[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - October 2025

Mix of the ever present Balatro and trying Halo Reach at the moment

Final Fantasy XII. It runs and looks great at 720p, 60Hz. It's the last Final Fantasy I really enjoyed. I finished all three XIII games out of some misguided loyalty to the franchise, but I hated almost everything about them, and I haven't played an FF game since.

XII is about as good as I remember so far. The plot isn't the utter nonsense of the XIII games, and the combat is really deep. I've never played the Zodiac Age version, either, so at least part of the game is new to me. Not that I remember much since the last time I played it was a month before its initial release in 2006 when it leaked and got torrented. Wild times.

Silksong mainly, I just bought doom eternal on sale and I’m going to buy hogwarts legacy after my refund for hades 2 credits my account.

I have about 20 hours of airports and airplanes coming up, so I have about 700gb of games.

Town to city - Little voxel game, centered about building a city and keeping residents happy, employed, and all beautiful

Still playing Voxelgram, but I added Chillquarium and Oxytone to the mix.

I'm bouncing between several games right now:

• Trails in the Sky First Chapter - the trails series is one I've always wanted to get into, so the recent remake of the first game seemed like a great place to start. Runs great on deck. Unfortunately they're trying a new publisher (Gung-ho) for this version of the game, and they didn't discount the game for regional pricing making it too expensive for many countries. Russia was one of the only countries with typical regional pricing, but after people pointed that out, Gung-ho decided to remove it from same in Russia rather than adjust pricing elsewhere. It's a great game from a great developer, and it feels like some controversy over the publisher's handling of the game is greatly hurting how it performs. It has a pretty lengthy (~10 hours) demo to try, if you're interested.
• Sonic Racing Crossworlds - MKW was kinda disappointing (and also not on the Deck). Crosswords has been really fun actually and is scratching that itch. Runs really well on the deck, the only negative is it requires Internet when first launched (after that initial check you can go offline and still play single player or split screen multiplayer though).
• Cloverpit - this is from the same devs as Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, which is why I picked it up. It's basically slot machine Balatro, with a horror theme (you're locked in a room, have to earn money through gambling to make deadline amounts, miss the deadline and the floor opens dropping you to your death). Apparently the launch has been very successful (300k copies sold in 3 days), with a lot of YouTubers covering it.

Hades 2 and Coromon

Already played Hades 2 in early access and now I'm finally getting the whole story. Compared to the first part the new movements needed some time to get used to but I feel like they made a lot of improvements with the in early access. Characters and story (so far) are as good as expected after part 1. I'm definitely not disappointed :)

Coromon on the other hand feels like one of the early Pokemon games with some quality of life additions (e.g. special skills like flying or cut are not linked to your Coromon but a gauntlet you character wears). Most funny part so far: there are two inventor characters linked to the main story Nikola and Thomas who are in a relationship. I feel like someone inserted their favorite science fanfic here :D

Finished Saints Row 2 last week (played 3 and 4 on the Switch a year ago) and now picked up Saints Row 2022. And despite it showing up as “Unsupported” on the store page, it runs great on Steam Deck.

Megabonk.

Deltarune, Kitsune Tails, Railbound

Started Night in the Woods tonight. I'm a patient gamer. I enjoy the graphics, but 30 minutes is not enough for me to make to my mind about it.

Cloverpit and Balatro, as well as trying (and failing bc my WiFi sucks) to stream GTA Online and Skate to my Deck from my PC

Hades 2, finally out of early access and enjoying the storyline and the new polish

Dark souls remastered. Seems to run perfectly at Max, disabled TAA because it looks disgusting. Only issue is with dark souls itself, sleep mode kicks you (safely) to the main menu because you lose your internet connection.

Just finished high on life. Megabonk is great fun and sips power

Bouncing between Cyberpunk 2077 and Helldivers 2

XCOM 2 is a great game to play on the Deck. The touchpad are perfect for such games and I eouldn’t picture myself playing it with a mouse/keyboard or Playstation 5 controller.

Finally got into Tunic, even though I have had it for a while. Also playing Strange Horticulture, Diablo II Resurrected, Diablo IV, Balatro(can't get away from that joker!!!), Loop Hero, and some switch emulation.

Death Stranding. After a hiatus, I am hooked again. Feels like I'm getting close to the end of the story.

And when it turns out the train is delayed and I need a few extra hours from the battery, or when I am donating blood plasma and can only use one hand:

MGS1 on Retrodeck!

I'm currently bouncing between Hades 2 and Satisfactory. Finally catching up on the story in Hades 2, I put 130 hours into it before 1.0 dropped and reported a bug or two. In Satisfactory, I'm working on train lines for a crystal computer factory.

Mario Kart mostly, bit of Thank Goodness You're Here

Mostly Silksong. When I get tired of getting my ass handed to me, Ballionaire or Sackboy.

Lords of the Fallen at the moment. It is nice :)

I am still playing silksong, although I tend to get stuck occasionally, the difficulty in act 3 is pretty high.

When I want to relax, I play some doom eternal (just finished the campaign and first DLC, started the second one).

Also, some Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga

Hi-Fi Rush. It runs great.

I've been diving into Sundered & it is fantastic. I really like the vibe of the game.

• Final Fantasy Adventure DX
• Loop Hero, but it became too hard at Chapter 3, and I have no idea how to get good. (I guess grinding resources and building more things in my town to see what they do.)
• Balatro, but it got repetitive and boring.
• Dave the Diver (Beat it. Loved it.)
• Nova Drift, but after 140 hours, I think I've had enough. Awesome game!

I had been playing BG3, but the latest updates have made it go to crap on my deck, so no more. Right now I am playing Core Keeper, Balatro, Loop Hero, and some emulations.