My adult sister has expressed interest in some gaming and I’d like to get her a steam deck, but she’s basically only ever played one or two games very long ago on GameCube.
I’d like make her a steam account and pre-buy a bunch of games to lower the barrier of entry.
Games can be new or old, cheap or expensive, as long as they aren’t too complicated from controls perspective or hard.
Also some games she could potentially play with kid/husband if they are ever interested? All I really know is overcooked.
Budget is fairly big, so if you have a whole-ass list of ideas, I’d like to hear them all :)
Appreciate any recommendations for your favorite games that you think a “new player” would enjoy. cheers
First setup the games she used to play on an emulator. Second since you didn’t give a genre you gotta give her options
Puzzle games - Portal 1 and 2. Tetris. Puzzle quest. And maybe a few more. Platformers - cult of the lamb. Ori and the blind forest. Celeste. RPG- ni no kuni 2. Ff7 remake. The Witcher 3. Bastion. Card games - slay the spire, poker, solitaire Rogue like - hades, dead cells. Action adventure - Uncharted, God of war, Horizon . FPS - Doom, Titanfall, call of duty. Half life Strategy - civilization, age of empires… I’m not familiar enough with this genre on deck. Visual novels - doki doki lit club Souls like - whatever is in the space, sekiro Farming sim - stardew valley and Dave the diver Racing - NFS, forza Managment - the sims, f1 manager, sim city.
Basically get a good bit of each genre and encourage her to try the games out.
And setup emulation station to be plug and play, get something like tiny best set go or whatever and give her some easy options. Scraped to look nice.