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What games are you playing on your deck? - December 2024

This may overlap a lot with the discussion on what people are buying during the Steam sale discussion, but here it is anyways.

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After finally upgrading to a 1TB ssd yesterday, I can finally splurge on some bigger games.
So right now I'm mostly playing vampire survivors
- I get what you're saying, but the sentence order definitely sounds like you needed to upgrade to 1TB of storage in order to play bigger games like Vampire Survivors.
  
  it was a little bit intended as the joke (although a true one)

Tunic. This game is beautiful and sessions on a full battery can last a while without charging. Highly recommend.
- This game evoked a feeling of wonder and discovery that I’ve rarely felt since childhood

Currently Metal Gear Rising.
- This one is such a banger. Look up guides on how to parry consistently if the game didn’t explain it well enough. It’s crucial to the enjoyment of the game, yet it is explained oh so poorly.

I spend hours setting up mods for games I’ve never played before so I can play the “best” version of it just to either get it working and play for a hell of a lot less time than I spent setting it up or giving up and going back to one of my comfort games.

Mad Max, snatched it for 2 bucks during the sale. Pretty good and chill game and well worth its price.
- Whoa. It runs on deck? I just finished it on desktop. Completionist wise it was such a burden and I wish it didn't have any achievements. Hopefully your sand trip is awesome!
  
  It runs beautifully.

Playing Pentiment right now
- Is it good, it's been on my wishlist for quite some time waiting for a bigger discount.
  
  yeah, I'm in the last 1/3 of the game and it's been really good. Getting used to the medieval script in dialogue bubbles took some time, but it's definitely worth it.

Monster Hunter: World + Iceborne was on sale so I snagged it and I've enjoyed it quite a bit. Runs just fine on the deck and even though the game is clearly intended for multiplayer it works totally fine as a solo game.
The main issue I had with the game is that there's no pause button (as mentioned, it's a game oriented towards multiplayer) which isn't really compatible with my current life but with Decky Loader and the Pause Game plugin installed I can easily pause the game mid-quest without worrying about failing the time limit.

Nearly done with Metaphor ReFantizio, and also playing some Astalibra and FEAR.
I recently found out that FEAR won't run well on modern windows PCs, and installed it on my Deck to see if it ran better on linux. Turns out it runs fantastically, with the Deck able to outperform any windows machine. I intended to only test performance, but FEAR is one of my favorite shooters of all time and I quickly got suckered back in. So I guess I'm going to do a full playthrough now.

My most played games continue to be Stardew Valley, Brawlhalla, Superflight, Just Cause 3, and Puyo Puyo Tetris.

Bluey: The Videogame. Worked past the resolution issues, the control issues, and now it is great fun with the 4 year old.

Mouthwashing, which I should finish tonight, Selaco - this one required a bit of tweaking but can mostly hold 60 now - and Balatro.

I bought Against the Storm a few weeks ago and that has taken most of my gaming time. Just bought Hogwarts Legacy from the sale, I’ll probably fire that up sometime soon.
- How do you deal with the janky text? I found it hard to learn the game with it all so aliased.
  
  For which game? I haven’t played Hogwarts yet but I just scaled up the UI for Against the Storm and have no issues reading the text.

One of the games I picked up on Steam Sale was Cobalt Core. Fantastic game, it ate my entire Thanksgiving break lol

I got Fields of Mistria during the sale. It's very similar to Stardew Valley, which I also enjoyed.

Guild Wars 2 for most of the time lately. That and Fallout 4 and done Torchlight 2.

Castlevania Dominus Collection. I don't know how I ever beat the games way back when, now I have to rewind during boss fights a lot. Got bored with Dawn of Sorrow as it dragged on towards the True Ending, really enjoying Portrait of Ruin. Johnathan's mobility combined with Charlotte's "fuck you and everyone around you" make such a great team.

Space Marine 1, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, Slay the Spire, Cross Code, and Droplitz.

Been replaying Watch_Dogs recently. Works surprisingly well. Probably going to play Gestalt next.

Palworld when I want to focus a little bit
BG3 when I want to focus a lot bit
Balatro when I want to focus none bit

I'm still mostly playing doom 2016.
I had a twenty year break from gaming and I've been trying to catch up since I got the steam deck but I remain pretty crap. I'm playing doom on little bitch mode and still finding it a challenge. I'm about half way through, I don't get a lot of gaming time.
I keep starting other games but not getting into them. But I think I'm gonna give dishonoured a try too.
Steam deck is probably the best machine I've bought in years.

Warzone 2100. You gotta dl it through the steamos explorer, but its fantastic on the handheld once you configure the controls

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