Some games I’d rather play on PC for various reasons (immersion, control scheme, etc), but then some games felt just right to play on the Deck, Blasphemous, Pentiment, Citizen Sleeper…
I’m looking for more games like that, ideally 20-30 hours to complete, easy to pick up and put down, and good performance
No Mans Sky. Plays great on the deck and flying with a controller feels better than keyboard and mouse.
Agree on Pentiment and Citizen Sleeper, I played them in bed before going to sleep. Another game I played the same way and loved was Heaven’s Vault. If you don’t have a problem with using the touchpads instead, Roadwarden is a good one too, text heavy but quite interesting IMHO.
Instead of a gaming computer, the last time I had some spare cash, I built a NAS. When I had a little again, but not enough to really build out a high end rig, I got the OLED Deck and immediately bought Factorio. I’d been binging Factorio content, recently found some channels like Dosh Doshington, DocJade, etc and knew I wanted in. For a PC game, that really wants a keyboard and mouse, it plays friggin fantastic on Deck.
More recently, because I was watching SMW romhack players a while back and Pangaea Panga just released Super Dram World 3, I’ve gone all in on learning Kaizo Mario games. Panga’s “Kaizo Kindergarten” is a great intro, along with “2Kaizo2Learn.” “Joy of Kaizo” is a beautiful dedication to Bob Ross’ “Joy of Painting” where level backgrounds are recreations of paintings from actual episodes of the show. It also features difficulty options and the beginner mode is pretty noob friendly. At least for someone like me who hasn’t played SMW since my SNES was hooked up in the 90s. Anyway, if you’ve fond memories of SMW it’s almost a crime not to revisit it and its hacks, either on a Deck or any portable emulator.
Brotato…so much Brotato…
BallisticNG
Cato: buttered cat and Pipistrello and the cursed yo-yo
Master Key - a little zelda-like (old school zelda) which was kind of a surprise find for me but got me hooked quite a bit. Very well suited to be played on the deck 🎮
I dusted off Anodyne even i got my deck, loved it.
It looks lovely, reminds me of Minit haha
Well, any 2D indie game with controller support is perfect for the deck: (Like the hollow Knight series, or Hades).
Got Hi-Fi Rush on sale. And the inputs feel much better than on my PC (I blame my Bluetooth controller).
Want something with a classic feel (other than emulators)? “Heretic + Hexen” (for some doom-like action) and the Soul Reaver remaster play really well (and I got that one on GoG).
I have more, but those are the ones I play exclusively on my deck, now.
Were Heretic and Hexen remastered? I’ll get them if so. Heretic was the first game I played multiplayer on a PC, before we even had Internet. My friend hosted a game across town and I dialed into his PC with a modem. Blew our parents’ minds.
Hades 2
It wasn’t a single game, it was switching so easily between something deeply engaging like Disco Elysium, and something that made me feel like it was the grown-up grandchild of a gameboy, specifically Brotato. I have so many hours in Brotato. Send help
I might cheat a bit here, but for me its emulation with RetroArch since launch! I love the additional trackpads that give me features not possible on a regular gamepad. I setup my own menus and functionality. Can’t wait for the official Steam Controller (2) to launch, so I can use this on my PC too.
Dredge.
Yes! The basic graphics and textures worked well on a small screen but the 3d and lighting was still a treat
Caves of Qud
Doesn’t seem like a controller friendly game at first glance, but it’s so well optimized that I cannot go back to PC with it.
I also get like 4 hours of battery life out of it, which I use up regularly.
Doesn’t seem like a controller friendly game at first glance, but it’s so well optimized that I cannot go back to PC with it.
Why don’t you use a controller on PC?
After playing CoQ with controller support I find similar games unplayably uncomfortable. It’s done so well that it’s shocking to look back at how the UI used to be and remember the game wasn’t designed from the ground up with controller in mind.
Have bought that game a while ago but never came around to play it so far. Hope I get a bit of time to spend delving into Qud during holidays.
Bring the TDP down to 6W and you’ll get at least 6.5 with no impact on gameplay
Ive been waiting for a good sale to get it, can’t wait to dive into it
Arc Raiders, Caves of Qud and Desperados 3.
CrossCode is really nice on the deck
