Just interested to see what y'all like playing portably!
Came back to Slay the Spire to beat the game with some of the other characters. It’s great on steam deck and the iOS app is nice too. The whole card game concept has finally clicking with me as I realize I should endeavor to make my deck as small as possible, not as large, so have started skipping most card rewards and removing cards from my deck as much as possible. This means the cards I actually want to play will come up more times.
It really took me a while to figure out that removing cards from your deck is a good thing most of the time. Balatro works the same way.
Creating custom wrestlers in WWF No mercy (N64)
Got a huge crusty guy that I named "General Strike"
I was playing MHGU but I fucking hate the Nibelsnarf fight so I have taken a hiatus.
The Legend Of Zelda TOTK using an emulator, with some mods for optimization to get quasi stable 25-30 fps
I'm playing Castlevania Symphony of the Night for the first time on my phone. I do connect my Bluetooth controller for boss fights, because the touchscreen controls are jank if I really need fine control. It's crazy how much stuff is in this game, and the sprite work is unreal.
Soundtrack is amazing. I have a bright green Greatest Hits copy that is sitting in a shoebox in my closet waiting to be replayed.
Elden ring plays fine on the steam deck? If so damn I need to get one
Yes!
Mostly low/medium settings, drop the resolution to 1024x960, enable FSR in the Deck’s settings, cap the framerate to 45 FPS and it’ll mostly stay there.
I’m usually really sensitive to anything below 60fps but for some reason it feels very smooth and playable this way.
It plays okay ish on low settings in docked mode. I wouldn't try it in handheld. 20-30fps usually. All my 500 hours are not on deck although a healthy portion of them are.
It's fine handheld. Medium-low settings maintains mostly locked 30 fps (frequently in the 40s if unlocked), chokes a bit in some of the DLC areas, but usually fine there too. Might have a harder time trying to be a SL1 parry god but otherwise perfectly playable.
As far as I know there's no difference between handheld and plugged in with the Deck, it doesn't throttle/lower settings to save power automatically like the Switch does.
Try dropping the resolution to 1024x960 and using FSR, game will run at 45fps most of the time.
I've seen a difference in some games handheld, but I haven't tried elden ring so good to know it runs fine there.
I don't think I've ever got more than 100 hours in a game before. It must be really good.
I just really like the genre. If you add up all my time in the souls games it is in the thousands. I'm not even that good I just really like them
There are tons, haha, but I'm currently playing Fear & Hunger. MAJOR CW on that one, of every type, but it's a dark mess I can't help but want to push deeper into the dungeon.
Signalis was amazing, the anticommunism was cringe but the personal story being told made me ball my eyes out.
Next up on my list is Crosscode, but it has bugs with OLED screens. Also going to play Disco Elysium, Cassette Beasts, and maybe Monster Hunter: Rise to prepare for Wilds.
Balatro, although I wish there was a mobile version, because it seems like a waste to play it on the Deck.
I got Skater XL from a recent Humble Bundle, and it runs really well. If you've ever played the Skate series, the controls are really similar where you do almost everything with the sticks, so I've unfortunately kinda stopped playing it on the Deck after someone online made a good point that it'll probably wear the sticks out really fast. I also got Bomb Rush Cyberfunk recently, and it's a good facsimile until Sega releases a new Jet Set Radio.
Other than that, a bunch of shmups and emulated games, especially MAME.
For what it’s worth, the stick’s are really easily replaceable. Maybe 15 minutes for the whole procedure and that’s just time spent unscrewing it.
I was surprised how expensive those replacements were though
Love playing Pokemon HGSS on a phone. The UI is perfect for phone emulation
Bad answer but the DS version of Shiren the Wanderer. Great game to poke at, easy to pick up and put down.
I’m playing Sea of Stars on my Switch. Very good classic RPG feel with interesting game mechanics and a cool story.
