Currently playing Mindustry, a factory management tower defense game. Very addicting. It’s free on flathub
[Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Steam Deck? - May 2024
Submitted 7 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
TheLongPrice@lemmy.one 7 months ago
+1, would recommend for fans of Factorio or shapez
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Are you playing it with the onboard controls? Do you have any recommendations for making it feel better?
I want to get into Mindustry but the basic movement controls of the ship just don’t feel inspired to me in the base game at least with the starting ship. I mean it makes sense, the focus is more on tower defense and automation, but is there a modpack or something that focuses the gameplay a bit more on the ship movement and combat?
Do you have any other advice for playing Mindustry on the Steam Deck? Which kinds of levels are best to start with and what kind of control scheme do you like?
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I play with the built in controls, I use a slightly modified version of the mouse profile. I constantly switch between touch screen and trackpad control and I personally don’t have a problem with it.
I don’t think there are any mods that revamp the ship. The ship isn’t really that important for the game. In the mobile version the ship just flies on its own
I personally would start with planet erekir, it focuses less on defense and more on producing and commanding troops. Also I really recommend pvp.
nezach@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Hades 2
pezhore@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
After beating Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, I decided to revisit the previous game, Yakuza: Like A Dragon. I first tried playing YLAD a few years ago on my gaming PC, but the incredibly long, unskippable cut scenes were super frustrating. Infinite Wealth had some of that same problem, but the story clicked with me a bit more and I’ve fallen in love with the mix of heartfelt quirky gameplay.
Plus, the Steam Deck makes the long cut scenes way easier to deal with when you can just pause and sleep your console if you need a break.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah, I know YLAD has a stretch of fights/boss fight/cutscenes that took nearly 2 hours without being able to save. The deck being able to sleep mid gameplay is the only reason I was able to make it through. YLAD cutscenes are also super sensitive to instability from undervolting, I kept having cutscenes freeze for me but it turns out that I needed to reduce my undervolting setting a little.
Great games though, I recommend them both.
saintshenanigans@programming.dev 7 months ago
Everyone always says balatro and i finally got it on sale and now i can’t stop
twistypencil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I kept reading people say this, and then I ended up buying brotato, I don’t know if it was a mistake or not
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Did it have a good sale? I’ve been waiting for a sale (or the mobile version) myself.
saintshenanigans@programming.dev 7 months ago
Oh, its only 10% off right now
Tbh i didn’t even look how high the discount was, i knew i wanted the game and it was 13$ so i just went for it lol
stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I’m just getting to the end of the Dragonborn DLC before returning to continue my first run through Skyrim.
dditty@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nice - are you playing with Mods?
stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I didn’t know you could use mods on the steam deck. Are there any that make sorting through your inventory easier?
HomelessAvatar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Currently started playing Kingdom Come Deliverance. Still trying out some graphics settings, but so far a good experience.
DrCake@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How does it play on the steam deck? Played it on PC and loved it but never completed the story. With 2 announced I’d love to jump back in
Tenkard@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Loved it! I’ll have to play it again since I bought all the dlcs. I think they recently announced kingdom come 2 so I’m pretty hyped
Xyloph@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Heard mixed things about Fallout 4 new update for the deck. Drcided to try it out with the default settings. Happy to report that it works great, I’m getting stable 60 (at least up to Concord) and it looks nice.
Klordok@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Steam World: Heist. Tactical turn based shooter. Somewhere between Worms and X-Com, definitely on the lighter side. It’s the same vibe as Steam World 1 and 2, but now the cowboy robots are in space. It’s perfect for the Deck and easy to pick up for a few minutes at lunch or in between meetings.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
How does this game compare to the more recent Steam World games?
Is Steam World: Heist a procedurally generated roguelike or a singleplayer game with a specific constructed sequence of levels?
It looks really good, I have heard good things about most of the Steam World games I just have never actually given one a try.
Klordok@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Heist has a story and preset levels. Each level is usually a different ship you have to board and clear. They’re all connected by a sort of star map. The objectives for each level are preset. Though, the level layouts may be generated. I’ve rerun a couple and I remember the layouts being a bit different.
SteamWorld Dig 1&2 are platformers. I really enjoyed them. The gameplay for Heist is different but it still feels like the same quality.
DrCake@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Picked up warhammer Boltgun during the fps sale. Never been into warhammer or played this style of game before but loving it so far. Also playing Stardew Valley on a new farm for the 1.6 update
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Picked up warhammer Boltgun during the fps sale. Never been into warhammer or played this style of game before but loving it so far.
a mysterious trench coated figure strafe jumps out of the alley way so fast you can barely catch a glimpse of them before they shoot a rocket at their feet and launch over your head. Before you can react they are gone.
Wait! it looks like something fell out of their coat when they leaped by!
On the ground is a semi-intact cd-rom jewel case with video game artwork showing some unreal tournament-like ripoff game you have never heard of with the title Xonotic
Do you:
a) immediately go home and install Xonotic on your Steam Deck
or
b) attempt to strafe jump after the mysterious figure
MXX53@programming.dev 7 months ago
I recently have been trying to play through all of the final fantasy games in chronological order. (Mainline games). Playing the gba dawn of souls currently. Playing through ff1
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I want to play the Dead Space remake, but its like I’m watching a flipbook that doesn’t move nearly fast enough :(
Slay the spire and Portal 2 are my current time sinks tho
molme@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Playing Prince of Persia the lost crown! It plays amazing on the steam deck!
ghostblackout@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Switch games with yuzu and the other one that I don’t know how to spell besides that super hot and super hot mine control delete
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Pseudoregalia. It’s a 3D platformer/Metroidvania that mimics PSX/N64 graphics. I’m only a couple hours in, but so far it’s fun. The controls are buttery smooth.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve setup up emulation and have had a blast playing Everybody’s Golf 6 for the PS3. It is such a chill game. Golf games are really underrated and everybody’s golf does a great job of cartoony arcade game mixed with just enough real golf to make it interesting. Perfect on the Deck.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Yeah golf games are weird, I didn’t grow up playing golf and thus had zero connection to the aesthetics of golf, the wealth associations with it or the game itself.
Then I fell in love with disc golf and realized the game of golf (whether it be little bitty balls or discs) is an amazing way to dissect your psyche like you are some scientist in a lab pushing an animal to its mental limit except it isn’t fucked up because the animal is you.
Still most golf games… just realllllly don’t do it for me.
I think my favorite so far is honestly the phone game Mars Golf because it is a golf game that embraces the zen of golf. It recontextualizes what golf is in a way that makes it far more broadly appealing in my opinion.
How does Everybody’s Golf 6 compare to other golf games? Do you have any other recommendations? I am interested in anything from Turbo Golf and Golf With Friends to realistic golf simulators, it is more a matter if the game is rewarding to master or not.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ve really liked Everybody’s golf so far. I used to play it on the PSP, but then thought I might as well get the most up to date version possible. This 6th version had plenty of recommendations online as one of the best. It has got just enough real golf (compensation for wind, ground type, ground slant, height, etc) and arcade elements (hitting curve balls or super spin, a variety of clubs and balls types to pick for added stats, etc). I’d recommend trying it out. You’ll know after the first few rounds whether you’re going to like it or not.
I’ve also really liked stick man golf on the phone. PGA golf gets plenty of recommendations online too, but I didn’t want anything that was too realistic.
Dathknight@feddit.de 7 months ago
I just found Super Woden GT 2 an amazing Retro-Indy-Racer.
Fallout 4 with the hype around the show and the sale, I finally picked it up. The survival mode is very fun.
Also with the shutdown of the eShop, I finally hacked my WiiU and extracted images of my games. And with that I started a new play through of Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
XCX is such a blast, and it works so well on the Deck.
CopernicusQwark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Finally managed to get my hands on a Deck this last week. Been having a blast with both Hades 2 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
I was a bit worried with Pathfinder since it’s not verified, but I figured the controller scheme would be functional since they have a console version. So far I’ve been quite impressed with how smoothly it controls.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Yeah I usually don’t worry about non-verified games not working. It happens but the overwhelming majority of the time non-verified games work fine.
What to look out for is when a game is verified not to work.
squeakycat@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
“Yellow taxi goes vroom” is delightful to play on the Deck.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
It looks great, I’ve been looking at getting it since the second wind video on it.
blindsight@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I’ve mostly been playing a F2P game called Minion Masters. It’s a card game, but the cards come alive in 2-lane combat like a tiny auto-battle MOBA. It has short game lengths (6-10 min are typical), is generous with F2P players (I’ve paid $0 so far), and has enough strategic (deck building) and tactical (card playing) depth to stay interesting throughout.
It plays great on the Deck without any configuration, even though it’s “unsupported”. I suppose some of the card text might be a bit small for some, but that’s only relevant in the deck building screen where you can easily zoom in on cards. There’s a UI option to read your partner’s cards in 2v2, but I’ve never felt the need to. By the time you’re good enough at the game to react to your partner’s hand, you’ll already know the cards well enough that you don’t need to read them.
I should maybe add that I got a bunch of free cards when they had free DLC to celebrate the release of the game on Android, so idk if my F2P experience is typical.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I have played this one a little bit on the Steam Deck and I really liked it too! The gameplay is immediately intuitive and fun and the 2v2 mode looks like it would be a blast with the right friends.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I’m getting annoyed with the constant crashes of Workers & Resources (Industrial Planning, Construction and Management Game). It is by far my favourite game at the moment, but the game is very unstable on Linux, which can be very frustrating. I’d really like to learn more about troubleshooting compatibility layers and start options.
Minecraft runs smooth with Prism Launcher, which doesn’t even have this annoying credential-loss bug like on the official launcher. Why would anyone map shift to pressing the stick in Minecraft? Proper crouching is but so important to edge-work and digging down.
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I tried to start playing mc on the deck but I don’t really understand how to make changes to the controller setup. I’ll have to sit down and read it properly and try again next time I get the urge.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Every game added to your steam deck’s steam library (whether it is an official steam game or simply a shortcut to a game you installed some other way and are just linking to steam (right click on game or application in desktop mode and click “add to steam”)) has a set of controller profiles associated with it. Your steam deck starts off with some basic templates for steam deck onboard control schemes like Gamepad Layout or WASD and Mouse Layout that map the onboard steam deck controls to what most defaults are for that type of software or game.
You can search for community layouts very easily in the steam deck’s controller menu, and you can go into the settings and start changing things by simply opening up the controller layout menu and clicking edit layout. You have control over all of the buttons and inputs on the steam deck and there is a simple menu system that allows you to walk through settings for everything on your deck (buttons, joysticks, touchpads, triggers etc…).
It might seem overwhelming at first, but the good thing is that manyyyyy popular games already have controller mappings that a steam deck user in the community uploaded to steam. Just go into the community layouts tab and browse a couple steam deck layouts, try them out quick and pick the one that feels most intuitive to you and then just go. Later down the road you can get your hands dirty and tweak the little things if you want (and I promise it really isn’t that overwhelming).
The starting controller layout templates can’t be deleted/written over, so you don’t need to worry about messing anything up either, you can always just start again from the very decent templates and defaults.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Press STEAM > Go to controller settings (proper, not just the layout display) > Either press on the current layout to look for a different template or press on Edit layout
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Ur-Quan Masters Mega Mod, Talos Principle 2, and Pictopix.
IcePee@lemmy.beru.co 7 months ago
Is Talos Principle 2 any good? I got stuck on the latter puzzles in the Road To Gehenna expansion and didn’t want to progress in case TP2 needs knowledge of this expansion.
wfh@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I learned this week-end that Vita3k runs great on the Deck and that game compatibility has tremendously advanced, so I’m doing WipEout 2048 right now :D
TheLongPrice@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Mr Sun’s Hatbox (maybe my GotY?) Dragons Dogma 1
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I’m really interested in Mr Sun’s Hatbox actually, I’ve played some of his previous games and they were really good. I take it you recommend it?
TheLongPrice@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Definitely! The gameplay loop of action <-> base management is super cool. You end up feeling attached to the characters you’ve leveled high, so the missions feel high stakes even though losing characters isn’t really that punishing in actuality.
I thought the game looked too chaotic in the trailers, but it allows you to play methodically if you want to.
dditty@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Playing through Tunic for the first time - loving it so far!
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Tunic looks great, I’ve been waiting and hoping it will get a decent sale.
donio@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Picked up Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor a few days ago and I’m now 20 hours in, really enjoying it. It’s a very thematic translation of the original DRG into a survivor game. The terrain and mining are a great addition to the survivor formula, it’s not only for resource collection but it also gives a new twist to the positioning puzzle. The game seems very well suited for more content so I hope that it will keep coming.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cat quest 2
Furty@mstdn.games 7 months ago
@Fubarberry Still into Balatro. Also getting into Minishoot Adventures and Hades 2 thanks to that surprise EA release!
LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I’ve had a bit more free time these days and really wanted to play sea of thieves but they broke the game for steam deck the day after I bought it. I’ve been salty over it ever since (around a week now)
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I’ve been salty over it ever since (around a week now)
Sounds like you have been rather unsalty landlubber!!!
but seriously fuck that ughh
IcePee@lemmy.beru.co 7 months ago
After watching Nerd Cubed play Coin Pusher Casino, I also got hooked. Bit of a guilty pleasure, that. But, three things to recommend it, though:
- Realistic physics throughout make it quite a technically advanced game despite it probably all it took was a toggle in Unity.
- There’s a native Linux port.
- Other than the initial outlay for the game the only resource you’ll expend is your precious time alive. So, there’s no freemium model where you pay to advance. And no payment for additional unlockable content.
You play tables to get credits, to get perks that make it more pleasurable (not to mention possible) to play tables, to … The very essence of an RPG grind. And a bit of a skinner box.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Stardew Valley — for the thousandth time (new patches = new farm)
Beaver@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Hopefully one day we can get the they/them options.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Would be nice, but the amount of dialogue updates would be daunting for a one person operation.