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lil Gator Game for a pretty short (maybe 4ish hours), VERY cute love letter to growing up and Zelda. 3D adventure sort of platformer I suppose, not dissimilar to A Short Hike

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• kugmo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wedding Witch

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• Lolors17@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ULTRAKILL, Halo MCC Multiplayer and Super Hexagon.

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  • Rainskull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How can you play Ultrakill with a controller?? I legitimately have no idea how that’s possible

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    • Lolors17@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have to turn on the assist thingy in the settings. And with a custom deck layout it becomes really enjoyable.

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• code@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Having slot of fun with cocoon right now

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  • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven't heard of it yet but I'm going to assume it's based on the 1980s movie.

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is. You play as Wilford Brimley battling Diabetes.

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• JowlesMcGee@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I've heard good things about Cozy Grove, though I haven't played it yet. Seems like a good Steam Deck game

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