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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the April 2024, sorted by playtime

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fallout 4 in second position? Did I miss something ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Fallout tv show & next gen update ig

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Silksong when?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m surprised by Helldivers. I can’t imagine that it runs very well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been on this list since the release of the steam deck because the 3 people still trying to play that game on the deck haven't finished loading the world yet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That one really surprised me, does it have something like a render scale slider? Unless there’s a baked-in way to achieve ultra potato graphics, I just can’t imagine it’s playable.

But shit man, the numbers are right there! There’s gotta be something to it. Maybe people are just putting up with ~20fps averages or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I definitely put up with shit graphics and potato framerate for Baldur’s Gate 3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Man I’d render at fucken 800x600 if it got me like a solid 50 fps

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed that the games that dominate this list every month are very long games designed to suck players into their gameplay loops for hundreds of hours. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes me wonder if there are short games that are very popular, yet get left off of this list just because they end in 10 hours. I would like to see a top 20 list sorted by number of players rather than playtime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

So far I have a habit of playing the same game for longer when I play in short bursts on the train and sometimes bus to work. Games like those probably just work really well for commuting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Hmm that's weird, emulation station is missing :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Balatro made me have a 7/4 rhythm playing in my head 24/7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I got Balatro but I didn't get the hype, can you offer some advice on how to enjoy it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I don't think it clicked big time until about 10 hours in for me. I feel like I'm finally mastering it at 40 hours, but I'm sure I haven't discovered every play style yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

My advice would probably be to try every wild idea for a deck. It's easy to find one deck build that basically works and try to recreate it each run, but that's pretty boring. Make yourself pick up a joker you wouldn't normally use and try to make it work. Also go for planet cards early in the run, the boost they give often moves the hand up like 4 places on the score list, making it more viable and fun to do something other than just chasing the regular high scoring hands.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

There's a degree of meta progression to the enjoyable part of the game which is creating crazy joker combos, unlocking interesting decks, and watching the numbers go up. It only happens a little while into the game after what is essentially an extended tutorial. At first I thought it was too hard and kinda sucked until I unlocked more stuff and it clicked, now I have 60 hours in the game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

@Amanduh I bounced off of Balatro the first few times I tried it too. I was a little confused about what I was doing and what my end goal was. I'm honest;y not sure what clicked, but I've been hooked ever since.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It's kinda complicated I also didn't get it at first playthorugh. But more I play more I get hooked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately Facepunch don't offer a proper support for Rust on Linux mainly because EAC

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This list is badly missing Rimworld.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Kinda awkward on steamdeck no? Small screen and all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

They've made a steam deck friendly version of the UI iirc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Not at all. I heard mixed things about Rimworld on the deck. Most of it was about the controller schema.

Reality is (for me) that it plays great. The controls by default are well assigned and it works well.

The screen size isn’t an issue for me either. It’s mostly subjective but for me it’s a knock out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It’s the same games for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I've been gaming fairly strictly on deck for everything, even if I have to trial and error a custom control scheme. That said, I'm switching to desktop for bg3. I keep missing details that actually have visual cues I didn't know about until someone actually pointed them out to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is only because they exclude me as an outlier putting in ten thousand hours of Project Zomboid on the Deck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do you really have 10000 hours playing PZ on the deck or just overall playing the game? I mean, the deck came out two years ago, seems highly unlikely you put all those hours on the deck specifically.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm exaggerating for comedic effect. I have ~300 hours in PZ all on the Steam Deck. Not the game I was expecting to play on it but it works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah, from what I played of it back in the day it does not strike me as deck friendly but good to know it works well on the deck

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you only sleep 8 hours a day, you could get 10,000 hours in a year. That doesn't account for working, bathing, or other tasks that may interfere with Precious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

No, you can't. A year has 8760 hours

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Definitely gonna have to install NV on my deck that finally arrived yesterday and see how good it is on deck... even though I am still nowhere near done with my melee build on my desktop and will need to copy all my bug fixing mods and settings from there as well.

Maybe I'll do an unarmed build where I side with Yes Man while taking out as many factions as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Never played FNV before and just killed Vulpes Inculta in Nipton and the game got so hard after this. I wouldn't have played FNV if it wasn''t for the Steam Deck, but it's great so far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Pissing off the legion is one of my favorite things to do in every playthrough. I'll take the chance to shoot those jerks every single chance I get.

It's so much fun to randomly get ganked because a group of legionaries pops out of the trees. You'd think my followers would be a good distraction, but they really gun for you after you brain Volpes and [redacted].

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Laughs in ED-E/Boone overwatch squad

Those two will drop incoming Legion goons from outside of render range. Boone will jump-scare me with sudden camera pans to exploding Legion heads while I didn't even know combat was happening.

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