Steam Hardware

Fallout 3.

I spent the time to learn how to make action layers, radial menus, and multi-action keys. It's great! (Emulating mouse/kb controls)

• Holding L2 for sights/scopes enables gyro aiming.
• X button presses Ctrl and Caps Lock at the same time to toggle both crouching and walking. (I will disable Caps Lock once I take the Silent Running perk.)
• Holding L1 enables an action layer that changes nearly every control:
  • Right stick becomes a radial menu for item hotkeys, 1-8
  • X presses Caps Lock alone to toggle walk-run by itself
  • Y is hotkey 8, which is my hotkey for Stimpack. It's easier to hit in an emergency than the radial menu.
  • B becomes X (keyboard) for exiting shops
  • Right trackpad become a a scroll wheel for menus

Stuff like that. Basically, I have every important keyboard key mapped somehow. I have the E key mapped two different ways. R3 for just opening doors and such where aiming isn't important. And L4 for when I'm using the right trackpad as mouse for carefully picking up individual items like bottlecaps, Nuke Colas and such that are often surrounded by junk. Same with landmines.

It's not as good as a real kb/mouse, but it's much better than the default XBox 360 controls. Steam Input is so amazing.

Playing a lot of Jump Space and Deep Rock Galactic with friends.

Single player, Baldur's Gate 3 continues to be my long haul game, and Brotato and Balatro remain my "20 free minutes to game" games

I'm about 90 hours into Silksong. Before that, it was hollow knight.

Until now, I'd never played metroidvanias or souslikes - mostly idle games, FPS' and RPGs. I might get more into them now. I've been eyeing animal well.

Dead Cells 😍

Welp, I just played Stardew Valley again 😁

Recently finished another playthrough of Half-Life 2, and now I'm back on Hades (not 2, waiting for that to go on sale). I've just had the first successful run but I've got a long way to go before I'm up to the same point I was at on the Xbox.

Lollipop Chainsaw RePopped

It's so silly

Finally finished Death Stranding. On to Hades 2.

I just finished Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter yesterday, so I haven't fully settled into what to play next. I think I'll go through my installed games and try to finish some games I was enjoying but never finished all the way, like Ys 9 and 1000xResist.

Assassins creed: valhalla for the big stints.
And knights of tight spaces for when I think it's a short stint and ends up playing it for a few hours.

Playing Metroid Dread right now, not having much fun though. Might quit and start play Ratchet and clank a rift apart tomorrow if things doesn't get any better.

The Gunk. I played through it on game pass a few years ago. I was just telling someone about it and then saw that it was only like $3 on Steam, so I bought it. It's so pretty, and looks great on the deck. I love the voice work, too. And cleaning up the gunk feels so therapeutic right now.

Ball X Pit

Spelunky 2 with mods.

ESO, but in desktop mode. Otherwise, Disco Elysium when I'm on the go.

Megabonk and Peglin

Hades 2 (last achievements) and "I was a teenage exocolonist" to play on my own.

"Look outside" to play with my spouse, sharing the controller and suffering from the horrible key mapping, but the game itself is nice!

Mass Effect 2 for the second time years after playing it on Playstation 3

Huntdown It's a really fun, well put together run 'n' gunner reminiscent of the 80's 32 bit era. I'm having a blast with it. All the boss fights are totally unique.

Mostly 9Kings. One round is typically 20 mins, which suits me

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784470/9_Kings/

Megabonk and Hades, I love both of them so much right now

Getting back into FFXIV

Had very little time to play, so it's:

• Brotato
• Snø
• ΔV - Rings of Saturn

a lot of Hades 2. like a LOT 😅

quite a bit of modded Terraria and a little bit of WoW every now and then casually.

Cyberpunk. I started it a few months ago, got bored about ten hours in and put it down, played Prey (which was fuckin great!) then I went back to cyberpunk and got the taste. I'm almost 200 hrs in at the mo and loving it. Got a couple more jobs to do then I'm starting the Dogtown stuff. Impressive how well it plays on steam deck.

• binding of Isaac repentance+
• trackmania
• deep rock galactic survivor
• Ovis loop
• tunic

Recently finished Ultros. Started playing The Drifter.

Pacific Drive, Whispers in the wood DLC.

Finally they added something that will actively chase you and act like a stalker type enemy(stop at nothing). You can crank up both your car and the enemy's speed to make chasing super tense.

The atmosphere and sound design are even more spooky, fantastic stuff.

The story's main character is a bit chatty, but I think sells the "mad cultist" impression pretty well.

Performance wise: Using lossless framegen 2x to pull the framerate up from 30 to 60. Pixel rendering in this game is cheap, so no amount of lowering resolution will boost much performance.

Grapple Dog and Yakuza 5. Grapple dog is more short sessions than Yakuza, so I'm playing that a bit more.

Öoo was a nice quick play. Logic Bombs is a brutal puzzler with a fantastic Gameboy rom included.

The Last Sovereign, using a walkthrough. Some battles are hard. I had to use RpgMakerSaveEdit on my windows machine because I didn't buy enough items and to buy equipment needed for a battle.