Correct. The whole vibe is tailored for chilling. The music is extremely nice and mellow, your job is to build an idyllic rural landscape, and there’s no timer or pressure to make your next move.
Highly recommend for a super chill puzzle game.
Can confirm. Got so many hours out of it and it just doesn’t stop…
Too many help
Steam deck is much more comfortable to play. The switch joycon things are flat and small and horrendous to hold for long periods.
The Switch is much smaller and lighter.
The Steam deck has access to many, many more games than the switch, and these are usually significantly cheaper to buy than from the Nintendo store.
You can also emulate up to PS3 era games on the Steam deck.
While you can emulate modern Switch games on the deck, tbh I find doing so quite hard. It’s certainly more complex than emulating playstation 1 or N64. So the Switch is the easier console to play new Nintendo games, and games like Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8, and the new Zeldas, are absolutely worth playing.
But honestly, imo the deck wipes the floor with the Switch. It’s so much nicer to play, you can build your dream nostalgia emulation library, you get way more bang for your buck buying games from steam (especially during sales), and you can run much more graphically intensive games than the switch. Plus with some tech know how and patience you can emulate most switch games on the steam deck.
Another vote for PS5 controller. The built in gyro is absolute dreams for gyro docked gaming.
Depends on the game, but use the joystick or trackpad to do you broad brush aiming to get the crosshair kinda near the enemy, then use gyro for the fine tuning.
It does take practice, and it can be good to learn on an easier game with a dedicated aim down the sights button (which can be set to activate gyro too). I found the mouse and keyboard mod for Goldeneye64 was the perfect way to learn. Gyro is activated when you press R for crosshair aim, and the enemy AI has the reaction times of a donkey on ketamine, so you have time to get your aim in while they remember what planet they’re on and how to aim their gun.
After an hour or two I was dashing around speedrunning faculty and headshotting the shit out of guards like an absolute lad.
Gyro’s worth learning, because put simply so many older fps games are just unplayable without it. Joystick aiming sans autoaim just doesn’t cut it for games designed for mouse and keyboard. Gyro legitimately bridges the gap between controller and mouse by like 70-80%.
In my experience, you’ll quickly use it for more than that. It’s too nice having lots of games ready to go at a press, rather than having to wait an hour downloading everything before playing.
Steam deck’s exceptional at having a wide library of fun games. PS5 is limited to PS4-PS5 games. The deck can run a high number of games on any platform from the birth of video games to the present day. It’s intoxicating building a wide library of all time favourites. And unlike my PC, the deck is so easy to pick up and play.
Plus modern games file sizes are only getting bigger, so who knows maybe by next year 1tb might only fit 3-4 modern games.
Spend tha money
Probably got a bit overexcited stocking up for the arrival of my OLED.
But this means I’ll definitely not buy any more in the winter sale. No sir.