Archolos plays great, though I had to create my own control mappings. Still can’t figure out why the hardware accelerated cursor pops out when I use the trackpad as a mouse though, but not much of an issue, since I rarely have to touch it.
Also some Hades 2 and a fan mod on FTL, called Multiverse
STALKER 2 buy on GOG through Amazon Luna. And Diablo 2 Resurrected
I finally finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales and just started Spider-Man 2. Man, that game runs like ass on the Deck while I have to make it look worse than the previous two.
And it actually feels like what I’m experiencing are bugs and not necessarily the Steam Deck’s fault. Stuff like models popping in without animations. I remember seeing pictures of that when it was new. Strange that they didn’t manage to fix it. Couldn’t they just have stayed on the old engine? It worked perfectly fine!
Played a whole bunch of No Way Home in the last week or so. A charming little shooter I had to buy after playing the demo on the last Next Fest. Now playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shattered Fate - a button bashing rougelite with cool artwork and combat that I’m enjoying despite being far too old to be a Ninja Turtles fan.
I just got Super Meatboy 3D after enjoying the demo as well, which will be my next thumb-buster.
Just finished control, starting Firewatch next. Control played very well, at some point it started crashing within a few minutes of playing, I made whatever change was on protondb and it worked fine after that.
Edit: it was -dx11
The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
I got a bunch of the Resident Evil games on sale, so I’ve been playing RE6. It’s fun and runs incredibly well on the Deck (I didn’t know what to expect). There are way too many RE games to know what the hell is going on in the story now, but I’ve always liked 1-5, so figured I finally needed to play the rest.
I was playing a couple games, but I’ve dropped everything else to focus on playing Sekiro.
Fantastic game, I never got into the regular Dark Souls games that much, so I’ve kinda avoided it. But I find parry focused combat incredibly satisfying, and the streamlining of some of the mechanics is nice too.
If it helps, Sekiro is kind of an outlier. I love soulslike games but I can’t stand Sekiro.
How does it run on the Deck? Seems like a great fit so long as the framerate holds up.
It runs pretty good. I reduced a few of the less noticeable graphical settings (like shadow quality), and locked the frame rate at 40fps. It can hit 60 a lot of the time, but 40 keeps it very consistent.
At default high settings it can probably run at 30fps the whole game.
Gran Turismo emulated.
for some reason Hogwarts Legacy just grabbed me and won’t let go. it’s been excellent.
also been playing quite a bit of modded minecraft and loving that as well!
Getting into Esoteric Ebb. Enjoying it so far, though I do dislike some aspects of it (the combat fucking sucks and the D&D racism is tiring).
What is D&D racism? Orcs are barbaric ace wielders and elves are sophisticated archers?
Yeah, the whole race bioessentialism, especially the concept of evil races, that is so endemic to D&D and fantasy as a whole.
I guess that stuff is based a lot on the Tolkien race concepts. It’s an interesting thing when mythical creatures, often understood as inherently evil or chaotic, transform into playable races and fellow citizens in a fantasy world.
Nine Sols and I’m loving it
Slay the spire and Titanfall 2
Monster Train 2. I have 1 more challenge run left before reaching 100% completion of those. Then I might finally pick up the DLC and try to finish 100% of clan combos at max crucible level.
Only then will I allow myself to pick up Slay the Spire 2. I try to avoid early access games, but will make an exception here.
In MT1 last month, I beat 100% class combos at C20. The challenges were less fun because they required you to play at C20, and I felt like that difficulty permanently limited what strategies were viable. Challenges in 2 are zanier and most are at a lower difficulty, so it’s altogether more fun.
Vampire Survivors is still my go-to as I only get a little time here and there and the 30min cap on a run fits nicely.
