Balatro, Nier, Dark Souls, and Stardew.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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Just setup mods for my partner's steamdeck, ended up putting stardew Very expanded on both our decks and doing a new playthrough, needed to tweak a few settings as a chunk of mods seem to expect keyboard/mouse controls.
Runs pretty well all things considered, it's added an overwhelming amount of stuff.
I haven't even looked at the file structures for games yet. Is it similar to where the games folders are in Windows? Im guessing the game folders themselves aren't different, but wheres the steam stuff to get there?
If you do it manually, path is something like (if it's on the ssd at least)
~/.local/steam/steamapps/common/StardewValley/mods
SMAPI has a .sh in their release zip that sets it up for you, and their wiki is pretty solid if you're wanting to do it through proton instead of the native application. I gave the nexus mod app a try, works pretty well but without premium you need to download mods individually, having an actual mod manager is nice though.
I've done rimworld modding running that through proton, but rimworld has workshop support and various mod managers so that was really easy to do (and plays pretty well, but I played rimworld on the og steam controller in the past so was kinda used to it)
Awesome, thank you!
Splitgate 2 and kingdom hearts
Just started Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice after wanting it for a long time... and I feel like I'm bouncing off it. Having never played any of the Dark Souls series, but having absorbed some of the concepts via cultural osmosis I feel like the game has gone: It's a soullike, you know what to do from here! But I have no idea what my goals are, other than running around and dying repeatedly, and occasionally finding a 'bonfire'.
I thought the combat was supposed to be a selling point, but it feels really clunky. Maybe I'm missing something, idk.
Sekiro is a wierd one because there's only two buttons during combat for awhile, until you start getting upgrades. Attack and guard. You get more options later on.
The clunkyness is part of the selling point. Dark Souls 1 is massively clunky and it's my favorite. You have to go into each fight realizing you're facing off agianst the enemy, you're not just running in and killing them.
I've had Sekiro on my wishlist for a long time because a lot of people consider it the best souls like game. I know the main point with it is that it's supposed to be more parry focused, you're expected to really learn and master enemy attack patterns and parry/counter windows. The first playthrough is supposed to be able slow/steady progress and learning, and then on a second playthrough you apparently feel like a god who's mastered an intricate dance and can't be stopped.
At least that's how it was described to me, but as far as the smaller "what do I do now" level I don't know what to tell you with my general lack of souls experience.
I'm still playing Clair Obscura Expedition 33 as my main game. I'm really enjoying it, I could take or leave the party/dodge mechanics, but the amount of build customization between weapon effects, skills, and equipable passives is incredible. A bunch of my friends have also bought the game, and we keep sharing builds we've found that feel super strong.
I recommend this performance mod, lets me play with a bit higher settings and raised my fps by 10 fps in some areas. It has a lot of different presets, I've been using default lighting ultra performance (and they using XeSS or FSR in game for upscaling)
To install the mod'a performance settings, copy the settings folder content to:
/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1903340/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Sandfall/Saved/Config/Windows/
To unlock all graphics settings in the game, you need the launch option SteamDeck=0 %command% , or alternatively installing fsr via the DeckyFramegen mod will also seemingly unlock all the other graphical settings as well.
The link doesn't work, but I might be using the same mod as seen in Steam Community? I has no idea about it having presets, thought it was one-and-done.
There was a performance mod being passed around that I tried earlier, it had some significant performance gains but had some serious downsides like some fabric would lose physics and just stick straight out, and things like the paint bridges were completely invisible.
Actually, I don't think anything works at Nexusmods. What a shite site.
Ah, they are just having an outage. Maybe the files will exist at some later date.
Ive also been playing with that mod and its awesome, really made the game feel so much smoother and more fluid. Ive been using the balanced mode though since the higher performance ones seemed to make everything look really foggy. FSR seems to work and look way better on the deck too. The only thing I've found so far about the gameplay that im not really fond of is that if you dont cycle out your reserve party they level so much slower and end up underleveled, so you have to keep switching uo your main party to make sure everyone is balanced. Also the platforming on the gestral beach is a fucking joke and i honestly think they might have put it in just as a tongue in cheek reference to how shit the game engine is.
Witcher 3 :Blood & wine🍷 !
Ahhhhh. This Dlc is so long that I don't even know where it ends. I really gotta stop doing every side quest I found(I grinded for house makeover & hearts of stone upgrades ) ,should focus on the main missions
- Brotato
- Diablo 1 via devilutionx, i do a run through of normal difficulty atleast once a year
- tainted grail fall of avalon, don't get how this is verified, fps often dips into low 20s. game itself seems fun though
- will probably start clair obscur.
yes, i totally abandoned playing soul reaver, because i kept playing other games :D
Brotato was the only game I played this week.
Do you play devilution x with trackpad mouse?
currently trying the gamepad bindings, but i am not a fan of the auto aim that comes with, so i'll probably switch to using keyboard bindings and use the trackpad for aiming spells and a mouse region bind on the left stick for walking.
had a similar setup with the steam controller before my old laptop decided to die on me.
Legacy of kain soul reaver remastered.
Still hard on the Monster Train 2 grind
Same!!
I'm replaying Sea Of Stars. It's an incredible game, and since it got a new free DLC, I thought it would be a great time to do a new playthrough.
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Stardew Valley
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Halo
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POE II
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Starfox 64
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Super Mario World
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Skyrim
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Oblivion
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Disco Elysium
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Civilization VI
Octopath traveller
I’ve just realized this week that I’ve got Battlefront 2 for free on my epic account. Took some tinkering, but made it work in heroic (had to disable umu) but it works great. I am almost finished with the campaign, which feels like a showcase of all the maps, characters, and features of the multiplayer game. Still fun though.
I just finished my chapter 2 play-through of Pokémon Flux; what a blast.
Also playing Control on the side. I finished it for the first time last month, but still a lot of side-quests to do, and the gameplay is still very fun.
Aside from that, the dailies/weeklies in Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, and Tabletop Simulator.
Yeah, I don't mention it very often anymore, but I'm always playing HSR on the side. I'm glad hoyo games work so well on the Deck.
Sakura Dungeon
I played Nightreign on the deck since I was away from home on launch day. It works all right, though I hope it gets some improvements. On a separate note, I tried the Stellar Blade demo and I'm blown away how well it performs. Its a steady 40ps with a Steam Deck preset. I thought it had no shot given my experience with Black Myth Wukong.
Stellar Blade is UE4, while Wukong is UE5.
UE5 performance is pretty bad on nearly every game it's in unfortunately.
