Sorry, bit late on this one. Life’s been hectic.
I just found an indie autobattler called CROPS! and I am having a blast so far, highly recommended! Interestingly it appears to have duos for PVP so you could play with a friend against other players. Battling is async though like other autobattlers.
I have been playing Blasphemous, gonna start Pillars of Eternity next.
Dangerous Waters.
Very old style, bit clumsy on the controls, but incredibly tense with the gritty sonar stuff.
Been only playing the P-3C airplane so far, but there’s also tons of submarines, a helicopter and a frigate.
It is so satisfying to find and torpedo a submarines after staring at sonar graphs and dropping buoys for a while. Love it! I’ll be sharing an updated aircraft-oriented controls config when I’m happy with it, based on the one community config that was there, which was more sub-oriented.
I downloaded Cold Waters (and dot mod) and have been slowly dipping my toes in. I think I like games with bright pixellated but clear old graphics when it is done well, I will have to put Dangerous Waters on the list.
Please share your bindings I really appreciate when people do!
Also how efficient does Dangerous Waters run on the deck?
Does Cold Waters work well on the Deck?
I’ve been hoping that the new Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age will work well on the Deck in a year or so, and was planning to stick to Dangerous Waters until then.
My P-3 (maritime patrol aircraft) bindings are shared on the community bindings already!
DW runs incredibly efficiently. The graphics look like 1999 anyways, so I just dial the TDP all the way down to 3 W and set FPS to 20. Perfect game when the battery is low!. I haven’t modded it at all, I actually like the retro vibe (and the incredible sonar simulation).
Yeah no issues, dot mod (the mod ovehaul) works fine too.
“DW runs incredibly efficiently”
Honestly that is a such a huge asset, if you think about it almost every game studio with significant investment and capital tied up in it is categorically incapabele of ever creating similar 3d games that are as efficient as that again.
Case in point Armored Brigade 2’s big new thing over Armored Brigade is that it has 3d graphics…but why? The only reason I can find is it looks cooler, which is really frustrating for the performance hit and for soaking up a major share of development time
I’ll have to check out the sonar aspect of DW that sounds dope.
I bought Vampire Survivors since it was slightly discounted and have only heard rave reviews about it… I sank 7 hours in my first day lol!!
Picked up all the DLCs too. Imo worth the money to support the developer
How is the co-op?
still cyberpunk. just started the phantom liberty stuff. man is that ever not stealth decker friendly.
Is it the Phantom Liberty part specifically that isn’t deck friendly? I replayed some of base cyberpunk on my OLED recently, and was really impressed by how well it runs now. I seem to remember performance being a lot worse when I tried it back on my original LCD deck.
Frontier Pilot Simulator even though it doesn’t work offline for some reason.
NFL 2k5
I’ll never get over playing my old ps2 games on the go.
have you tried Mutant Footbal League?
Witcher 3, Just finished the main story. And boy, CDPR really nailed the story/ character writing in this game. Looking to grab “Hearts of stone” & “Blood and Wind” DLC next GOG sale.
What an amazing 50hr time sink!
It’s been a while since I played W3 but I remember Blood & Wine being a ton of fun. It’s basically a parody of overly flashy knighthood tales with all the pomp you can imagine. Has a decently sized map and lots of content too and kinda feels like an epilogue to the main game.
I full-heartedly recommend picking it up!
Cookie cutter. A really neat metroidvania with a lot of blood
Mostly CrossCode. A fun little sci-fi action puzzler that pays homage to the SNES era of games. It’s similar to Spirit of Mana. Low power requirements, and it has a Linux-native version that works better than the Windows version (you need updated engine files if you play from itch.io).
I’m also playing a little bit of No Man’s Sky, but just here and there; I’m mostly playing that on my desktop.
Do you play No Mans Sky alone or with friends? I picked it up for my deck but havent tried it out yet… Unfortunately one of the reasons why I have a deck is my PC can’t handle some games
If you want a lower spec but still gorgeous singleplayer and multiplayer (not a mmo type game though) space game check out avorion. Somebody gifted it to me because they wanted me to try it so much and I am starting to see what they were on about with it.
No planets to land on and it ends up playing more like a 4x game late game I think but it is worth a look. Just download and use workshop ships if you feel overwhelmed with the building part.
Wilmot Works It Out - much simpler than Wilmot’s Warehouse, an extremely enjoyable puzzle game.
I was about to ask how well the Wiimote works with the Deck.
It’s perfect. My only gripe is sometimes it reads analogue joystick input as double move - but then you can just use pad or tweak the steam input profile.
Performance-wise it feels like a game made for deck
