What are great games to play on controller, that my PC would stream to my Steam Deck?

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Weird question probably but here goes :

I’m discovering the joy of having a Dock, it’s great!

But what’s even better is I can just get my PC to stream more powerful games to my Deck (that the Deck would otherwise struggle with)

It works flawlessly (zero input delay, or rather not noticeable), better than Steam Link / Remote Play (I get input delay on this), and I haven’t tried Moonlight

It’s also so much more convenient than moving my PC to the living room (where the TV is) and plugging it there!

So I’m like wow Order of the Sinking Star is awesome, but what if I played games that my Deck sometimes has trouble with? Like I could run Witcher 3 Remastered with some better settings!

So I guess I’m not asking for great Steam Deck games, it’s more like, what are games that my PC could run that feel great on controller, that I would stream to my Docked Deck?

Thanks!!

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Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Here’s a suggestion that doesn’t even begin to address your question, have you considered a long HDMI cable to connect your TV in your lounge to your PC directly? Best of both worlds, comfortable seat in front of the TV, no input delay, play anything your PC can handle without middlemaning through the deck.

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- inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No that’s a great idea, and I agree that would be ideal ; the only problem is that the layout of the place doesn’t really work, lemme do a quick floor plan on paint
  
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  idk if attaching an hdmi cable to the ceiling would work
  
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  - CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hello I do not have answers for you, I just want to say I find your illustrations delightful
    
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  - confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Could you swap the tv and seating so the tv is on the same wall as computer?
    
    The cat 5e / cat 6 hdmi adapters are incredibly cool! If you can run above, below, or around this would be a great solution too.
    (Please don’t run wiring under carpet for everyone’s safety).
    
    *Yes, I know HDMI is low voltage, but I’d rather people takeaway the “don’t do this” vs. the nuanced risk.
    
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  - JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t think anyone has mentioned this but HDMI is just Cat-6 with a fancy hat. You can run cat-6 cabling through your attic, down the walls, etc., as if you were setting up a standard Ethernet run. Then, slap some rj-45 to hdmi adapters on each, and voila! Or you could just put proper hdmi heads on the cables and skip the adapters.
    
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  - steelplatedmech@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Fiber optic hdmi cable works well over long ranges. Do secure cable I just got some cheap plastic clips with adhesive, since I didn’t feel like drilling holes.
    
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  - guycls@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you are in US, you can buy a 48gbps 50 meter fiber hdmi for 200 bucks, and run it along the bottom of walls from pc to tv and put some masking tape on it.
    
    a.co/d/0j6wplnq
    
    Expensive, but would work nicely. There would still be question of wireless controller working since there’s a wall b/w tv & pc.
    
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  - DekSomBoon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you measure it and it is less than 10m (the physical limit of hdmi without a repeater) then you might consider a floor cable canal. They usually come in a variety of colors, don’t require adheisive or screwing and are just simple things to keep people from tripping on cables
    
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    I have one of these on a doorway, to connect a pc to a tv and it works good enough
    
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  - wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Have you considered a projector? Just saying, I’ve got one recently, and your floor plan seems ideal for that. Also, as a bonus point, you may have a much bigger screen, for fully immersive experience.
    
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  - lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    oof, 10m is the limit of what hdmi can do without degrading. you’d need a repeater.your current setup is probably better unless moving the pc to the tv is an option.
    
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- ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Wouldn’t you also need some kind of dongle for the controller to have a good connection?
  
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cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I was in your position. I have to say the ideal solution has been: I just put Bazzite on my PC and moved it to the lounge as a console PC. No streaming required.

If you’re a first person shooter pro then you might want the PC at the desk for KB+M control. Otherwise for other games (like strategy games) it is better to stream from lounge to PC for those few games and have the native PC experience with the TV.

I mostly use my desk PC for work, and any cheap old PC can do this. I got a basic mini PC workstation pretty cheap, and this OS actually good enough to play most indie and emulated games natively at 144 FPS anyway. Something even older and cheaper would be perfectly fine for my workstation needs.

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Schal330@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I streamed Expedition 33 to my deck when it was my shift during the night to look after our newborn whilst they were sleeping.

Honestly can’t remember much of it since that period of time was a blur, but what I do know is the streaming worked great, although I had to change a couple of settings as games would sometimes freeze. I think it was something to do with the encoding and decoding, so you may have to look at that if you have the same issue.

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DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Vampire Survivors

Slay the Spire

Children of Morta

Dead Cells

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thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Steam has a list of games that are “Controller Friendly”. I mean the Library view in Steam client, next to “All Games” list. On your Steam Deck it lists games that are verified for Steam Deck, but on PC client it lists games that are Controller friendly in general.

You can create a custom Collection for that too, a list that is available on all systems you log in. Go to “All Games” view, click “Fliter” (or X button), scroll down to “Hardware support” and enable filter “Full Controller Support”. Scroll down and click “Save as Dynamic Collection”. Name it and save it. Now this is a dymanic collection, which means it will automatically expand with new added games that fit this criteria. I would say all games from this list should fit your requirement and use case of being playable with a gamepad.

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- inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh very cool, I’ll check the games in there, thank you for the tip!!
  
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halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Megabonk

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Asetru@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I don’t play much, but if I do I pretty much exclusively use the deck or a controller… I don’t think there are many games that don’t support controllers, so I guess you could just check your favourite ones and see if they work well?

Games that I enjoyed on the couch more than on mobile or on the PC:

tetris connected. It’s tetris, all right, but with lights and sound! Works so much better on a large screen and a sound sound system.

redout (2). It’s a fast antigrav racer, bit like wip3out. Music of the first and sind effects and graphics of the second just work better in a home theater. Two stick controls are awesome.

hellblade, if you have a surround sound system.

Apart from that, there are the usual suspects: 3rd person console ports (horizon, Batman etc) or couch coop games if you have some friends over (Bumerang fu, lovers in a dangerous space time etc).
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Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Currently using sunshine/moonlight to my Rog Ally for Dawnwalker. I also use my Xbox with moonlight to stream occasionally. Just about any Unreal engine game runs rough on handhelds due to stuttering, so I use my desktop and stream it. The vast majority of the games I play work great with a controller.

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RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
In my time I have found that as long as the game isn’t terrible controls, and isn’t extremely latency dependent (you could try enabling Pyrowave codec in steams streaming or try Sunshine to bypass steams streaming) then the real limitation is being able to see the menus from the couch! Lots of modern games get this right, especially if they already have console ports, but sometimes you just can’t read the stinking menus!

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BigUwU@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This was the exact set up I used to play Death Stranding 2

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lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
weeeell… what games do you want to play?

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- inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Honestly lately I’ve been feeling like playing racing games, but mostly I’m interested in games that are enjoyable on a controller, I’ve always played on a PC so it’s kind of “new” to me, I like how I can game on a more relaxed position in the couch
  
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  - DekSomBoon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you don’t mind getting games outside of steam and tinkering, Need For Speed Underground 2 is my favorite racing game. There are different types of races, deep car tuning/customization and a decent world to openly drive around in. And a banging soundtrack too.
    
    I haven’t played it, but I have wishlisted Sonic racing CrossWorlds because apparently it is a great alternative to Mario Kart, with local co-op.
    
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  - lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    …ever played outer wilds?
    
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