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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month, sorted by playtime.
I love FROM games being all caps. Like Madvillain
FromSoft made DAVE THE DIVER? :P
I remember reading something about Japanese publishers using all caps because they don't use case in their own language. Something like that.
i mean it just looks cool too
Vampire Survivors is still ging strong.
Slay the spire is too good.
Out of those 20, 10 of them are either already on my deck or match my queue of games to play. Any reason to play skyrim special edition over legendary edition? I plan on playing the game without mods. I thought legendary edition would give better battery life. I do not remember is special edition has any worthwhile upgrades.
I think they both have the same battery life, but Anniversary has bundled Creator Community content with it.
Baldur's Gate 3 is certainly a surprise. I tried it on my Steam Deck, and not only could I not figure out how to make the graphics look decent on my monitor, but I had a problem where the game would eventually stop accepting mouse input, forcing me to quit and relaunch. I didn't get far until I switched to the macOS version once it came out.
How are people playing that game on a Steam Deck?
It works fine for me, with a few small settings tweaks. I've probably logged ~70 of my ~310 playtime hours playing on Deck.
Of course it's mostly low settings, so it doesn't look as beautiful as it does running on my desktop via a 3080 at 1440p... but it looks good enough and runs well enough to be enjoyable on a handheld. I don't think I could enjoy an action-heavy game with the same performance, but for something turn-based that focuses more on the story, I'm having a blast.
That said, it sounds like that's the crux: I'm playing it in a portable fashion, on the Deck's screen directly, while it sounds like you're playing on an external monitor, with keyboard+mouse?
So a steam deck... Is this a handheld laptop or a streaming device to your computer?
Bookmarking this, thanks for posting ! I'll add some gems to my try list :)