Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.
Octopath 2
Darkest Dungeon, Black Reliquary, Pillars of Eternity, Cloudpunk, Pathfinder 2, Divinity 2 Original Sin, Slay the Spire, Witcher 1 and 3, Morrowind, Oblivion, Torment, to name just a few…
Morrowind
Using OpenMW or vanilla engine? Any mods? I just ordered a Deck and Morrowind is at the top of my list of games to install.
I’m using Vanilla, but AFAIK modded would work just as well. The key for playing old, pre-controller games meant for big monitors on the Deck are two features: Stream Input and Native Zoom. I always map one of the back buttons (usually) to Toggle Zoom.
Please post about your experience with modded Morrowind, I might want to try that too!
You should definitely use OpenMW instead of vanilla, it’s not a mod but is instead a full engine rewrite. It runs natively on linux, has better performance, and a whole lot of other benefits:
- Native support for macOS, Linux, and Windows
- Improved physics and AI
- Distant terrain
- Save/Load dialogs organized by character
- Quality of life UI improvements, such as being able to search for spells
- Multiple quicksaves
- World map adjusts automatically to fit new landmass from mods such as Tamriel Rebuilt
- Support for up to 2147483646 loaded mods (up from 255 in the original Morrowind engine)
- Since it was made from scratch, virtually no engine bugs from the original Morrowind
- And much more
You can install it from the Discover store in desktop mode and then add it to steam, or alternatively you can use a tool like Protonup-qt (also in the discover store) to install Luxtorpeda, which is a tool for automatically launching supported games with rewritten engines. Once Luxtorpeda is installed you can open Morrowind steam properties in game mode, and check the “force specific compatibility tool” box and select to run the game with Luxtorpeda. After that it will automatically run the game through the OpenMW engine instead.
I finally got around to installing OpenMW - it looks much better! Thanks again
Alien Isolation has been stressing me out for 30 minutes each evening 😅
I recently bought the Cat Quest trilogy. I played the first two on my switch but the third one just came out and Steam did the whole bundle at a discount so I snagged it. Been enjoying replaying the first two before I start on the new one.
Ryujinx 😁
Hell yeah, fuck Nintendo, don’t let them take away your right to emulate the games you paid for (hell, I don’t mind if you emulate games you didn’t pay for, Nintendo is a massive scumbag company, it’s totally fine to pirate their stuff)
Ultimately the theft of the ruling class from the average artist and person in general is so staggeringly big that who gives honestly gives a shit anymore? Support game devs you like when you can by buying their games from stores that pay well to the developers and artists… but f&$@ big game companies, they dont need your money, they aren’t going to give a meaningful amount of it to the artists and or programmers doing the actual labor anyways so shrugs.
When Nintendo comes after people for emulating (especially old) games they aren’t protecting anything other than the ownership class who wants to continue to charge rent for absolutely every aspect of our lives whether they rightfully or ethically own the things they are charging rent for or not.
In anticipation of the Remake I’m playing Gothic again. First a swordfighter and now as a magician.
I’ve just started playing beam ng drive. Looks great so far, but I’m pretty shit at it.
If at first you crash and burn… well I mean it is Beam Ng so doesnt that mean you are actually playing the game right?
Tbh the physics makes crashes pretty fun. I do a lot of driving for my job and try to be a responsible, careful driver. So it’s nice to fire up the steam deck sometimes and drive like a complete wanker!
careful just like how violent video games will make you a stone cold killer addicted to violence eventually the addiction to speed will consume you until you become a lawless street racer straight out of midnight club. I have seen it happen over and over again to friends, eventually consequences always catch up with them… and they always end up losing their car in pink slip races to some new guy to the street racing scene who is shooting up the ranks improbably quickly and even has the eye of the coolest-most-badass street racer’s hot ex (who also street races)… it is a damn shame .
I’ve been playing a whole lot of Monster Hunter Rise. It runs really good, great performance and battery life (which makes sense considering it was originally a switch game). It’s my first real Monster Hunter game and I’m having a great time with it.
Only issues I’ve encountered: switching between docked and handheld play causes a minor fps drop until I restart the game. The game also has a utterly bizarre bug where if you’re playing with a controller designated as the 2nd player controller, any monster roar will drop the fps to 0 for like a minute. Super bizarre, no idea what kind of spaghetti code could cause that.
Edit: for anyone interested, Fanatical has a build your own monster hunter bundle right now that’s an incredibly good deal. Can get MH Rise + it’s big Sunbreak expansion for $11, previous best deal I had seen was $18 for the two. They also have MH World and a lot of other past MH games.
It does look like a nice deck game. I only ever played World, but I eventually got tired by the endless grind. How is Rise in this regard?
I haven’t played world, so unfortunately I can’t make a comparison. There’s definitely grinding to do though, hopefully someone who has played both can comment about it.
I haven’t played Rise, but the Monster Hunter series is pretty grindy in general
Sifu and Selaco
Kotor and Kotor 2! They are great on the deck!
Is it pretty feasible to install kotor 2 restored content mod? I vaguely remember it being available on steam workshop.
So sadly I have Kotor via Gog so I don’t have access to the steam store.
I believe if you have a steam copy the restored content mod is available via the workshop
I’ve been too lazy to install it via nexus or elsewhere
Guardians of the Galaxy. FPS is a little sluggish especially first chapter (theres a bug where the whole screen goes black but audio goes through). However, its still fun
Also LIMBO which runs fine on the deck
I use moonlight to stream my pc to my steam deck. It automatically sets the resolution and refresh rate when i connect. It amazing.
I’ve been playing red dead redemption 2 and i just finished crime scene cleaner yesterday. and as always, genshin impact.
Peglin
For some reason I’ve played Noita for the past month. Every time I’ve started to get bored I get a good run and the game dumps something new and interesting on my lap.
i havent tried it but you arent alone in feeling like it has staying power as a roguelike, people talk about it really highly even after long amounts of play time in my experience.
