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Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable
by cloverich 3y ago
Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming an hour or two a week on the couch, and its hit that sweet spot.
Purchased the base model; overall impressed with the quality of the device too. So much more comfortable than I was expecting, I just rest it on my lap. Its great.
- SteveNuts 3y agoI mostly play managemen/city builder style games like Cities Skylines or Factorio. Have you tried any of those types of games and if so what's been your experience?
- ekianjo 3y agothe trackpads work well with these kind of games. As long as you don't expect to act in urgency - typically building / management games work very well with this device.
- IggleSniggle 3y agoI play a ton of these on Deck. Very satisfied with it. I am also a pause - command - unpause kind of player though. But the trackpads work better than you'd expect, and often have community layouts for the controller than add things that make it even nicer than playing with mouse and keyboard (the rotary menus for city overlays are awesome)
- klik99 3y ago“Better than you expect” but still not ideal. It’s doable, but I just don’t get the same enjoyment out of mouse heavy games. But with cloud save it can be great to dip in when not at the computer
- zhynn 3y agoThe dock is not too bad an experience either. I have played RTS/strategy games on the deck using the dock/mouse/keyboard/monitor. It's a bit fiddly getting the resolution to work well on the monitor, the deck has everything optimized for its own screen size, and anything bigger than 720 makes it sweat. But it does work, and especially for older titles, it's great. It does enough of what I wanted from my gaming PC, that I just gave my older PC to a relative.
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- byhemechi 3y agoi doubt the steam deck has enough ram to handle cities skylines, i pretty frequently hit 20 gb on larger populations
- pbmonster 3y agoThat's with mods, right? If you play vanilla, the Deck's 16GByte should be plenty. Most cities will hit the asset limit long before needing this much RAM.
- byhemechi 3y agoThat's fair, but i'd argue that mods are a pretty essential part of the game for most people
- plucas 3y agoThat sounds like a bold statement. I would imagine the large majority of players of any mass-market title don’t know about or use any non-built-in mods.
- input_sh 3y agoIt really is not a bold statement when specifically talking about Cities Skylines. That game would be nothing without its community of modders, it's what kept the game alive. For example, you can only unlock 11% of a map without a mod and even "mod free" playthroughs you'll find on YouTube still have to use a couple of them that don't affect the gameplay. Sure, there are console players that have no means of installing a mod, but I'd be shocked if even 10% of PC players didn't use at least a couple.
- Aachen 3y ago> It really is not a bold statement when specifically talking about Cities Skylines. That game would be nothing without its community of modders After being just about finished with the game, I decided to try some mods. Things that should address pain points, like indeed not actually being able to use most of the map, and traffic management. The traffic turned into so much micromanagement to get cars to pick the right lane, and every time you made a change anywhere it required updating half a dozen other intersections as well, it just wasn't fun to grow the city bigger than possible in vanilla. I remember one of the last games being an attempt at public transport only, where housing and shopping and such were accessible only by taking the subway. That worked super well in some aspects, and it's fun to design the mass transportation systems to underpin that city, but Skylines is so much geared towards vehicles that I didn't feel this was a proper city either. (From what I remember of a single game I played five years ago.) Anyway, what I'm trying to say: based on my own and my girlfriend's experience, not everyone plays with memory-hungry mods, or any mods at all
- morsch 3y agoYmmv. Personally, I find the trackpad too cumbersome and only ever play games that are suited to the gamepad.
- sofixa 3y agoI haven't played Cities Skylines on the Deck, but other mouse + some keyboard management games (Victoria, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron 4 (to a lesser extent), Football Manager) are perfectly fine. It takes some adjustment to get the proper layout that makes sense with any shortcuts you might want (e.g. pause, adjust speed, open this or that menu) but they work perfectly fine.
- gpderetta 3y agoI have played Stellaris and Oxygen Not Included and they work surprisingly well. As noted elsethread, lot of pause-action-unpause though.
- christophilus 3y agoPSA: Two of my favorite games, Limbo and Inside, are on sale now for a bundle deal of $3. That’s a great value.
- ekianjo 3y agoamazing value indeed. You'll get a good 5 very high quality hours on each of them.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoEvery time I compare the values of video games to movies, even the small indie ones come out on top. Cinema is so expensive nowadays.
- ekianjo 3y ago> Cinema is so expensive nowadays. and that's not even taking in account the overpriced pop-corn
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoI actually don't mind the popcorn price, as that goes directly to the theater. If you choose your theater wisely, you're helping a local business.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoNor the fact they still show ads before the movie you paid for.
- dietr1ch 3y agoI kind of wouldn't mind too much, but they start the movie around 30 minutes late just to show ads and trailers.
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- Hamuko 3y ago>I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. I've actually kept track how much money I've splurged on PC games this year. I've spent 420.10€ directly on Steam and I have 56 direct Steam Store game acquisitions in my license history. Outside of Steam, I've spent 111.30€ and I have 151 "Retail" acquisitions (which aren't all games since "Forza Horizon 5 Oreo Zonda" is in there). So a total of 531.40€ spent and 207 product activations. Feels pretty cheap considering previously I used to buy actual physical box copies of PlayStation games, and those were generally not cheap. Average game price for those is like close to $40.
- jimmyjazz14 3y agoyeah same experience for me, my wife bought me one kinda randomly as a gift and while I'm not a huge gamer I've kinda fallen in love with the Steam Deck. It works well with my lifestyle since I can just kinda pick it up wherever play for a bit and then do something else, also it runs emulators very well so I've had a chance to catch up on some classics as well.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoYou are discovering indie games? You are in for a treat! I essentially play only indie games, with rare exceptions once or twice per year.
- yayitswei 3y agoHow do you discover good indie games to play?
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- the_snooze 3y agoLooking through Steam sales for sub-$10 titles with "Very Positive" or "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews is a good filter. Some of my favorites over the years include Slay the Spire, Celeste, Vampire Survivors, and FTL. Edit: How can I forget the "holy trinity" of mystery indie games? Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, and Her Story. These are brilliant games that really make you feel like a detective.
- 33W 3y agoThe makers of FTL have another game, Into The Breach, and it is available on iOS for free with Netflix.
- esrauch 3y agoIt's also only $7.50 on Steam right now
- two_handfuls 3y agoCan vouch for this game, it’s super fun.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoIs the base model EMMC able to be removed to install NVMe? I was mulling over picking up either a Steam Deck or a Realforce R3 on Friday and still haven't decided. Edit: Looked it up. Yes, its storage is 100% upgradable. Edit edit: Ordered a base model + dock :)
- swdunlop 3y agoGood microsd cards are cheap as dirt and easy to use with a Steam Deck. I do not regret getting the lowest storage model and just using a card.
- ekianjo 3y agoonly issue with microsd is very slow writing speed. For games that are in the dozens of gigabytes you will wait a LOOOOONG time for the process to finish,
- washadjeffmad 3y agoThanks, just bought a base model + dock. I've got a bunch of 128GB SDs, and my only current plans are to use it for PC-98 emulation, so load times shouldn't be a problem.
- izacus 3y agoJust so you're forewarned - some things always get installed on internal storage and people regularly have problems with it filling up. IMO getting at least 256GB internal (or upgrading later) is a smarter decision.
- opan 3y agoYou can work around this somewhat by moving things to external storage and they symlinking it back to the original spot (or so I've heard, I have the top end model and haven't filled it up yet).
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- leokennis 3y agoI had the same experience with the Nintendo Switch. I'm not a gamer at all and don't really care for graphics. As the Switch runs on pretty standard but outdated hardware, every game studio will basically port yesteryears games to it to squeeze some final bucks out of them. Meaning I can enjoy those games on the cheap ($10-30 mostly).
- kirso 3y agoThis, trying to rediscover my love for gaming again... I feel like there are not enough games somewhere between casual and core without the need of spending 50 hours on it. 10-20 hours is the sweet spot.