I got an OLED 1 TB for my birthday yesterday and I’m looking for titles I can download to play when I’m off shore on a ship. I like FPS games but am always looking for the next adventure. What do you suggest?
Edit- are there any Lemmy communities I should be checking out too? Aside from this one?
Portal 1 and 2. The spin off Aperture Desk Job is also an introductory game for the Steam Deck, explaining all the controls.
Apart from that there should be a top games played on Steam Deck somewhere around here.
When you start playing shooters on the Deck try to get comfortable with gyro aiming and maybe flick stick. Many games don’t have aim assist on the PC, so aiming with a stick is harder than on consoles.
I already downloaded DeskJob! Thanks!
Two great games that are perfect for Steam Deck - Hades and Hollow Knight.
I did a full playthrough of Hollow Knight when I got my OLED deck (except some of the extra Godhome challenge stuff). It was gorgeous and got 8-9 hours of play from a full charge. Highly recommended.
Both of those games are at the top of their genres. They are fantastic games, and they do play great on the Deck.
Fallout New Vegas is awesome, an FPS with RPG elements, that has brilliant humor and huge replayability
Dishonored is a great game where you deal with stealth and magic super powers in a steampunk setting.
The Outer Worlds is a short FPS with RPG elements, it is made by the people who made Fallout New Vegas and is set in a Sci-Fi future in space.
Forza Horizon 4 is a lovely open world racing game set in a fictional UK.
Forza Horizon 5 is the follow up to 4 and is set in Mexico, I find it more boring than 4
Myst (2021), a remake of the classic adventure game from the early 90s, made by the original creator of Myst, Cyan.
OpenRA, play the original Command & Conquer games Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on modern computers with working online multiplayer for free.
What’s open RA?
Open RA, or Open Red Alert is a version of the old classic stratergy game from the 90s that is free and open source.
OpenRA has two main games built in, Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert, both are alternate history but in slightly different universes.
In the Tiberium universe a meteor containing a new minneral called Tiberium crashed into the earth, thw Tiberium minneral started growing and chaging the earth, there are two factions, the mysterious Brotherhood of Nod, and the UN lead GDI who fights for control over the minneral.
In the Red Alert universe Albert Einstein travelled back in time to kill Hitler, this changed the outcome of WWII and the Soviet Union is now attacking the West.
In both games you take on the task of a commander for either side to ensure victory on the battleflied.
Hades
Dead Cells
Halls of Torment
Bloodstained
Vampire Survivor
Backpack Hero
Megaman/megamanx collections(just picked these up from.a humblebundle if they are still available)
Brutal Legends
EmuStation(bit of a setup on this but worth it if you want to emulate things)
Edit: why the ever loving hell cant i do single line? Double enter is dumb
Hades Dead Cells Halls of Torment Bloodstained Vampire Survivor Backpack Hero Megaman
Is one long motherfucker of a title! They should’ve thought of something more concise
Also, press return twice to leave a space between lines, btw
Thanks, I would prefer it look like this screen shot. So dumb
In that case.
Press.
Space.
Twice after each line before pressing enter.Unfortunately on Android that adds a full stop too!
Hugs. Thanks for helping me learn. So complicated
Unfortunately on Android that adds a full stop too!
Quick tip for a double space:
<space><enter><backspace><space>
or, if your keyboard supports it:
<space><space><backspace><space>
Your punctuation and the lack thereof gave me an aneurysm
Unfortunately, one enter in the editor doesn’t actually create a new line
I’m sure their intention was a list
Yes
Oh god sorry, it was supposed to be on a new line. God why does the format change from how its typed out. lemme go fix it
Yeah lol, I love markdown formatting but I never understood why double line spacing was necessary
Single new line is two spaces followed by Enter.
Like this.
Been playing a lot of Doom eternal and Red Dead Redemption 2 on mine
I wouldn’t recommend RDR2 here because you need a net connection to launch the game.
good point. completely forgot about that
Risk of Rain 2. It’s actually not First person, but Third person shooter. There’s endless content due to the random nature. It’s very difficult in the beginning imo but gets better as you learn the game and how to curate your items a bit
Deep Rock Galactic
It’s an FPS, it plays great on the Deck, it supports simultaneous mouse and gamepad (so you can have faster/precise aiming but still use game controls), and it’s tons of fun.
Get Heroic Launcher to add games from GoG, Epic, and Amazon Gaming (make sure to turn off Steam Runtime, Esync, and the anti-cheats in your settings; turn on per each game if you need them).
And keep an eye on !freegamefindings@lemmit.online and !freegames@feddit.uk
Came here to recommend DEEP ROCK GALACTIC SURVIVOR. Built for the deck and amazing fun.
I still haven’t given that a try, but it’s on my shortlist!
Highly recommended. I dont have a steam deck and its worth every penny. Rock n stone!
This game is freaking amazing. I’m completely addicted!
Rock and stone!
Rock and Stone!
Brotato is a perfect game for the Deck and it’s my favorite from the “auto shooter” genre.
Seconding this, at first I thought it was obtuse and overly difficult. But once you get a feel for how the synergies work it’s amazing. Despite the simple structure it’s a much deeper and more mechanically complex game than Vampire Survivors, and you have a lot more control over your builds.
On the other hand it’s a positively insidious timewaster. (But isn’t that the point?) I certainly never expected to get 100 hours of fun out of it, but that’s what happened.
As for FPS, visually simpler stuff is perhaps easier to enjoy on the small screen. I highly recommend Amid Evil if you enjoy classic Quake style shooters. I used it to teach myself how to effectively play shooters with the touchpads, which can be a tough hill to climb but definitely pays off. Don’t be afraid to play with the control settings through Steam; personally I run 175% sensitivity, no accel or haptics, with high friction trackball to help quickly change directions. It took a few hours to figure out what worked but once you get a feel for what’s comfortable for you personally it only takes a couple minutes per game to dial in the control settings.
On top of all the great suggestions here I’d like to point out that the deck is a great emulation machine. Everything up to the ps2 era runs flawlessly but it can also do pretty well with Wii u, ps3 and Switch emulation too but performance will vary from title to title.
It’s also a great fallback in case the deck gets unhappy about not having a network connection (YMMV but some people have pretty bad issues with this) and steam games won’t start. Non steam games work just fine regardless of whether or not you have an internet connection.
Cannot second this recommendation enough. 90% of what I use my Deck for is playing old Nintendo games.
You can use EmuDeck to add all of your ROMs to your library as if they were Steam games. It uses RetroArch, so you can also enable achievements for pretty much every game by logging into retroachievements.org
EmuDeck is a godsend. It makes emulation on the deck so easy.
Yakuza 0 is a great entry point to the series and runs really well on the Steam Deck. I recently finished Dredge and really enjoyed it on the Deck. Lonely Mountain Downhill is a enjoyable skill-based mountain biking game that’s a lot of fun to explore and has a ton of content. Snowrunner is a chill game that works well on the Deck too…it’s kinda like Dark Souls for trucks, but meditative. Hollow Knight is great and looks really good on the OLED screen. Pretty much any of the Fallout games are a good choice; New Vegas is probably the best overall but you’ll need to use Desktop Mode to get some community patches in there while Fallout 4 is not as good story-wise but has better moment-to-moment gameplay feel. Hades is a great run-based roguelike that looks and works great on the Deck. I played the entirety of Jedi Fallen Order on the Steam Deck and it was great. Dead Cells and Scourgebringer are great action roguelikes that feel great to play and run well on the Deck. And while Baldurs Gate 3 is Larian’s latest triumph, it can run into performance issues in the latter half of the game on the Deck; Divinity: Original Sin 2 was their prior game and it runs very well on the Deck and is a great game in its own right.
There’s probably a lot more, but that’s off the top of my head!
Just FYI - Yakuza 4 and 5 are not verified on the Deck, which if you want to finish the series, is kind of a bummer.
I played 0-4 on PC, but then I got a deck, so I moved to Like a Dragon instead of Yakuza 5 :/
The Binding of Isaac for an amazing roguelike. I have 1300 hours in it and am still playing it religiously.
PORTAL
Get the whole orange box, HL2 is amazing too
Also portal 2.
First of all, make a habit of checking IsThereAnyDeal before getting any PC game. There are lots of PC game stores, many selling Steam keys for less than Steam. Or you could get a bundle with some games you like, some you would never think of, for less than the price of 1. Right now I think Fanatical is about the best of the bundlers, Humble sometimes has good stuff too.
You might want to get more of your games on GoG than Steam. It’s a little more work to set up Heroic to handle GoG, but after that it is pretty close to automatic. Once you have a GoG game working, it is never going to say “I know there is an update out there and I refuse to play until you download all 50 ziggabytes of it on your tethering”.
I’m not particularly fond of FPSes, so I can’t help you there. If you haven’t already played Batman Arkham or the new Tomb Raider games on a console, catch up on those? The Humble Mind-Bending Masterpieces bundle is fantastic, being stuck on a couple of puzzles and having them roll around in your mind during dull ship duties could work together. Fanatical’s 3 for $5 BYO Relentless bundle has Red Faction Guerilla, Void Scrappers, Graveyard Keeper or Neverinth?
Cyberpunk GTA V Witcher 3 Baldurs Gate 3 Dead Space The evil within 2 Hogwarts Legacy Hollow Knight The mortuary assistant Uncharted
This is in no particular order. I was just trying to remember the games I enjoyed the most on the steam deck.
Fixed your formatting:
- Cyberpunk
- GTA V
- Witcher 3
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Dead Space
- The evil within 2
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Hollow Knight
- The mortuary assistant
- Uncharted
Hey thanks man.
Oh and for games that will just kill your down time (if that’s what you are looking for).
With mouse and Keyboard
- Civilization 5 or 6
- Cities Skylines
- Jurassic World Evolution
- Kerbal Space Program
With just a gamepad
- Elder Scrolls 4/5
- Fallout 3/4/New Vegas (in order)
- GTA San Andreas (though if you can PCSX2 with the widescreen patch)
- Batman Arkham Asylum/City/Knight
- Saints Row 2/3/4
- Watch_Dogs (can’t say how nice UPlay will be with no login)
With multiple controllers (and friends)
- TMNT Shredders Revenge
- Castle Crashers
- LEGO [INSERT FRANCHISE HERE]
- Most ROM bundles like Disney Afternoon, Capcom Arcade Stadium, Sega Genesis Collection etc.
