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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the April 2024, sorted by playtime
Cosmic ClericSurprised to see The Witcher 3 still on that list. And the fact that Stardew Valley is number one also is surprising to me.
It would have been interesting to see the actual total hours for each game as well.
RebekahWSDStardew Valley just got a huge update recently, I don’t find it that surprising! It’s a great update.
Stardew Valley just got a huge update recently, I don’t find it that surprising! It’s a great update.
Ah okay. I just assumed it was the next Minecraft for kids and that’s why it’s population/popularity was hanging on at a high level.
flickerI have like 2k hours in that game. It’s insanely deep with a chill gameplay loop. I’ve exclusively played single-player.
It’s insanely deep with a chill gameplay loop. I’ve exclusively played single-player.
I’ll have to get off my ass and try playing it, been seeing it around forever.
TropicalDingdongI played the entire game through on the deck. It played excellently.
I played the entire game through on the deck. It played excellently.
Nice! I’ve been meaning to give it a try, but I never get around to doing it. I’ll have to make more of an effort.
Yeah it was a blast, like, incredibly pleasurable to play.
The controller layout and the steam deck layout just mapped excellently. Everything felt incredibly organic, almost as if the game was designed for the deck.
I’m on BG3 now and its not nearly as good of an experience. The graphics feel lacking compared to W3. I’m not sure I’ve got it tuned correctly. The key mapping is ‘so so’; I play city skylines and its way better mapping for a mouse based click and do stuff game.
The key mapping / controller layout and zoom / perspective questions are the make it or break it for any game on deck. I really like the steam deck controller set up (in-spite of the fact that before the deck, I’m almost exclusively a keyboard and mouse gamer). I like how flexible the set up is, but I feel like not enough games are taking advantage of the options and the community layouts are hit and miss.
Stardew valley released a new version recently and there are a lot of mods for it
Witcher 3 player here, was on my to play list for a long time, plays really nicely on the deck and is a long play
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The biggest surprise is fallout 76. I thought it was universally disliked? Is it the fallout TV show causing it?
VoyajerMust be, FO3, FO4, and FO:NV are all present too
FO4 also got an update to add an Enclave mission.
zelifcamThe TV show for sure helps. But people are playing it because they like it. There was a ton of work put into the game since its original release.
It has a really bad release. A few patches in, it turned into a good enough game. It’s still nowhere near as good as the heyday of Fallout with 2 and Tactics, but it’s a good enough game.
I tried playing it, at least a year after release? And within minutes I had no idea what I was supposed to “do” to where to “go” - it just dropped you. I mean to a point that’s “open world”, a genre I enjoy, but something was just missing.
BigBananaDealerhow did u miss the quest to look for the overseer? or at least the wayward quest
Does it feel like a Fallout game yet? I remember playing it and kind of hoped it would feel like a co-op fallout, but it’s just another survival and crafting game.
Cowbee [he/they]To be fair, most Fallout games at this point don’t feel like “Fallout.”
Considering every Fallout game from the last two decades made top 20, I’d say yeah it’s probably the show lol.
I bought it on sale for like 5 or 10 bucks. Play it on my deck. After they added some npc quest lines, and if you don’t mind being pay locked out of some customizations, it is an ok game.
I love the fallout universe and getting to experience some lore from so close to the bombs falling. But it is my least favorite out of all of the games. I even enjoy 4 better than it.
Helldivers 2 on higher difficulties has me hitting 15fps sometimes. It’s so damn tough to play on steam deck because of the quality, but it’s honestly amazing it runs half decent at all.
I only play on 5 and below on the Deck.
HarryYou tried these? Works a treat for me:
Ok, what am I doing wrong that Fallout 3 isn’t working? It just crashes on start.
shinratdrWhen I got the Steam Deck I had to install and set up FNV. Once I did that, F3 would work. I would have assumed they had fixed that since then but maybe not? Worth a try.
FNV worked OOTB.
They are saying that once Fallout New Vegas was installed FO3 also installed fine
Maybe you find some hints here: www.protondb.com/app/22300?device=steamDeck (Fallout 3 user reports for Steam Deck) or www.protondb.com/app/22370?device=steamDeck (Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition user reports for Steam Deck)
Fl1ppyR34Honestly, if you own new Vegas have a look at tale of two wastelands. It ports over all of fallout 3 into the new Vegas engine, and with it brings all the upgrades that the nv engine has, like stability (after installing the 20 or so mods needed), iron sights, and all the increased mod support fnv has.
I just wonder why people are torturing themselves with BG3 on the Deck. I started playing it but decided not to ruin my experience and switched to a PC
BjörnIt runs great. No idea what your issue is.
How are the controls? I assumed, it was mainly a keyboard+mouse game.
Pretty good, actually. I play it couch co-op with an Xbox style controller. Keyboard and mouse work great as well.
Larian did a good job with it.
It has a completely different interface for controller play. In some ways it’s even superior to keyboard+mouse. Like, you can hold down A (or X on PlayStation) and search in a radius around you and then get a list of all interactable objects around you.
You can change between the two interfaces by pushing a button on the respective device. So if you prefer the keyboard+mouse interface for some things you can easily get it.
Like, you can hold down A (or X on PlayStation) and search in a radius around you
I’ve only played with a controller, so it’s crazy to think this feature doesn’t exist for K+M, but I guess it makes sense.
I’ve also tried running this in my deck a few different times and I can’t get it to run at a consistent frame rate no matter what my graphics are set to. What are you using? Maybe I’m configuring it wrong
I’ve got everything on low except for FSR 2 (Ultra Quality), Textures (Medium) and Anisotropic Filtering (4x).
I don’t get “consistent” framerates either. Everything between 30 and 50 is possible, depending on the area. But it’s definitely playable.
JackGreenEarthI don’t have a Steam Deck, but those are just famous games regardless. For example, I play TW3 and SDV.
Yeah and they are able to be played on a Steam Deck, which is pretty neat.
Hades and Isaac are surprising. They’re both old enough that I would have thought they wouldn’t be flush with players right now. The fallout stuff makes sense, given its fanbase and the show’s influence. I wonder if I should go back and try to 100% either of them now…
DrDominateI think news of Hades 2 development might be sparking some interest
I know I went back to some older lighter titles on the steamdeck. People might just be wanting to experience Hades and Isaac on a handheld.
Isaac was the first game downloaded on my deck and is still a daily comfort game.
Some of those Hades hours were from me. Just have two achievements left but one of them will require skilling up a bit.
Dizzy Devil DuckyDefinitely gonna have to install NV on my deck that finally arrived yesterday and see how good it is on deck… even though I am still nowhere near done with my melee build on my desktop and will need to copy all my bug fixing mods and settings from there as well.
Maybe I’ll do an unarmed build where I side with Yes Man while taking out as many factions as possible.
Never played FNV before and just killed Vulpes Inculta in Nipton and the game got so hard after this. I wouldn’t have played FNV if it wasn’'t for the Steam Deck, but it’s great so far.
Pissing off the legion is one of my favorite things to do in every playthrough. I’ll take the chance to shoot those jerks every single chance I get.
It’s so much fun to randomly get ganked because a group of legionaries pops out of the trees. You’d think my followers would be a good distraction, but they really gun for you after you brain Volpus and [redacted].
skulblakaLaughs in ED-E/Boone overwatch squad
Those two will drop incoming Legion goons from outside of render range. Boone will jump-scare me with sudden camera pans to exploding Legion heads while I didn’t even know combat was happening.
Haven’t gotten ed-e yet in my current play through, but Boone and the dog aren’t the best combo for protection IME.
NV is great on the deck! I started up a fresh file a year ago on the deck as a psycho addicted knife wielding charismatic fallout.
ToriborThis is only because they exclude me as an outlier putting in ten thousand hours of Project Zomboid on the Deck.
Do you really have 10000 hours playing PZ on the deck or just overall playing the game? I mean, the deck came out two years ago, seems highly unlikely you put all those hours on the deck specifically.
If you only sleep 8 hours a day, you could get 10,000 hours in a year. That doesn’t account for working, bathing, or other tasks that may interfere with Precious.
No, you can’t. A year has 8760 hours
Yeah, that should have said two years.
(24-8)*365 = 5840
I’m exaggerating for comedic effect. I have ~300 hours in PZ all on the Steam Deck. Not the game I was expecting to play on it but it works pretty well.
Yeah, from what I played of it back in the day it does not strike me as deck friendly but good to know it works well on the deck