Sorry, bit late on this one. Life’s been hectic.
Playing Dragon Age Veilguard. Just finished the first quest, and it’s a lot of fun so far.
Cookie cutter. A really neat metroidvania with a lot of blood
Mainly Balatro and Factorio at the moment, after finishing Forza Horizon 5 (whatever finishing in that game means lol).
How does factorio work? Do you play with a magnifying glass?
Haha, well it is tiny, but you can zoom in with R2 + Dpad down if you want that for viewing details. Tbh, it works quite well for me, all the handy controller shortcuts and the initial binding configuration are pretty neat, too!
Dangerous Waters.
Very old style, bit clumsy on the controls, but incredibly tense with the gritty sonar stuff.
Been only playing the P-3C airplane so far, but there’s also tons of submarines, a helicopter and a frigate.
It is so satisfying to find and torpedo a submarines after staring at sonar graphs and dropping buoys for a while. Love it! I’ll be sharing an updated aircraft-oriented controls config when I’m happy with it, based on the one community config that was there, which was more sub-oriented.
Ocarina of Time. I didn’t grow up with the older games but I’m having fun so far. I’ll play the other titles afterward
Witcher 3, Just finished the main story. And boy, CDPR really nailed the story/ character writing in this game. Looking to grab “Hearts of stone” & “Blood and Wind” DLC next GOG sale.
What an amazing 50hr time sink!
Tape to Tape. It’s a roguelite hockey game that has a big sense of humor.
I bought Vampire Survivors since it was slightly discounted and have only heard rave reviews about it… I sank 7 hours in my first day lol!!
Picked up all the DLCs too. Imo worth the money to support the developer
I’ve played 60 hrs of Vampire Survivors in the last year since I got my SD OLED. Had the game platinumed before the latest DLC release. Just a ton of fun
I have it on my tablet (Android), and I love it. It is so simple, but satisfying.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker. After a rough day of work, there’s something incredibly soothing about dismantling a spaceship over a couple of hours.
Me too! I’m playing it on the easiest mode so I can just not stress and enjoy the hygge of breaking down spaceships
Same here. No oxygen depletion, and go about tearing that thing apart slowly. One thing I haven’t managed is to grab the bunny. I mean, I do grab it, but can’t get it to appear in my quarters, it just sticks to my hand until I let go.
Oh, I think you have to grab it with x, like you do with parts and data
That lets you know all you need about how relaxed I play. I had no idea X could “pull” as much as push. Thanks so much, I’ll do that again today.
Loop Hero . Picked it up for last week for just under $5 and it’s been a lot of fun.
It’s an Indie rogue-like with a surprising amount going on.
My favorite being is that it mixes a deck builder rogue-like with building a world each run.
The “permanent upgrades” (outside of the game-loop) are pretty interesting as well- building a village/city and managing supplies.
Visions of Mana. I’m almost at the end and I have been putting off beating it because then I will be sad.
Tried it on the Deck in TV mode, but the frame rates dropped so much during boss fights / class strikes I went back to finishing it on PC. I guess on the small screen I could have dropped the settings further, but on TV that was really hard on the eyes. Which is sad, as I mainly got the deck as a “switch but for pc games”. Guess it’ll mostly only work for pixel art games etc. for me.
Yakuza Like a Dragon. Super fun and super silly, runs perfectly on Deck @40FPS but boy is it a battery hog.
Sea of Stars. 🌊✨
It’s a really well done, turn based style rpg.
Been enjoying it a lot.
I’m itching for the co-op update to do a second play through with my gf.
still cyberpunk. just started the phantom liberty stuff. man is that ever not stealth decker friendly.
Is it the Phantom Liberty part specifically that isn’t deck friendly? I replayed some of base cyberpunk on my OLED recently, and was really impressed by how well it runs now. I seem to remember performance being a lot worse when I tried it back on my original LCD deck.
The new content just has a bunch of parts where you are mobbed so if your playstyle is ninja decker and not the best up close and personal it can be tough. Its definately a bit different with a ton of parkour initially and many hidden item caches. I actually just got through the initial mission and now everything has opened up.
Honestly mostly been learning blender, I am sure sure nobody ever intended blender to be used on a handheld gaming system but that is the beauty of the steam deck right?
Also been playing some everdell.
Coincidentally I had just downloaded Apex to start playing with a friend :(
I purchased a new monitor and video card right before rockstar pull their stunt with gta v. They arrived the day after I was locked out of gta online. So I feel your pain.
Honestly mostly been learning blender, I am sure sure nobody ever intended blender to be used on a handheld gaming system
I’m interested in the “how”
Just install blender from the discover app on the steam desktop, add it to steam as a non-steam game and you can launch it as you would any other game.
As for controls I prefer joysticks + gyro, but that is just me.
