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Best of Steam 2024 - the top performing games on steam, including best sellers on Steam Deck

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/bestof2024?tab=6

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty much the same titles over and over again.

    I’ll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.

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    • cRazi_man@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agree. AAA titles aren’t suited to run on a Deck and should be streamed from a PC with remote play…but I this k this is the appeal of having the games in a portable format, that people are willing to put up with such shit performance.

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      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It really depends on the specific game, many older AAA games or non-unreal games run fine.

        It’s also interesting seeing how some games run much better now than they did on release. CP2077 (non-dlc parts) runs pretty well now for example, much better than it did when the Deck first came out.

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      • Ok_imagination@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I thought elden ring ran beautifully. Is bg3 that rough on deck?

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    • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t say I’ve ever cared about how a game looks.* Sure maybe it’s worth discussing, but it’s always the last thing on my list.

      I played BG3 (Once, all the way, second time up to act 2) exclusively on my Steam Deck in handheld mode. Sure Act 3 has a little bit of lag, but nothing that ever bothered me. All the characters in the game were unique, I know Gale from Karlach from Lae’zel.

      *(Discussion about art style or artistic choice being different, Pixel vs cell-shaded vs realistic etc)

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t say I’ve ever cared about how a game looks.

        Fair enough. Certainly some devs spend a ton of time making games look incredible so there’s obviously a bunch of users like me who do appreciate that, and also many who don’t!

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    • twistypencil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love potatoes, also BG3 works fine on the deck?

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Define “fine”. Is it playable? Sure. But it also looks quite bad at 800p/low/30fps

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The default settings look pretty bad, but with some setting changes you can get it to look a lot better without sacrificing too much performance.

      It’s not really the type of game that has to run at a solid 60 FPS or anything.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s fascinating how the “top selling” that is measured by “gross revenue” has so many “free to play” games on the top. ahhh the aggressive gambling tactics

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    • MyCodeZero@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Warframe is there and everything in the game can be unlocked for free, its a grindy looter shooter that rose against the odds and is a shining examplen of f2p, the story is like 11/10, it is on another level

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        a game can be good and have predatory gambling mechanics inside of it. in fact making a game people want to play more of, enables those mechanics to work on a larger number of people

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  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wish they’d make a list sorted by units sold.

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    • orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And one with average hours played per player

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Weighted by time to finish (somehow) so short games aren’t penalized.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really dislike the way they hide the original prices on Steam now.

    I think it even goes against some consumer rules here in Europe.

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    • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh? What do you mean? For me it looks like this (am in the EU tho):

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      • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

        Here’s a better view: imgur.com/a/ndBfWLy

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    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, this is pro-consumer. Showing the original price and the “X% off!” sign is price anchoring designed to make you think you’re getting a great deal and to make you feel urgency to buy it now. It’s why we all have such giant collections of unplayed games.

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