Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month, sorted by playtime.
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- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Starfield
- Cyberpunk 2077
- ELDEN RING
- ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
- Stardew Valley
- Sea of Stars
- No Man’s Sky
- Vampire Survivors
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- DAVE THE DIVER
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Brotato
- Slay the Spire
- Fallout 4
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- Hades
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Top 20 Steam Deck games of September 2023, by hours played
Thanks for that. Really hate images that are just data… :(
Don’t hate me bro :)
No hate. Just disappointment at inaccessibility :) I can’t read the picture. But I can read the text. That’s why.
The post you replied to saying “don’t hate me bro” has an image of Data from Star Trek TNG (you had said that you hate images that are only data)
:)
Isn’t there a bot for that?
I see no such bot comment. Do you?
Not what i said. I mean it in an isnt there a bot that could do that task automatically . Like the summary bot.
Sounds like something that needs a bot. Transcribing every meme you want to post and source is just asinine lol.
This is not a meme though…
Not really the point either is it? It’s about technical ability, not what the image says.
Reviews of starfield on steamdeck: probably not the best experience maybe stick to more powerful devices
Average Steamdeck user: fuckin watch me, peasant.
I wonder if hours spent playing using Remote Play on the Deck counts towards the total.
While I prefer Sunrise/Moonlight, playing Starfield using streaming off your main gaming PC is a pretty good experience!
Moonlight is unreasonably capable. I initially dismissed it when I had shoddy performance between a wireless desktop and the steam deck. Then I set up tailscale and tried it outside the home during a lunch break, it was impossibly smooth. I thought maybe it was something to do with the fiber at my work. So I tried it at a friend’s place in the next town over with the same ISP, impossibly smooth.
Now I’m in the process of overhauling my home network to figure out why it’s better outside my home.
I’ve had the same experience with steam remote play, it works flawlessly outside my house, even off a hotspot from my phone! but in my house it’s dog water, feels more like playing a slideshow built for the Gameboy advance
It’s probably a result of wireless interference somewhere between the deck and the desktop. I also had a really bad experience with remote play and sunlight/moonlight before I hardwired my desktop to the router via an Ethernet cable. Just making that one part of the chain wired completely solved my issues.
Yeah OSI model says to check the connection between access point and deck. I remember back when I used the Steam Link to stream to my living room from my wireless desktop I would actually get better performance if the Steam Link was wireless point blank from the access point than if it was connected via Ethernet.
Hmm, because that makes me wonder if they also count it as a play for the host machine.
Also, how common is steamlink use? Would love to see how much it’s utilised on the deck/steam in general. I tried it myself but unless your host is connected over Ethernet it’s a bit on the slow side.
My thoughts exactly.
I absolutely love my Steam Deck. But playing even Cyberpunk on it made me run back to my PC.
I wonder how many steamdecks are owned by people who dont have another option for a gaming device that supports games like Cyberpunk and Starfield.
My lil bro is playing starfield on the steamdeck rn since he can’t play it on his main PC tbf.
Yea that’s might be it, it is the case for me at least. Cyberpunk 2.0 and BG runs quite okay for me on Steam deck, so I am not compelled to update my PC yet.
Of course on PC it would always be much better, but I am holding on to setup a home office in my apartment first and that might not happen soon.
So proud of Skyrim, GTA-V and Fallout-4 holding strong decades after their release. They could be the most played games of the century
I think their age is also an advantage on the Deck. Since the requirements are lower they run better then new AAA games.
Dave the Diver is such a gem
I played about 8 games in a row that I couldn’t get into until I found this one. It is definitely enjoyable.
One Day I will finish Cookie Clicker. One day I will be free.
I installed a mod that didn’t play super well with my other mods. It got me to finally say I was done.
Starfield ? How ?
It’s just for one month
But how can a steamdeck run starfield ?
Keep in mind, theres a giant community behind yhe steamdeck, and if a game allows mods(especially bethesdas), theres always a modder who has a modlist for tweaks specifically for the deck.
I think it runs almost playably out of the box, so I would imagine it would work actually playably with a few mods, e.g. to adjust settings not accessible through graphics presets and to enable disk I/O cache.
On low, but pretty well.
upscaling algos
The benefit of a smaller screen is that you need less resolution to make it look half decent and with all the optimizing valve does with proton i imagine its quite playable. But the way graphics where implemented in star-field is shit and there are no excuses.
It looks a bit🥔 and requires some ini file tweaking, but I can get get playable FPS out of it, 30-ish for the most part
Good point
Poorly
I really want to enjoy games like Fallout or GTA on the Deck but compared to mouse/keyboard it’s just really bad. I cannot understand how so many people like to play games like CoD or Battlefield on consoles.
I usually use gamepad controls and try and shoehorn gyro as mouse input. Doesn’t always work but when it does it’s really decent for FPS all things considered.
Keyboard and mouse just feels like work. Give me a controller for FPSes any day of the week.
I hope you like looking at ceilings and floors a lot
I don’t play CoD, I play Halo without cross play. Nothing beats the feel of a controller.
If you think precision in aim is a bad thing, sure.
I can always tell when a user is on a controller.
I don’t play against keyboards generally. But yeah precision in aiming is a bad thing if I have to slap a whopping keyboard on my lap when I’m shooting people on my sofa.
I’d prefer to be on the couch instead of at the desk, too. But FPS with controller is just worlds below mouse and keyboard.
I think people are spoiled. I grew up with Goldeneye on the N64. Modern FPS controls really aren’t that bad
That wasn’t an easy game. But it didn’t require the accuracy today’s competitive FPS shooters do. Even Duke Nukem 3D was pretty cool back then. Was super easy to hit your targets though.
I just had this horrific dream where my mouse input was functioning like a controller. I think it was PTSD from the days of aiming more with the characters movement than the joysticks.
Still dominated though. Headshots ftw
Aim assist
Average steam deck
OK Sisyphus
Hades was so good
Crazy that Binding of Isaac is still in there, it’s been years since the last release and it’s not really in the public consciousness the same way something like Vampire Survivors is. Fantastic game though, happy to see it continue to succeed
I wish it would go on sale… ever. I’ve bought it multiple times across several platforms now, I really don’t want to spend $60 trying to get all the DLC on PC
Edmund said there’s will be a normal online coop, finally.
Elden Ring is approaching 2 years in a few months and I can’t believe it’s still going this strong.
Skyrim came out in 2011, sir
Binding of Isaac wants to know your location
Wait starfield works on SD? I thought it was too slow. Has there been a new patch?
I played like 80 hours on steam deck. I don’t think it’s as optimized as Todd claims (RDR2 is much older and looks much better), but it plays alright.
No mods or anything, just settings tweaks.
I did not know you could play with a controller on PC. Is thist a steam customization for the deck ? (When I plug my xbox controller nothing happens in control settings or anywhere)
It is weird it doesn’t work for you. I always use my Xbox controller when I play games on my pc with a very few exceptions because of the need of hot keys. I am playing with a Xbox one controller with Bluetooth. Before did I use a Xbox 360 controller with wire until it started to not listen to me anymore (dead zone grew and dpad was always unsure what direction I clicked).
It isn’t a steam thing. But steam do have configurations so you can change the layout if you wish. For me is it plug and play but you can check out their documentation. They have a section at the bottom how you connect USB, wireless and Bluetooth.
I honestly couldn’t tell you how it works. Maybe check input settings in game? The game isn’t verified on deck so I wouldn’t think steam has done anything specific to make the controller work.
I actually went on vacation the day it released. I installed it on my deck to be able to play when at the hotel. I put 14 hours in starfield on my deck. It’s PLAYABLE but not really ENJOYABLE. You have to turn it down to almost the lowest setting to play it reliably.
I found it playable but being completely honest, the graphic settings are the lowest and while it looks fine enough for things nearby… shooting at enemies more than a few meters away means aiming under their name. Due to dumb circumstances making my gaming pc unavailable, I’m currently playing it “on my Mac” through GeForce Now.
It’s impressive to me that games made by small teams or solo artists are going toe to toe with games made by the entire Western hemisphere. Stardew Valley is being played more than RDR2?
A graphically demanding game being high on this list is more impressive to me. BG3 looks like a claymation game on the deck, I wasn’t expecting it to be anywhere near as high.
I had no idea vampire survivor was such a hit. Feels like that would be a great handheld game.
It’s available on mobile apps stores I believe.
It runs fine in a browser for free as well.
I feel good for CDPR. They fumbled the launch of Cyberpunk, but people are still playing the crap out of it, so I guess they handled it well in the end. It must be horrible to have worked on a game for years, only for it to blow up the way Cyberpunk did.
Edit: Though I suppose the launch was only “fumbled” on last gen hardware.
The media outrage was disproportionate and completely disconnected from how it actually worked. It was a success from the start. As you said, the fumble was on consoles mostly.
It’s certainly good though that they worked so long to make it even better IMO.
Revisionism so blatant it could run for office in a red state.
Hahaha look at the steam stats for example before talking shit.
Like that proves anything, lol, gamers eat shit with a grin every day.
Sure, whatever
Slay the spire is too good.
