Colin McRae Rally 04 - I finally set it up on my deck 2 or so weeks ago and that has been my main game on the device since then. It required a little bit of control tweaking but other than that it runs and plays great.
Awesome battery life too though that’s to be expected with such an old game.
[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - August 2025
Submitted 3 days ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How is that one compared to other rally games? I have a copy but haven’t gone through the trouble to figure out the install. With regards to comparisons, I currently have:
- WRC 4, 7, 10, Generations
- Sebastian Loeb Rally Evo
- V-Rally 4
- Old School Rally
- Rush Rally Origins and RR3
- Dirt Rally and DR 2.0
- RSF Richard Burns Rally (haven’t tested this on the deck)
I’ve really enjoyed WRC 7 and 10 on the Deck. 4 is decent but kind of arcade, very easy. Sebastian Loeb Rally should be sim, but the physics are a bit wonky. And V-Rally 4 is sort of simcade, leaning arcade, but rather fun.
Most of these, orther than WRC 4 can be a bit hard on the battery, so something that looks and plays well without being a battery hog would be nice.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I haven’t played most of the games on your list (either at all or in a while), doubly so on the Deck, so my perspective is a bit limited. Sorry.
CMR04 is on the simcade side of things. Definitely more realistic than Old School Rally, should be relatively close to Rush Rally 3 or Richard Burns Rally (maybe slightly less realistic than those). I think Codemasters found a nice middle ground in terms of driving model with this game. It’s definitely one of the best rally games from that era at least.
In terms of battery life, I’m able to squeeze between 5 and 6 hours on full charge with this one.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I have been having a lot of fun going Toxicarl runs with nanny paws in Dungeon Clawler, sl I’m probably gonna continue doing that.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
A little Final Fantasy Tactics, No Man’s Sky, as always, but mostly it has been BitCraft Online. I have not found a great controller setup for it, but it plays great with keyboard and trackball.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
XWVM. It’s awesome! I finally destroyed the Death Star for the first time without using cheats.
Frog Detective is next on my list.
F04118F@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Oooh that’s awesome! I’ve seen it and am?thoroughly impressed but haven’t dared to try it on Linux yet, let alone on the Deck.
Could you write a blog or a post here of how to get it to work on plain SteamOS?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
Could you write a blog or a post here of how to get it to work on plain SteamOS?
No, don’t have the energy. And it’s honestly trivial. Download and extract. Add binary to Steam if you want to play it in game mode. Then just show it where you have the game data of the original game.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I’ve been playing Nightreign with friends, mostly using the seamless coop mod to allow 2 players. The game just updated with to allow 2 players natively, so we’ll have to decide if we want to keep using the mod for the rare times when we have 4 people. Overall it’s been really fun, I’ve enjoyed it a lot.
tsl@lemmy.stefanoprenna.com 2 days ago
Having a lot of fun with Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands! Works very well on the Deck!
cron@feddit.org 2 days ago
Descenders. Than fun bicycle game was just on sale for 5 bucks and offers plenty of content.
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. It’s testing my thumbs, but it’s really good so far. Beautiful pixel art and animation, too.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Fields of Mistria.
Just finished up “Last Time I Saw You”, ehh I think it’s the weak one in the “Until Then & Space For The Unbound” untrilogy.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 2 days ago
Coral Island
Feels a bit like a more grown up version of the whole farm / lifesim genre games. Though I don’t think they did anything new or groundbreaking it’s a very solid game, very wholesome and it’s not giving away stuff for free so it doesn’t feel too easy.
Dune features feel thoughtful and like they came either directly from the audience or they at least listened to what people annoyed in other titles.
F04118F@feddit.nl 2 days ago
I finished Crysis and Crysis: Warhead. Crysis took the c1launcher mod to start, Warhead just needed the env vars.
Hope I’ll have the energy to dive back into Death Stranding soon. If not, I’ll have another shot at MGS1. Last time I got to the sniper duel (on my phone with RetroArch and an old Xbox controller) and then when I got my Deck, the save refused to load. Been long enough that I wouldn’t mind starting over.
I never played the original MGS series, first I got into it was MGS: Peace Walker on PSP, absolutely loved it, got hundreds of hours in it, then did a bit of MGS V but never finished that either.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m in the middle of Ikenfell (nearing the end I think). Dabbling a bit with Aim for the Ace!(Ace o Nerae!) for the SNES. Holy crap, the graphics on this one are mind blowing for a SNES game, an actual 3D camera that follows the ball.
Also still in the middle of Armored Core 3 but sidelined it for now, can only play so many games at once and I’m stuck on a mission that annoys the hell out of me (the one where you unlock the Karasawa).
Outside of the Steam Deck, wife and I have been enjoying Across the Obelisk and WH40k: Rogue Trader.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Recently it’s been AutoRogue
strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Look Mum no Computer - It’s a truly crazy game described as a Twin-stick shooter ARPG, and I guess that’s right, but the coolest thing is that the music is controlled by your own gameplay and equipment, the devs even included an in-gane synthesizer.
Reminds me of the old Spectrum games from bedroom programmers.