I’m getting a Deck finally now that the OLED model is releasing and battery life is significantly improved. The hardware has such good potential for so many games but I honestly have no idea what I’m actually going to use it for lol.

The best ideas I can come up with are basically every Bethesda RPG, Bioshock, turn based JRPG (like Octopath), and Halo. Idk if any of those are really like must have games that are system sellers. Maybe I’m just picky. I dunno.

My question would be what are things you use your Deck for? Either top 3 or top 5 would be nice. It’s like a half “what do you do” and half “what should I do” with the Deck. What is the game(s) that made the purchase worth it?

  • zzagas@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

    • Factorio

    • Subnautica

    • Battle Brothers

    • Hollow Knight

  • PapiCats@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. Elder Scrolls Online
    2. Slay the Spire
    3. Foxhole
    4. Fallout 76 (or any fallout really)
    5. Sea of Thieves
  • Pethron@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Dead cells, Hades, Diablo III, Portal, Dredge.

    Usually the ones that work best with gaming pads arenmy favorite. Planning to buy elden ring since it seems very good

  • mlopes@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Psychonauts 2 Horizon Zero Dawn Spider-Man Remastered Hollow Knight The Messenger

  • Matais99@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Since you mentioned turn based jrpgs, I would recommend Persona 5. It’s a great game that runs and looks amazing on the steam deck. It has a lot of style, and the UI uses a lot of red and black that I imagine would look incredible on an OLED screen.

    I really like 2D games on the SD. Hollow Knight is an amazing and gorgeous metroidvania. Shovel Knight is a retro styled platformer. Cassette Beasts is a monster tamer that has a ton of innovations and twists on the standard pokemon formula.

    More recently, I have been enjoying Risk of Rain Returns, which is a brutal but fun rogue like.

  • Eldritch_Raven@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This past week I just tried out Vampire Survivors and got immediately hooked on it. But other than that one:

    • Knights of the Old Republic II. Runs perfectly.
    • Cyberpunk
    • Baldur’s Gate 3 (although bad Act 3 performance)
  • efingoffatwork@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Broforce Vampire survivor Need for speed heat

    If your getting the OLED steam deck I’d be really tempted to get “Ori and the will of the wisps” and play through that in there. Already a beautiful game and in the OLED it should look stunning. Also just a super fun game.

  • CursemarsWasTaken@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I’ve been playing a ton of Wizard101 on the deck, and there’s a guide to play older accounts for those veteran players too! The community preset is perfect and runs super smooth.

  • Whiteguy1x@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bethesda rpgs. Modded skyrim and fallout 4 on the go are pretty nice. They both play really well with some 50ish fps areas in Boston.

    Basically any ps4 era game you love will run perfectly fine on the deck in my experience

  • mr_apeezy@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    EDITED for Top 5 (instead of long list of dope games):

    Hollow Knight

    Yakuza 0

    Horizon Chase Turbo

    Batman: Arkham Origins

    Darksiders 3

    • one additional

    Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales