What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
Path of Exile. It’s been great on the Steam Deck and I’m going through the last few days of this league. Once that finishes I’ll start putting a lot more time into Street Fighter 6 (with the compact portable hitbox controller I made) and some Eldest Souls on the side.
Diablo and Dave the Diver
Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.
Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.
I have a Diablo 4 addiction. It runs surprisingly well on my Deck. Only problem is it requires the internet, so I can’t play it anywhere outside of the house.
I’m baffled by how poorly Diablo 4 handles “mediocre” connections. I have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while and I’m even able to stream GeForce Now reasonably well, but I run into lag spikes on Diablo 4.
I don’t think it’s a network problem. I think Diablo has a memory leak that causes issues that are especially noticeable on the Steam Deck. I’ve heard it’s getting patched out soon, but not sure where I got that info from. One of my Discord friends I think…
I know I’ll probably pick it up eventually, but I wanted to wait and see if Blizzard ruined the game through the early patches. Diablo 3 eventually turned out good, but playing during the launch year was a rough experience.
Besides, if I wait long enough there’s now hope they’ll release it on steam.
I was actually quite impressed with how Blizzard revived D3 with Reaper of Souls and its Item 2.0. They had some really bold and new (for the time) ideas and it worked.
But that was Blizzard of old and I have very little faith that they’re able to pull the same revival off on D4. The campaign was interesting, sort of, but beyond that: an awkward compromise between D2 and D3, and without the panache of either.
I suppose it’s worth playing at least once.
I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky, but just picked up Shadows of Doubt and have been having a blast with that.
Shadows of Doubt has a weird bug where loading into the initial menu takes several minutes instead of a few seconds. Edit: Update came out today that fixed this! Haven’t figured out why yet, but the developer is working on a fix and the game runs pretty decently outside of that. Using a community control scheme is recommended because the default controller scheme leaves something to be desired.
I picked up Shadows of Doubt a month or so ago and it seemed quite juddery (on my PC mind, not the deck). Has the performance improved over time? It really seems like a game I could sink my teeth into but the performance issues made me put it down for now
I know the dev’s current priority is fixing bugs and performance issues, so it may run better now than when you tried it.
It runs acceptably on deck. Inside performance is great but the fps would tank outside. I had to disable a lot of the visual effects and drop the resolution slightly to keep a stable 30 outside. Honestly looks pretty good though even on the lower settings.
