Steam Hardware

I've been playing a whole lot of Monster Hunter Rise. It runs really good, great performance and battery life (which makes sense considering it was originally a switch game). It's my first real Monster Hunter game and I'm having a great time with it.

Only issues I've encountered: switching between docked and handheld play causes a minor fps drop until I restart the game. The game also has a utterly bizarre bug where if you're playing with a controller designated as the 2nd player controller, any monster roar will drop the fps to 0 for like a minute. Super bizarre, no idea what kind of spaghetti code could cause that.

Edit: for anyone interested, Fanatical has a build your own monster hunter bundle right now that's an incredibly good deal. Can get MH Rise + it's big Sunbreak expansion for $11, previous best deal I had seen was $18 for the two. They also have MH World and a lot of other past MH games.

Kotor and Kotor 2! They are great on the deck!

In anticipation of the Remake I'm playing Gothic again. First a swordfighter and now as a magician.

I recently bought the Cat Quest trilogy. I played the first two on my switch but the third one just came out and Steam did the whole bundle at a discount so I snagged it. Been enjoying replaying the first two before I start on the new one.

Guardians of the Galaxy. FPS is a little sluggish especially first chapter (theres a bug where the whole screen goes black but audio goes through). However, its still fun

Also LIMBO which runs fine on the deck

Octopath 2

I've been addicted to Unrailed recently, it's genuinely a great game that (at least for me) never gets boring. I'm desperately waiting for Unrailed 2. Even the multiplayer works really well on the Steam Deck/Linux in general.

Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.

For some reason I've played Noita for the past month. Every time I've started to get bored I get a good run and the game dumps something new and interesting on my lap.

I've just started playing beam ng drive. Looks great so far, but I'm pretty shit at it.

I use moonlight to stream my pc to my steam deck. It automatically sets the resolution and refresh rate when i connect. It amazing.

I've been playing red dead redemption 2 and i just finished crime scene cleaner yesterday. and as always, genshin impact.

Elden Ring & Resident Evil 6!

Elden Ring: Man this game is so long but fun. I just can't help myself playing this game everywhere. Somehow getting my ass kicked, and winning a fight or two time to time, kills time so efficiency.

RE6: Despite it's bad rep, it's a really good game for couch coop on a TV. The performance was great, and just really enjoyable when laughing at bugs & absurd writing with friends.

Mostly only 2 games.

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers

And the recently released 4th beta for the pokemon fan game Unbreakable Ties (the English release because I'm dumb and don't know Spanish)

Sifu and Selaco

Hexologic

Peglin

Megaman Zero/ZX Collection and Persona 3 Reload

I have been playing a lot of games recently, but I think the one I want to highlight most is a game I have recommended in the past here.

Beyond All Reason is a free and open source RTS game inspired by Total Annihilation. It is based on the Spring RTS Engine and collectively BAR represents probably almost two decades of community development over the years and the game is at a really polished fun state at this point with a diverse variety of units and strategies.

The AI is good, it constantly probes your defenses, multiplayer is a blast with active lobbies, you can play PvP or PvE and there are a massive amount of maps. I know I am a weirdo but with gyro on I don't find playing Beyond All Reason difficult at all. Am I going to out APM a mouse and keyboard player? Nope, but that isn't really why I play RTS games anyways, and I can hold my own fine especially with the awesome action que system that BAR expanded on from Total Annihilation.

Honestly, I don't think you are going to find a 3D RTS game with better performance on the Deck for the insane amount of units that get thrown around in a typical BAR match than the Spring RTS Engine/BAR, it is a fairly old 3d RTS engine that by today's standards has extremely low system requirements but at the same time, everything is simulated. When a tank shoots at another tank in the Spring Engine, the tank aims and then launches a projectile... that projectile is modeled as a physical object and it may or may not hit its target. It is VERY impressive that there can be hundreds of units blasting it out on the battlefield in BAR, and the game just keeps chugging along somehow without melting my steam deck.

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

p.s. check out the new BAR trailer, can you believe this game is a free and open source game??!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_fSWfOC1w

Witcher 3 and No Man's Sky, with guest appearences of CIV 6

I’ve been passing through the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy again. It’s my favorite, and it means quite a lot to me.

Fallout 4. Recently finished trover saves the universe and super Mario wonder.

visions of mana :3

The deck is basically my balatro machine. It's great for it.

Alien Isolation has been stressing me out for 30 minutes each evening 😅