Is there a tutorial you can recommend? Not long after it came out I managed to get it running, but only in desktop mode, and input wasn't working at all.
you will need to add Yuzu as a non steam game in desktop mode then you can find it in game mode on that tab. before launching any games at least for me I have to use the touchscreen to launch them at first.
As for input, check the controller settings then go to controller layouts and the community tab, some people have made layouts for it. you might have to experiment with different ones a bit till you find one you like though.
You could try steam rom manager. It allows you to add your roms and/or emulators to your steam list from one app. It comes with emudeck but I think you can get it separately if you don't want to use the rest of emudeck features.
I just finished Ori and the Blind Forest and it was a lot of fun. Really well done game in my opinion. Similar to Hollow Knight, if you've played that.
If you haven't played Hollow Knight, play Hollow Knight.
Dave the Diver. It's not only the perfect Steam Deck game, it's contender for indie game of the year. There's just so much content and it's all so good!
It's crazy how fun this game is in short bursts but it's also scarily packed with content. I love the little animation cutscenes that they have for bancho and when fulfilling the customer requests.
I tried bringing frames down to 30 and messed a little with a custom game profile but I think I’ll have to drop graphics to medium or low for any real tangible difference. And that I’m just not willing to do! So it’s a couch outlet game for me at the moment. Fallout 4 uses less juice. Maybe it’s just poorly optimized?
Yesss, I played New Super Lucky's Tale after seeing my kid play it on the Switch. It resparked some nostalgia for classic 3D platforming so I ended up getting Spyro, Crash and Kao the Kangaroo. Been having a blast.
There are a few guides around with more detail but it's very straight forward. Also a few guides out there on how to maximize battery life. I get 2.5hrs or so, closer to 3 if I avoid towns.
I followed this guy’s YouTube tutorial to get D4 working on the steam deck. Super clear instructions and worked like a charm. I did end up tweaking the settings a bit and am not playing at 60 fps (opted for 45), but it runs great. Here’s the link for the YouTube video. https://youtu.be/zxet_LLQIwE
I recently finished psychonauts 2 on the steamdeck connected to the dock. It ran almost perfectly. Some areas that had a lot of activity would drop a bit, but overall it was an amazing experience.
It took a lot of tinkering, ngl. So far, I've gotten it to run at a pretty consistent 30fps with a bit of slowdown when going into areas for the first time due to shader compilation. Of course, big towns and such shows a bit of a slowdown as well, but nothing game breaking. I'm about a third or more through the main story all played on the Deck. Here's a list of things I've done to get it playable:
Installed Yuzu via EmuDeck. For whatever reason, I couldn't even launch the game using the standard flatpak version/package version.
Dynamic 30fps Patch. I tried the 60fps version, but since the game never gets much above 30, I went with the 30fps version since it was noticeably smoother.
Ran CryoUtilities and let it do its optimizations (increasing vram actually makes the game run worse due to there being less ram. This game/emulator is very memory hungry it seems so skip that one.)
I use the PowerTools plugin from Decky to set the hardware scheduler to performance mode. I've also played around with increasing minimum CPU clock speeds, but I can't seem to make a difference with those. There were some rumors about disabling the "Odd Number" core option that helped performance, but I didn't notice a difference with the current EA build of Yuzu. that turned out to be true.
Using the normal Power Options, force the GPU clock speed to max (1600).
Running EA Yuzu in Vulkan mode
I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I sourced the game from a specific girl who claims to be fit and likes to repackage things.
A quick note : I'm also running Release 1.0 since whenever I try to upgrade to 1.1, I get an infinite black loading screen. I think this has to do with where I got the 1.0 release from, but I'm not sure. Supposedly, 1.1 has some bug fixes and performance fixes as well, but I'm too far into the game to worry about getting it working at this point.
All of this is purely hypothetical, though, obviously.
American Truck Simulator. And I can't stop. I don't know why it's so enjoyable. I have a huge backlog of games to play, but instead I've got a load of Amonium Nitrate to haul to Barstow, CA.
ATS and ETS2 are like my therapy. I don't even play the actual game part with operating a business etc, I just like driving and seeing the scenery. Put on some instrumental drum n bass background music and turn my brain off for an hour.
Some of the mods are great, too. Driving through the desert and past the pyramids in Egypt is something else.
No Man's Sky, lots of No Man's Sky this last month. Monster Hunter World is installed and ready to go... but I just need to finish something in No Man's Sky first.
For a smaller Indie title, I was playing Aground before the latest NMS community expedition.
My daughter has been borrowing it to play The Lake, and my son and I have been playing Nickelodeon Brawl and Nickelodeon Carts on it.
I was addicted to no man's sky for a while, plays great on the deck. I took a black hole somewhere and then had an existential crisis wondering what I was doing it there in the universe and left myself stranded lost somewhere I didn't know
Absolutely! Have been really wanting something to follow up my Dredge addiction this past winter, and this seems perfect. Love how there's constantly new stuff happening. The core gameplay loop is perfectly sound as well.
Still the greatest Roguelike IMO, the variety and unlockables are through the roof, and while RNG is a big part anything can still be overcome with enough raw skill
Great. It has native support, only the menus and inventory are a little wonky, since you have to navigate the cursor with the sticks but I just mapped the right touchpad as mouse and problem solved.
Just finished Doom 2016. Really fun and also to train gyro aiming. Started Wolfenstein new order, but I'm kinda not hooked, probably because gameplay is slower then Doom. Got Dandy Ace in the sale, may just play that for a while.
Also finished Cult of the lamb and tomb raider earlier.
Itching to get diablo 4, but then I won't play anything else and I still have many games I want to try/finish.
Going to move onto doom 2016 once I've finished bully
One thing I'm worried about is how exhausting the game can be.. I've played a mission or two and after the mission I'm left drained with hesitation of starting the next mission lol.. such an intense game
Anyway, hope to have some fun with it once I get onto it
I don't think it's that short if you factor in the completion aspect. Getting both endings took me 7 hours, and completing will probably be another 12 if I choose to go that route.
For $25 I don't think it's that bad, but I'm pretty biased in preference of quality to quantity.
How is your performance? Are you in desktop outputting to 1080p or are you just in game mode outputting 800p to the TV? I have death stranding on PS5 but I've shelved it to get back to my PC collection and I'm looking to purchase death stranding ce during the summer sale.
I'm not streaming from Desktop. Steam Deck supports resolution up to 4K when docked so you won't be playing at 800p too. Not sure if you already know the following but there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding this topic so I'll share my experience here in the hope that it'd help clear things up for someone. Below is the tinkering process that works for me:
Go to Steam - Settings - Display - External Display. If you have a 4K TV and want the game to run in 4K, leave Automatically Set Resolution on (because there's no option to pick 4K in custom resolution for reasons unknown to me). If you want a lower resolution, turn off Automatically Set Resolution and pick the res you want.
Go to Library, click on the game then go to Settings - Properties - Game Resolution and set it to Native.
Start the game, set res in the game to the a res lower than what you set in system display. For example if you have a 4K TV and set res to auto in system display, you'd want to set it as 2560x1440 in game. If you set 1920x1080 in system display, set it to 720 in game. Next step will explain why.
Open your quick access menu (the physical 3 dots button under the right controller pad), scroll down to battery icon and go to Scaling Filter and slide it to FSR if it's not already in this mode. What this does is that it will scale your in game res to match your system res with very little impact on your game performance.
You'll get about 20fps at 4K, and around 30fps at QHD(2560x1440). Personally I left it at QHD and it has mostly been running very smoothly except for the occasional crashes... Just make sure you save your game regularly.
So far any of those games perform really well. Especially RDR2 is nice to play. The visuals of that game are stunning, but then again Death Stranding is nothing to sneeze at, too
Playing a ton of Diablo IV - runs great, but I’m still on a quest to find the most optimal (for me) settings. And I just picked up Horizon Chase, Dredge, and Dave the Diver. I’ve played a few races in Horizon Chase and am debating between starting one of the other two. But between ToTK on my Switch and D4, it’s hard to make the time for everything I want to enjoy!
All the buzz around Diablo 4 got me thinking about my favorite aRPG, Titan Quest, which led me to Grim Dawn, which I have been having a great time playing through for the first time on my Deck.
I've been having a blast with it on the deck! Some navigation issues in the UI is really the only complaint I had, and that was easy enough to fix with remapping.
Excellent game and I can't believe I haven't played it until now.
I've played every game in the series for countless hours and continuously throughout my life come back to 2. Playing 4 right now, but I keep finding myself wanting to quit and play 2. Also the remaster is incredibly well done.
You can install the blizzard launcher from the desktop in the deck, add it as a non steam game then do the same thing for Diablo 2 once blizzard downloads it. I forget the actual steps, but I followed a guide online.
I've played through the newer tomb raider games and they're great, same with horizon zero dawn and Control. Being able to turn on gyro aiming while a arrow is notched or your gun is raised makes those kinds of games really fun.
It's so worth it, gyro aiming makes life so much better. Any game where you aim using the left trigger is perfect for it. You just set your gyro trigger to activate on trigger pull. Tuning it can be a bit tricky, and I found for Control specifically it didn't like mouse input from the gyro, I had to trial and error the aiming. Tomb raider had gyro aiming by default.
Honestly I'm quite surprised many people sleep on the trackpads, combined with the plethora of binding options it's closer to a mouse and keyboard than you'd think.
I used the steam controller for many years for FPS games, it does an excellent job.
Combine it with a gyro and I've seen people use it viably on competitive shooters.
Fallout 4. Its the first game I thought of when the Deck was announced and hoped it would be playable. I haven't been disappointed after 8 hrs on my Deck.
I bought it a week ago and had buggy dialogue, soft locks, etc. in the house and at the gate to the vault. It was insanely broken. A fresh reinstall did nothing. Ended up refunding and buying Fallout 3, which has been fun so far. No clue why 4 was just busted for me.
I picked up Ruined King and Midnight Suns at 50/60% off respectively. Haven't played MS yet, but ruined King is cool so far. I've never played league of legends so I know absolutely nothing about the characters, but the game play is solid. Similar to Battlechasers (same devs!) But a lot more refined and polished.
Tinykin - A platformer with a dash of Pikmin. Like, a very small dash. Some reviews way overplay the Pikmin aspect. It's more of a collectathon platformer, and the Tinykin are more or less just abilities you need to collect in every level. There's no strategy and you're not at risk of losing them unnecessarily. There's enough to collect everything in every level. I loved the game, but it's not Pikmin.
Pokemon Luminescent Platinum - It's a BDSP (specifically BD) mod that makes the games Platinum with some additional QoL stuff like a built in level cap so you don't get overpowered, additional moves and Pokemon, and just a ton of stuff. It's very good.
GTA 5, world of tanks, simrail, NFS underground 2 and have dabbled with assetto corsa running on proton (little bit wack and doesnt run content manager yet)
Dying light. I bought it on sale years ago and couldn't really get into it. I think the combat just takes a while to get into. Plus, I don't think it's really meant for keyboard and mouse.
I love it on the deck. It runs great and looks amazing for an 8 yr old game.
Mostly easy going and lighthearted games: Omno, Lil Gator Game, FAR: Lone Sails, Alba: a wildlife adventure, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Art of Rally. Next: Planet of Lana.
I snagged Marvel Midnight Suns two days ago and I am HOOKED. I love card builder roguelites and this game added another layer of interactivity with 3D positioning and environmental attacks.
I also adore the Persona style relationship sim going on. A big part of why I love the MCU is the personality and relationships between characters, so having the Persona r/ship sim going on is a perfect addition to the game!
Skyrim (two-handed Orc barbarian/bandit that despises magic, so goes out of his way to not use anything enchanted and kill magic users) and Fallout 3 for the first time to hold off my Starfield hype (on Series X)
Also bought a ton of rogue-likes this weekend from the sale - Hades, Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire, and Dead Cells. Never played Hades until now and it's amazing, of course. The rest I've played a bit, but not a ton for each of them, so it's fun getting into them all. I think these style games are some of the best for the Deck.
Friend recommended Halls of Torment because he knew I liked Vampire Survivors. Quite enjoying it so far, I think it improves VS in some ways and gives it a Diablo 1 aesthetic.
Just finished Jedi Fallen Order and now I'm again stuck to Hades and Brotato.
I've lend it to my girlfriend for an evening and she tried some "Weeb" games especially Atelier Ryza and ordered herself a Deck now to since it's summer sale :)
Worked great for me. I've set the screen resolution to 800x500 in the steam game settings to force FSR. I've had some trouble at first because i left half rate shading on.
I haven't played the whole way through, but so far, no problems on Steam OS.
There are quite a few games that I find run okay on the Deck, even though they show up as unsupported. An examole of this is Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, which I'm playing right now. YMMV with Unsupported games, of course. :)
How does Legend play on the Deck? I've played the whole of the new trilogy and up to 3 of the old ones (all of them before I got the Deck). And I wanna get into that "middle trilogy" too, the Deck sounds like a nice fit for those games.
Also, the main menu doesn’t work with controller inputs. I just mapped the Enter and Esc keys to back buttons, and then use the right trackpad as the mouse.
Plays flawlessly on about 3w of power (so your battery will last a good while).
I’m about half way through now. When you configure it, turn off the “Next Gen Graphics” or you’ll get a fatal error next time you try to load your save.
The story is nonsense, the art style is meh, the translation is challenging.
But goddamn the combat and build variety/experimentation is through the roof.
All I've been wanting to play lately are trpgs. And after having finished most of the major players in the genre (Shadowrun Trilogy, X-Coms, Wasteland 3, Pillars, Mechanics, Midnight Suns, Daemonhunters, Rome, etc.) I've been really starved for passable games.
I feel like Troubleshooter can stand with the best of them. I'm like 50 hours in and don't feel like I've even scratched the surface.
Can't wait til Showgunners drops in price a bit and Broken Roads / Lamplighter's League comes out.
Yakuza 6. It can't reach 60 FPS, but if you cap it to 30 it's pretty stable and only needs like 15W, despite looking pretty nice.
I'd want to play System Shock on the Deck, but the devs are too dumb to figure out how cloud saving works, so alas.
Haha, well maybe a bit heretical considering this declares itself to be the successor to steamdeck_linux and not even just steamdeck. Guess I wouldn't worry about it too much though.
Docked: Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Perfect for laying in bed, has a near auto-battle combat system between cutscenes that i can enjoy comfortably.
Undocked: Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I'm trying to get all the achievements via RetroAchievements and am at the point where it's just grinding so it works elegantly for those random chances I find to put some playtime in. I played through the story, which was great btw, mostly docked.
How do you handle multiple games at once? I'm also trying to play most of my worthwhile games to at least finish the main storyline/quests.
I feel like I would forget about a game as soon as I start another game. then I have to restart the save because I forgot all the controls
I focus on one game at a time but it sometimes gets a little mind numbing playing the same game for nearly 100hours.. stardew valley I intended to finish everything possible but I got tired and moved on after about 80 hours. (I've completed what's considered the main story but was going to try complete everything after)
How do you handle multiple games at once? I'm also trying to play most of my worthwhile games to at least finish the main storyline/quests.
I try to games that don't have overlapping mechanics: if I'm in the mood for a puzzle, I play Baba is You. If I want something more casual, I play Sonic Racing.
I feel like I would forget about a game as soon as I start another game. then I have to restart the save because I forgot all the controls
Sometimes I do forget games, but I don't mind if that happens. Some games just don't stick. I try to buy games only when on discount, so I don't feel bad if I stop playing it.
I usually complete games, but never to 100%. What attracts me to a game is not usually what's involved in getting to 100% (e.g. I like the Arkham series just for gliding and stealth, so I don't bother with the Riddler collectibles)
Tunic
Brotato
Anno Mutationem
I'm loving bringing party games with me, been introducing a lot of folks to Stick Fight, Jackbox, Death Road to Canada, Broforce, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
I recently just bought Zuma Deluxe from the summer sale because of nostalgia. It's a bit tough to use the trackpad initially but you end up getting used to it. Other than that, I emulated Animal Crossing
I finally got back to Tunic after a few months' break. Ended up finding a page and an item I had missed, and then it was smooth sailing to the next (second?) boss, which I found to be a super fun fight.
How does it run on Deck? I tried it briefly on Xbox thanks to Gamepass. The game looks lovely, the first hour or so was fun. It feels like a perfect deck game, but only if the performance is stable.