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What are your favourite offline, low power-usage games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by nivenkos@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I'll be travelling soon and was wondering what are good games for low power-usage and offline?

Previously I enjoyed:

Into The Breach
Baba Is You
Vampire Survivors
Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)

At the moment I'm planning to set up:

Lufia 2 (SNES)
Shadowrun (SNES + Genesis versions)
Golden Sun (GBA)
A Link To The Past (SNES)
Minish Cap (GBA)
A Link Between Worlds (NDS) - never played it, hopefully the controls map well!
Fire Emblem: Awakening (NDS) - same as above, never had a NDS
Oracle Of Ages (GBA)
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Ogre Battle 64 (N64) - not sure how bad the power usage is on the N64 emulators

Maybe the Ace Attorney and Professor Layton series too which I haven't played. Also GTA1, London and 2 if they work. I love Advance Wars too but I've played it too many times already.

Basically anything that is easy to run, low power, and easy to play with just the controls and small screen in a cramped space. Ideally nothing too difficult / stressful like Hollow Knight that could be hard to play without good screen brightness or cramped.

I like a lot of older PC games but unfortunately they're difficult to play without a mouse and on the small screen - e.g. Ultima VII and Arx Fatalis.

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[–] PastaRhythm@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went camping a bit ago and loaded my Steam Deck with a bunch of games. The only game I ended up playing was Mega Man: The Sequel Wars. It's a Genesis/Mega Drive remake of my favorite NES game Mega Man 4, with many more features. It was crazy fun, and my Steam Deck lasted the whole trip on one charge. If you don't want a hard game, you can set it to Easy difficulty, turn on Infinite Lives, or activate any of the other cheats it provides.

Now that my Sequel Wars shill is out of the way, here are bunch of other battery efficient games:

Emulating retro consoles, but it seems like you have that covered.
Any Shantae game. Light-hearted, casual, well designed 2D platformers.
Halls of Torment. Similar to Vampire Survivors, and I personally like it more. Worth it for the classic-PC-game art style alone.
Boneraiser Minions: Also like Vampire Survivors, but instead of trying to see how many projectiles you can fire per second, you're raising a small undead army to fight for you while you focus on dodging. Very fun.
Ace Attorney. The first trilogy is entirely 2D and is basically a visual novel with puzzle elements. What some people do for visual novels on Steam Deck is limit the framerate to something miniscule like 15 fps. The battery lasts for an eternity.
I know you said you don't want to play Hollow Knight, but I'm physically incapable of doing a Steam Deck recommendations list without saying Hollow Knight.

[–] nugget359@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is amazing, I didn't know this existed. Brings back memories of getting whooped by Pharaoh Man. That utilization of the genesis sound chip is 10/10 too