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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the April 2024, sorted by playtime
Hades and Isaac are surprising. They're both old enough that I would have thought they wouldn't be flush with players right now. The fallout stuff makes sense, given its fanbase and the show's influence. I wonder if I should go back and try to 100% either of them now...
I think news of Hades 2 development might be sparking some interest
I don't have a Steam Deck, but those are just famous games regardless. For example, I play TW3 and SDV.
Yeah and they are able to be played on a Steam Deck, which is pretty neat.
I just wonder why people are torturing themselves with BG3 on the Deck. I started playing it but decided not to ruin my experience and switched to a PC
It runs great. No idea what your issue is.
How are the controls? I assumed, it was mainly a keyboard+mouse game.
Ok, what am I doing wrong that Fallout 3 isn't working? It just crashes on start.
When I got the Steam Deck I had to install and set up FNV. Once I did that, F3 would work. I would have assumed they had fixed that since then but maybe not? Worth a try.
It seemed to be because the pre-launch scripts weren’t executing. Installing the other game ran similar scripts which fixed it somehow.
FNV worked OOTB.
Helldivers 2 on higher difficulties has me hitting 15fps sometimes. It's so damn tough to play on steam deck because of the quality, but it's honestly amazing it runs half decent at all.
I only play on 5 and below on the Deck.
The biggest surprise is fallout 76. I thought it was universally disliked? Is it the fallout TV show causing it?
Considering every Fallout game from the last two decades made top 20, I'd say yeah it's probably the show lol.
It has a really bad release. A few patches in, it turned into a good enough game. It's still nowhere near as good as the heyday of Fallout with 2 and Tactics, but it's a good enough game.
I tried playing it, at least a year after release? And within minutes I had no idea what I was supposed to "do" to where to "go" - it just dropped you. I mean to a point that's "open world", a genre I enjoy, but something was just missing.
The TV show for sure helps. But people are playing it because they like it. There was a ton of work put into the game since its original release.
Surprised to see The Witcher 3 still on that list. And the fact that Stardew Valley is number one also is surprising to me.
It would have been interesting to see the actual total hours for each game as well.
Stardew valley released a new version recently and there are a lot of mods for it
I played the entire game through on the deck. It played excellently.
I played the entire game through on the deck. It played excellently.
Nice! I've been meaning to give it a try, but I never get around to doing it. I'll have to make more of an effort.
Yeah it was a blast, like, incredibly pleasurable to play.
The controller layout and the steam deck layout just mapped excellently. Everything felt incredibly organic, almost as if the game was designed for the deck.
I'm on BG3 now and its not nearly as good of an experience. The graphics feel lacking compared to W3. I'm not sure I've got it tuned correctly. The key mapping is 'so so'; I play city skylines and its way better mapping for a mouse based click and do stuff game.
The key mapping / controller layout and zoom / perspective questions are the make it or break it for any game on deck. I really like the steam deck controller set up (in-spite of the fact that before the deck, I'm almost exclusively a keyboard and mouse gamer). I like how flexible the set up is, but I feel like not enough games are taking advantage of the options and the community layouts are hit and miss.
Stardew Valley just got a huge update recently, I don't find it that surprising! It's a great update.
Stardew Valley just got a huge update recently, I don’t find it that surprising! It’s a great update.
Ah okay. I just assumed it was the next Minecraft for kids and that's why it's population/popularity was hanging on at a high level.
I have like 2k hours in that game. It's insanely deep with a chill gameplay loop. I've exclusively played single-player.
It’s insanely deep with a chill gameplay loop. I’ve exclusively played single-player.
I'll have to get off my ass and try playing it, been seeing it around forever.