Hey everyone!

So I recently bought the Steam deck, and love every second of it. It allows me to play games that I normally never play on PC. Like some indies.

But I have a question. I want a game where I can just braindead level. Bit like Runescape back in the day. Is there some game like that for the Deck?

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Vampire Survivors seems to fit the bill: no story, a bit of tactics, you level up to get new items, and enjoy killing hordes of enemies at once. After every run you can unlock power-ups for the next run… It’s one of my most played games in the last few months. It’s one of the classic “just one more run” type of games

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Alternative suggestions:

Halls of torment

Soulstone survivors

Hakls of torment is great. Much better than vampire survivors, in a lot of ways

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Second this, it’s my usual go to when I want something that doesn’t take a ton of brain power. It can also be played with only one hand on the Deck (mapping A and B to L4 and L5).

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Great game unfortunately it’s finishable in about 40-50h. And there isn’t much to do after that. You can overnight farm gold but it doesn’t really get you anything

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Oh, only 40-50 hours of entertainment for £3 what a scam!

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Great game. Totally worth the money. But not long and grindy like OP asked for.

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Lol I honestly was not sure if your comment was sarcastic or not. I guess you’re saying that if you’re looking to spend 1000s of hours with a game (like what people do with Runescape) Vampire Survivors is not the best. Still, you can easily get 100+ hours out of the base game + another buch of hours with the DLCs.

Also I think how quick you get tired of it depends on how much you’re looking to break the game with golden eggs farming. I personally have not done it but, if you do, it becomes pretty boring pretty fast.

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I enjoyed my 50h but it isn’t a super long grindy game like OP is asking for.

Also there’s nothing to do when you farm golden eggs. You can just keep getting bigger numbers but there are no more unlocks etc. Also the lag is the real enemy at that point.

So great game but not that long.

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I was so addicted to this game it was crazy. Finally able to pull myself away now . It’s also a fun game to just pick up and have a quick session commuting.

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Warframe is pretty grindy and is free to play.

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Second this, though it can be a bit rough for new players to get the hang of all the many systems they use. Once you figure out how to build around specific frames though, it’s totally brain dead slaughterfest for the most part

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Total braindead slaughter, until you start New War. Then it’s souls-like gameplay that you can’t back out of. The only way I can play again is if I get someone to play on my account and beat those bosses for me.

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It’s souls lite for like 30min. I wish I could go redo just the teshin mission. But honestly it’s 1 not that hard 2 not that long.

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…now I don’t want to get back to Warframe.

Why does everything have to be souls-like these days?

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Loop Hero

Hades

Persona 4 or 5

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You absolutely can’t play Hades at a braindead level

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The game does have an easy mode if you want it to be more brain dead. But it definitely does still require some thought for sure.

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Grim dawn

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Serious question: I have hundreds of hours in GD, but never installed it on my deck because I never imagined playing it with a controller. Does it work well?

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It works surprisingly well! I beat the game with my second character on the Deck exclusively.

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The only issue I have with GD and a controller is difficulty targeting specific foes and precuse use of movement abilities. Nothing gamebreaking, just annoying.

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I have bought GD specifically because someone said it was better on controller than PoE and I kinda wanted to play on the couch when I was sick a while ago.

At least for a couple of hours as a necromancer it worked pretty well.

For now I went back to PoE with K&M, but I don’t rule out, that I might give GD another shot.
And if I do, I will try again with the controller.

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It works great, but needs a bit of tweaking. Targeting distant foes and picking up specific loot from a pile of items can be tricky sometimes, but nothing remotely game breaking.

I personally changed the touch pad tu function as a mouse for inventory management.

For comparison, I have a few hundred hours in Diablo 3 (PS4 version) which have a great controller scheme and for me it’s the best controller experience of an arpg on the market so far. GD its not far behind, but you might need to personalize it.

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Or Path Of Exile. Virtually interchangable.

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Do you enjoy PoE with a controller?

I didn’t like it when I triedit once, but I might give it another chance.

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I have a few thousand hours in PoE, the last few hundred have been on the Steam Deck.

Honestly, it’s pretty great. Some builds might not work as well though.

Trading is pretty rough though, which is a pretty important part of endgame PoE.

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Best ARPG.

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Stardew Valley lol

It’s very treadmill, but can be fun.

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