A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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Portal 1 and 2. The spin off Aperture Desk Job is also an introductory game for the Steam Deck, explaining all the controls.
Apart from that there should be a top games played on Steam Deck somewhere around here.
When you start playing shooters on the Deck try to get comfortable with gyro aiming and maybe flick stick. Many games don't have aim assist on the PC, so aiming with a stick is harder than on consoles.
I already downloaded DeskJob! Thanks!
Two great games that are perfect for Steam Deck - Hades and Hollow Knight.
I did a full playthrough of Hollow Knight when I got my OLED deck (except some of the extra Godhome challenge stuff). It was gorgeous and got 8-9 hours of play from a full charge. Highly recommended.
Fallout New Vegas is awesome, an FPS with RPG elements, that has brilliant humor and huge replayability
Dishonored is a great game where you deal with stealth and magic super powers in a steampunk setting.
The Outer Worlds is a short FPS with RPG elements, it is made by the people who made Fallout New Vegas and is set in a Sci-Fi future in space.
Forza Horizon 4 is a lovely open world racing game set in a fictional UK.
Forza Horizon 5 is the follow up to 4 and is set in Mexico, I find it more boring than 4
Myst (2021), a remake of the classic adventure game from the early 90s, made by the original creator of Myst, Cyan.
OpenRA, play the original Command & Conquer games Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on modern computers with working online multiplayer for free.
Hades
Dead Cells
Halls of Torment
Bloodstained
Vampire Survivor
Backpack Hero
Megaman/megamanx collections(just picked these up from.a humblebundle if they are still available)
Brutal Legends
EmuStation(bit of a setup on this but worth it if you want to emulate things)
Edit: why the ever loving hell cant i do single line? Double enter is dumb
Hades Dead Cells Halls of Torment Bloodstained Vampire Survivor Backpack Hero Megaman
Is one long motherfucker of a title! They should've thought of something more concise
Also, press return twice to leave a space between lines, btw
Thanks, I would prefer it look like this screen shot. So dumb
In that case.
Press.
Space.
Twice after each line before pressing enter.
Unfortunately on Android that adds a full stop too!
Your punctuation and the lack thereof gave me an aneurysm
Unfortunately, one enter in the editor doesn't actually create a new line
I'm sure their intention was a list
Oh god sorry, it was supposed to be on a new line. God why does the format change from how its typed out. lemme go fix it
Single new line is two spaces followed by Enter.
Like this.
Been playing a lot of Doom eternal and Red Dead Redemption 2 on mine
I wouldn't recommend RDR2 here because you need a net connection to launch the game.
good point. completely forgot about that
Risk of Rain 2. It's actually not First person, but Third person shooter. There's endless content due to the random nature. It's very difficult in the beginning imo but gets better as you learn the game and how to curate your items a bit
Deep Rock Galactic
It's an FPS, it plays great on the Deck, it supports simultaneous mouse and gamepad (so you can have faster/precise aiming but still use game controls), and it's tons of fun.
Get Heroic Launcher to add games from GoG, Epic, and Amazon Gaming (make sure to turn off Steam Runtime, Esync, and the anti-cheats in your settings; turn on per each game if you need them).
And keep an eye on !freegamefindings@lemmit.online and !freegames@feddit.uk
On top of all the great suggestions here I'd like to point out that the deck is a great emulation machine. Everything up to the ps2 era runs flawlessly but it can also do pretty well with Wii u, ps3 and Switch emulation too but performance will vary from title to title.
It's also a great fallback in case the deck gets unhappy about not having a network connection (YMMV but some people have pretty bad issues with this) and steam games won't start. Non steam games work just fine regardless of whether or not you have an internet connection.
Cannot second this recommendation enough. 90% of what I use my Deck for is playing old Nintendo games.
You can use EmuDeck to add all of your ROMs to your library as if they were Steam games. It uses RetroArch, so you can also enable achievements for pretty much every game by logging into retroachievements.org
Brotato is a perfect game for the Deck and it's my favorite from the "auto shooter" genre.
Seconding this, at first I thought it was obtuse and overly difficult. But once you get a feel for how the synergies work it's amazing. Despite the simple structure it's a much deeper and more mechanically complex game than Vampire Survivors, and you have a lot more control over your builds.
On the other hand it's a positively insidious timewaster. (But isn't that the point?) I certainly never expected to get 100 hours of fun out of it, but that's what happened.
As for FPS, visually simpler stuff is perhaps easier to enjoy on the small screen. I highly recommend Amid Evil if you enjoy classic Quake style shooters. I used it to teach myself how to effectively play shooters with the touchpads, which can be a tough hill to climb but definitely pays off. Don't be afraid to play with the control settings through Steam; personally I run 175% sensitivity, no accel or haptics, with high friction trackball to help quickly change directions. It took a few hours to figure out what worked but once you get a feel for what's comfortable for you personally it only takes a couple minutes per game to dial in the control settings.
Yakuza 0 is a great entry point to the series and runs really well on the Steam Deck. I recently finished Dredge and really enjoyed it on the Deck. Lonely Mountain Downhill is a enjoyable skill-based mountain biking game that's a lot of fun to explore and has a ton of content. Snowrunner is a chill game that works well on the Deck too...it's kinda like Dark Souls for trucks, but meditative. Hollow Knight is great and looks really good on the OLED screen. Pretty much any of the Fallout games are a good choice; New Vegas is probably the best overall but you'll need to use Desktop Mode to get some community patches in there while Fallout 4 is not as good story-wise but has better moment-to-moment gameplay feel. Hades is a great run-based roguelike that looks and works great on the Deck. I played the entirety of Jedi Fallen Order on the Steam Deck and it was great. Dead Cells and Scourgebringer are great action roguelikes that feel great to play and run well on the Deck. And while Baldurs Gate 3 is Larian's latest triumph, it can run into performance issues in the latter half of the game on the Deck; Divinity: Original Sin 2 was their prior game and it runs very well on the Deck and is a great game in its own right.
There's probably a lot more, but that's off the top of my head!
For other communities, the various Linux gaming communities will all be decent.
https://lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming
Do you have Internet in the ship? The biggest potential issue is that many games need an Internet connection once every few days to recheck the license.
I don't play that many FPS games these days, but I would highly recommend DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal, they both run fantastic and are great games.
Cyberpunk is pretty good these days as well. Titanfall 2 is a great game and goes on sale for super cheap, but when EA switched it from using the origin launcher to the EA app it apparently caused some issues with the game crashing or refusing to run sometimes. I haven't tried it myself since the changeover, so I don't know how bad the problem actually is.
I can probably provide more recommendations for adventure games, but I'd need some examples of what kind of games you like.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise, if you're familiar with modding you can make the games look even better. Try to play the first 3 games in chronological order before jumping into GAMMA or Anomaly. HBD btw!
Cyberpunk GTA V Witcher 3 Baldurs Gate 3 Dead Space The evil within 2 Hogwarts Legacy Hollow Knight The mortuary assistant Uncharted
This is in no particular order. I was just trying to remember the games I enjoyed the most on the steam deck.
Fixed your formatting:
Just a tip: when asking for game recommendations, it usually helps narrow things down if you give some examples of games you've already played and enjoyed.
Saints Row III plays wonderfully, and has a great mix of quick and longer play objectives, which really makes it fit the times and places I play on my SteamDeck.
First of all, make a habit of checking IsThereAnyDeal before getting any PC game. There are lots of PC game stores, many selling Steam keys for less than Steam. Or you could get a bundle with some games you like, some you would never think of, for less than the price of 1. Right now I think Fanatical is about the best of the bundlers, Humble sometimes has good stuff too.
You might want to get more of your games on GoG than Steam. It's a little more work to set up Heroic to handle GoG, but after that it is pretty close to automatic. Once you have a GoG game working, it is never going to say "I know there is an update out there and I refuse to play until you download all 50 ziggabytes of it on your tethering".
I'm not particularly fond of FPSes, so I can't help you there. If you haven't already played Batman Arkham or the new Tomb Raider games on a console, catch up on those? The Humble Mind-Bending Masterpieces bundle is fantastic, being stuck on a couple of puzzles and having them roll around in your mind during dull ship duties could work together. Fanatical's 3 for $5 BYO Relentless bundle has Red Faction Guerilla, Void Scrappers, Graveyard Keeper or Neverinth?
Burnout Paradise (not remastered), Dicey Dungeons, backpack hero, peglin, cat quest, pokemon infinite fusion (not on steam), broforce, Cassette Beasts, distance, enter the gungeon, Streets of rogue
Just tried Severed Steel this week after trying the demo for the studios next game on next fest last week. It's an incredible movement shooter with a great soundtrack and really satisfying gameplay. Highly recommend. Regularly goes on sale for five dollars and it's a steel at that price. :)
Halo mcc
If you like platformers, I highly recommend Pizza Tower.
The platforming is as if Wario Land and Sonic had a baby. And it's more refined than both of those games. The art is amazing, and it's reminiscent of old cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and Courage the Cowardly Dog. And don't even get me started about the music, there's some absolute bangers in there and the tracks add a lot to every level.
If you like JRPG's, then can't go wrong with the persona series
I really like how Rimworld plays. It's a colony sim with the ability to control pawns. And there are many great mods to help improve and change base gameplay
Xcom 2 is pretty much the only game I've been able to play in handheld but that's skill issue on my part. It's turn based tactical combat, it's been a lot of fun for me, maybe try it out
Oh and for games that will just kill your down time (if that's what you are looking for).
With mouse and Keyboard
With just a gamepad
With multiple controllers (and friends)
I like FPS games
HDoom and Gal*Gun series
'Metal gear 5, the phantom pain' and 'Death Standing' both look amazing on the deck and are worth checking out if you don't mind Kojima studio's whole deal!
Recently installed MGSV on Deck and having a blast. It runs really well and I forgot how awesome the game is.