[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026

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• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Metro Last Light Redux. Better than the first one and looks good.

  It makes me want to read the books.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  My answer is a bit cheating, because its emulation of Playstation 1 via RetroArch. The game is Dark Deception 3: Dark Delusion. It looks good, and the soundtrack is phenomenal. The manual is not needed, because the game teaches with tutorials. If you want, have a look at screenshots to get an idea how the game looks. Overall game seem to be okayish in gameplay, but makes up with an unusual game concept and good soundtrack.

  The game is an Tactical Action Adventure game, with levels to pass. So its more a linear game with stages. Controls are not great, more like tank controls from third person. The idea is to run around, setup traps and attacks and with one of the buttons “use” them at the right time. The character is basically a witch. Bring up the “map” to set traps for the associated button. I’m quite early on, so not sure if I will ever finish this. If you choose to play this game, be aware that there is no autosave and you have to save manually after each stage.

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• afaix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mina the Hollower

  Only 3 hours in so far, the combat is a bit challenging already, and I’m still exploring around the starting city.

  Finding secret areas is as fun as it was in Shovel Knight, music is great, art is gorgeous, the only complaint so far is how you get stuck with the starting weapon and switching it later requires a lot of money

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have horrible news.

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  Ring works perfectly on Linux. Apparently this game is an absolute wanker on Windows. Here it just glugs along gluggingly.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve actually run into several older games that have major issues on Windows but run great on Deck. Many of these require fan patches to fix their windows issues (stuff like increasing how much ram the game can use, etc).

    A recent example was I gave a friend a copy of FEAR, just to discover it ran way worse on his high end PC than it does on my Steam Deck.

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• barkingspiders@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t stop playing Slay The Spire 2, so gooood

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• creativeteo@livellosegreto.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @Fubarberry
  LEGO Batman - Legacy of the Dark Knight

  And

  Poncle’s
  Vampire Crawlers

  💪🏼

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• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just bought Mina, but I just keep on going back to my old comfort game, Binding of Isaac.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is Mina? I’ve heard some mixed takes on it, but it being from the Shovel Knight devs makes me want to jump on it.

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    • Datz@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s alright, certainly high quality, the difficulty curve is kind of wack. Keeping money in the early game is brutal, but it doesn’t take long until the game pulls a 180 and you don’t lose money ever, on top of facetanking half your problems with sheer stats and item effects. Reminds me of phase locket back in SK and how it makes half the bosses trivial.

      I wasn’t impressed by vanilla Shovel Knight and only loved how original and smooth all the DLC were, this feels like going back to SK somehow - even if on paper there’s tons of original ideas here. If you like Shovel of Hope or 2D Zelda (which it sticks to a lot, including the problems) you’ll like this, and if you like both you’ll love this, probably.

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• Elextra@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Slay the spire 2. Still addicted.

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • Nuclear Option + Saitek S52 HOTAS + LookPilot
  • Factorio

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• RunicSword@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been trying to wrap up Trails Of Cold Steel III. I think I’m 80 hours in and near the last chapter.

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• tiberius@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fae Tactics and LOK Digital are the new ones.

  Most likely will not finish either game.

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Slowly rebuilding some of my Switch library on Steam (I prefer my Deck) so I picked up both Cattails games on sale (total of ~$9 atm!) and been replaying those. Very sweet, easy games for a quick dose of fun.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dust, the Twilight princess port, but I just got to the temple of time and am hard crashing every time I put the master sword in. So I’m going to find something else now. Maybe elden ring again?

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mostly replaying older games this month. One new pickup is “Return of the Obra Dinn”, which looks pretty interesting. I think it will be (eventually) a fun puzzle to put together, but I’m not sold on the on-boarding process of being pushed from one memory to another. Kinda feels like the game is dictating the pace early on, and I feel like that could have been handled better. But I’ve heard enough good things about it that I expect I’ll enjoy it a lot by the end.

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  • tiberius@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hope you find it an enjoyable experience. Make sure you play with headphones.

    I found Curse of the Golden Idol gave a similar hit as Return of the Obra Dinn.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I really enjoyed Outer Wilds, and Obra Dinn came up in some recommendations I read based on that. While it’s true that the games share a limitation that you can only play them “properly” one time, they aren’t yet hitting the same itch for me.

      Also grabbed Chants of Sennaar awhile back, which I think may be similar to Obra Dinn.

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