Steam Deck
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
It is unlikely that Cataclysm ever goes on sale, because the steam release basically is just a donation. You can get the game for free on the official website: https://cataclysmdda.org
There you can also donate other amounts than the Steam price.
I finally picked up Graveyard Keeper and all the DLC. Really fun game and plays great on the Steam Deck.
Hades :)
Hades is sooooo good!
I got a steamdeck. Should receive it Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thinking of picking up Stray. My GF loves cats and has been waiting for a sale.
I’ve reached a weird sort of critical mass where steam sales no longer provide me with dopamine
Same. The critical mass being the amount of unplayed games...
After Dyson Sphere Program, I don't need anymore games...
I just bought that too. I'm only afraid to play it because I know I'll never be able to stop.
Luckily there is an actual end-game, about 100 hours in! Basically when there's nothing left to exploit haha.
I'm waiting for the combat update before I play a new round.
My new Steam Deck.
You know that Cataclysm DDA is Free software, right ?
Just open the terminal and execute
sudo pacman -S cataclysm-dda
Looks like this is when I finally buy Dead Cells, kinda surprised it took this long
I bought Subnautica and ended up playing it all day
I'm jealous. Wish I could play that for the first time again.
Same. The game is so good. Low key terrifying at times.
- Ori and the Blind Forest, after recently completing WotW.
- GTA IV
- Stanley Parable: ultra deluxe. Loved the first one.
- The Beginner's Guide
Some local multiplayer games to play with my partner on the dock:
- It Takes Two
- Unravel 1 & 2
- ibb and obb
- Pummel Party
- Sonic All-Stars Racing
I also considered Hollow Knight and Dead Cells, but prefer to get games on GOG when available.
Does GTA IV run well on the deck?
I gave up after ~2 hours, since I didn't enjoy driving around the world, but in that time it performed great on the Steam Deck.
Necesse. It's like top-down Terraria with colonists that organize your chests for you. Great early game content, anyway.
How do you like the controller support? Well. If you've tried it.
Not the guy you responded to, but I have experience with the game and stream deck.
The controller works fine, although I can't help but think some buttons for actions are incorrect. Like cancel on one menu is one button, but a different button elsewhere. I believe controller support was somewhat recently added though so maybe it's just not fully baked.
I suppose I could contact the author and let them know my feedback.
So far I've bought: SOMA, Call of the Sea, FAR: Changing Tides
SOMA is one of those games I wish I could forget and play again for the very first time.
I get scared easily, I'll probably shit my pants but I heard great things about the story and atmosphere so I'll give it a try.
Without spoiling anything, the atmosphere can get tense but it’s never a cheap jump scare type of thing. You’ll pretty much be more appreciative of all the “horror” details than you will be scared.
It’s so worth it, one of those games that sticks with you long after you’ve finished it.
Had a bigger haul at GOG, but for Steam I got:
- Persona 5 Royal (through Humble because of my Choice discount making it just under 30 bucks)
- Another World (double-dip on Steam because the GOG release doesn't have the original Amiga ROMs as bonus content)
- Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (a new NES homebrew game published by Digital Eclipse - always been a decent emulation publisher)
- NOMAD (another classic emulated title)
- Castle Crashers (one of my "indie titles to get" games on the old list)
- Battleblock Theater (same reason as Castle Crashers!)
What'd you snag at GOG?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
- Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
- Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I've heard it got a great modding community)
- Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
- Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn't pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG's new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG's own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
- Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that's been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
- Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn't wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
- True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)
Steam deck babaay!
Very hyped for this, has anyone splashed for the top end anti glare one? Is it any good?
If you plan on using a screen protector, don’t get the anti glare screen. The anti glare causes a slight blur, and the protector will just add glare back giving you the worst of both. They make etched glass protectors that have the same anti glare effect, but if you put that on the anti glare screen you get double the blur effect.
If you don’t mind popping your deck open, you can get the 64gb version and a 1 or 2tb drive for less than the price of the 512gb model. Watch a video on how to swap the drive first to make sure you feel comfortable. Otherwise, I think going for the 256 and getting a large SD card is your best option. The 64gb model doesn’t really have a lot of space for shaders which can’t be installed on the sd card without installing some mods.
Honestly, nothing.
I've been consumed by Diablo IV right now.
Get a Steam Deck and play Diablo while lying in the hammock in the garden...
Poverty
Poverty