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Looking for something that won't kill my battey and has some depth. I have Vampire Survivor but that get stale after about 30 minutes.

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[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slay the Spire is a deck mainstay for me. A good run is 40 minutes to an hour.

[–] mrlupulus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It is also pretty easy on battery

[–] Domiku@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about SNES or GBA emulation? For what it’s worth, many flights now have a power outlet between the seats

[–] FullOfBallooons@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Seconding the emulation idea. Plenty of outstanding SNES games out there.

[–] SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Stardew valley can get like 5-6 hours of battery easy on the steam deck

[–] vanderbilt@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Emulating Gamecube games is pretty low-spec if you compile the shaders beforehand. Battery life nets 2-3 hours on flights for me (Steam Deck). I have nearly 2000 hours of Animal Crossing GC combined, pls don't judge me 😅.

[–] iNeedScissors67@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chained Echoes. 16 bit RPG with great art and gameplay, but it's not hard on the battery and it has modern day QOL features.

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

100% support this. Feels like it was made for the deck. Gives me super big Game Gear vibes but like you said, with 2023 qol.

[–] Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Pizza Tower is fun.

[–] GiuEliNo@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tunic, hades, dead cells, some old rpg like fallout nev vegas or fable

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[–] tom@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Check out Celeste if you haven’t already. For me it’s the perfect 2D platformer and works really well on the deck. Think I clocked around 100 hours on it just on it alone!

[–] arcdrag@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Stardew Valley would be my pick.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hades was practically made for Steam Deck

[–] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hades is great, but it's not very battery friendly for a 2d game in my experience.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You can turn on practically all the power saving features and it still runs great. I haven't timed it, but it can go on pretty long.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Baba is You can last for over 6 and a half hours - the longest battery life I've ever seen on my Deck. You just need to enable the minimum TDP limit.

I also believe Brotato lasts a lot, Pixross too.

[–] Kholdy@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most planes nowadays have a charging port where you can plug in your phone for the duration of the flight. Therefore, I recommend getting an emulator on your phone and playing games on it. Usually if I want something casual, I get an NDS emulator and play Pokemon Platinum or HGSS. Other recommendations are FFIV, Etrian Odyssey III, Shin Megami Tensei, DQ4, some of these are ports but they run well on DS emulator.

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[–] Bakoda@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Bastion, Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Tunic are all great. I also really like emulation. I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom more on my Steam Deck than on my switch!

[–] Igloojoe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Play some factorio. You'll play it forever.

The factory must grow

[–] decavolt@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not.OP, but will also be on a long flight with steam deck soon. I keep hearing about Factorio and I think it's time to push the button.

[–] loki2236@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Controls are more mouse/kb oriented, but there are a LOT of players that game on steam deck.

The factory must grow

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[–] ice9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] broken_chatbot@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you prefer some story-heavy games, you can try Eastward. It has gorgeous art style and controls and UI are a great fit for handheld devices such as Deck and Switch. It takes ~15% battery a hour and can be completed in 10 to 15 hours.

If you're fine with longer games which will take 45-70 hours total, try some 2D JRPGs like Trails in the Sky FC (which also has nice touch input in menus!), Trails from Zero and Chained Echoes. All tree aren't battery-heavy at all.

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dredge Dredge Dredge!!!! GOTY for me personally. And I'm normally a desktop pc gamer.

[–] Ni@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Desperate to play dredge, but I keep telling myself I need to finished my current game first. Might just abandon it and play dredge instead!

The dredge devlogs are really interesting as well.

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[–] Unblended@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FTL, Into the Breach, and Slay the Spire are mostly puzzle games -- but since they're roguelikes they have a little depth. Depends on what you mean.

I find them very replayable but I like puzzle games because I have bad hands and game controllers are not an option.

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[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

If you're flying commercial, you should be able to charge your steam deck while you fly.

[–] rockyTron@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Star Traders: Frontiers on Android. Space trading rpg with depth and story. A bit grindy bit there's so many paths to take it can suck up hours (mind you it's difficult and you will die permadeths with many characters, it's mind boggling how many ways there are to succeed, just many more ways to fail too. Great way to spend a five hour flight.

[–] ShadowRam@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Rogue Legacy. Good game, replayability, doesn't drain the batt

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dunno if it's your jam, but I just picked up Dead Cells and it's super light weight power wise. Also, retro emulation is usually pretty good on the battery. Get Emudeck going and some GB or GBA games and have a blast.

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Cat quest will take you about 5 hours to beat and is light to run. Streets of Rogue is good too.

[–] Cal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're into 2D platformers.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.

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[–] Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know how draining Celeste was, but it can't be too much. Most indie games probably work.

[–] cities@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Terraria plays really well IMO

[–] samdems@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I found civ5 was great to play when i when on a 4 hour flight.

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Tough to give anything concrete without preferences but I'll toss out a few. Chronicon is a great ARPG that's easy on the battery due to simple graphics (don't let them fool you). Voxelgram is 3d picross, if that happens to be your thing. Dicey Dungeons is a dice based roguelite that's totally full of charm.

[–] XiELEd@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I like playing through KEMCO games when I'm bored, though they're mostly turn-based JRPG games. My favorite is Asdivine Dios.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Emulated systems such as GameCube or psx work well on a long flight and you can have a lot of roms to suit the mood and can keep the tdp fairly low. Like 5 or 6

[–] snappy_ranger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Valheim, Satisfactory, Factorio, Fable, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Super Meat Boy,

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Satisfactory have controller support now?

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Memmy app now has notifications so I just saw this. Steam Deck / Steam controllers work with any game. Satisfactory doesn’t have controller support but I’ve never felt I needed it as I have fully customized my controller experience thanks to Steam Input. If you bought on Epic you can still use Steam Input by adding it as a non steam game and launching from Steam.

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[–] seaneoo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I just 100%’d Path of Giants. Very relaxing and cute puzzle game that can kill 2 - 3 hours.

[–] Grrbrr@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I have flown twice with a deck-like windows pc and with a switch.

Both times i loaded them up with all the games. Probably 10 times more i could ever hope to play.

I ended up playing only Lumines.

[–] Tununias@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You could get Idol Showdown. It’s a 100% free fighting game that’s only 200 MB. It might not be the only game you’d want to take along though.

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