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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/mnmnmomo on 2025-08-07 09:39:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Diogo_18 on 2025-08-07 10:15:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/euphydev on 2025-08-07 04:24:05+00:00.

Hi! This is my first ever console, and I'm looking for games that can give me 100+ hours of playtime.

For context, here are some mobile games I love: • Clash of Clans • Mobile Legends • Zombie Catchers • Roguelike games like Soul Knight

I'm not really into story-heavy games like Cyberpunk, GTA, or even big titles like Elden Ring. Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to get invested in games where 50 to 60 percent of the time is spent reading dialogue. I prefer games that get straight into the action. I'm okay with a bit of story, maybe around 20 percent, but not too much.

I also don't enjoy RPGs that require precise aiming. I feel like those are best played with a keyboard and mouse. Plus, I get motion sickness easily.

I used to play Valorant on PC because my friends did, but when they stopped, I stopped too. And again, motion sickness hit me hard.

To be honest, I’m not really a gamer. I'm just a newbie who wants to get the most bang for my buck—games that are fun, worth the price, and easy to jump in and out of. Something I can play during lunch breaks, after work, or whenever I’m bored, without needing to remember where I left off.

I’ve played the original Binding of Isaac for 10 hours and couldn’t get past level 5 😅 but I really enjoyed it. I'm also open to trying other genres.

Previously Enjoyed Games: Clash of Clans, Mobile Legends, Zombie Catchers, Soul Knight, Valorant (only played because of friends), original Binding of Isaac (played for 10+ hours, stuck at level 5 but still enjoyed it)

Preferred Genres: Roguelike, casual action, games with short sessions and quick gameplay loops. I’m not into story-heavy games or anything that requires a lot of reading or remembering where I left off. But I'm really open to play other genres :))

Budget: No strict budget, but I want games that offer good value for money and lots of replayability (ideally 100+ hours).

Other Notes:

Here’s what’s on my current wishlist, based on some YouTube videos I've seen: • Dave the Diver • Cult of the Lamb • Stardew Valley • Hades • Hollow Knight • Binding of Isaac: Rebirth • Dead Cells • Vampire Survivors • Risk of Rain 2 • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

If you’ve played any of these or have recommendations based on the kind of games I enjoy, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/AshyWhiteGuy on 2025-08-07 00:34:29+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/BlueberryB-Laine on 2025-08-06 21:29:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/holymoledonuts on 2025-08-06 14:46:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Much-Clock-9766 on 2025-08-06 18:49:07+00:00.

hey all, so im a student living in university dorms, and due to that i have to move my setup quite a bit, often across campus to different buildings when i have to move for the new semesters. its getting quite frustrating having to lug around my full size tower and two monitors, and a friend joked that i should just get a steam deck to connect my stuff to and use as my main computer, but that got me actually thinking about how feasible it is. Does anybody here do that, or would anybody be able to shine some light on whether or not this could actually be possible?

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Shawncm1 on 2025-08-06 18:31:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/lohre2000s on 2025-08-06 16:32:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/ScrumTumescent on 2025-08-06 15:23:37+00:00.

This game produces a strange effect I've never experienced before. Play for a good half hour or possibly one chapter at a time. Your eyes get used to the VGA style pixel art.

Then immediately play something with last Gen or higher visuals. Doesn't matter. Could even just be browsing the UI. The Deck's resolution and colors will seem luscious, vibrant, and futuristic even on the basic Steam store interface.

Once your eyes adjust to low res, suddenly bumping to high res (1200x800) looks incredible

It's like being in a hot tub and immediately jumping into a pool, or vice versa. Or eating bland food for a week and then having a decadent, creamy pasta dish. I've never appreciated the Deck's graphics more.

Note that The Drifter isn't ugly. It's stylized and a conscious throwback to 90's PC graphic adventures. The game itself is pretty good (I'm half way though)

But I'm taking about the low-res / high res juxtaposition. I played Crash Bandicoot 4 immediately after and it looked like a Pixar movie. The Outer Worlds no longer looked like a last gen FPS. It was gorgeous. I suddenly didn't care that I run at med/low settings to get 60 fps in it.

Has anyone else experienced this? Play an engrossing low-res game and jump into a AAA modern game. After an hour of The Drifter, I'm going to jump into something at 2k, 60 fps on my 70" HDTV and see how that goes. Try it!

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Urania3000 on 2025-08-06 04:15:15+00:00.

Since I am seeing posts from time to time with claims that the Steam Deck is already at its performance limit, I wanted to show that future software updates & tweaks can still have a pretty profound positive impact on gaming results.

For that I am using the CachyOS Handheld Edition with the latest Linux 6.16 kernel on my LCD Deck without any hardware overclock, but changing quite a few software settings like using BPFland as the CPU scheduler and disabling all CPU mitigations.

Except for the mitigations thing, most of these software improvements should eventually end up within SteamOS, too.

As an example of the performance uplift, here is my result of the free Black Myth Wukong benchmark tool (without any framegen!):

https://preview.redd.it/2cc87a51qbhf1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de3acc5e7be260e2546ffd58801d1aa2a963f3d7

So yeah, the future potential for gaming on the Steam Deck is looking very bright indeed!

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Gods_Men_Beasts on 2025-08-06 06:35:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Elet_Ronne on 2025-08-06 05:18:43+00:00.

505, to be precise :3

Been waiting until I made it to my 'goal' to post this. I didn't rush, I didn't download any crap for the sake of the goal.

I've obtained 500 solid, unique games, vetted through metacritic, reddit, and more, over 8 months of owning my Deck. No duplicates, not counting re-releases, and collections count as one game.

I have spent at least 20 individual nights researching, downloading, formatting my file system, and adding the games to my Deck. This has been the hobby of my spring and summer so far.

I'm in love now more than ever.

Having all of this available, at my fingertips, in my hands, is a childhood dream come true. The sheer breadth of possible experiences, over five generations of gaming history, all in beautiful bright color, blows my mind.

About 35 games are from my Steam library (though I have maybe 60 in all; most of them are indie titles and I switch out my AAA titles depending on what I want to play to save space). The rest are roms. This is where I went wild.

I had emulated on my PC before. But, like a normal person, I only had my favorite titles...maybe 25 or so. It was only with the advent of the Deck in my life that I began considering collecting game libraries for the sake of future security. And just for fun.

After breaking through the dry spell of finding a good rom source (as everything I'd previously downloaded for my PC came from a now defunct site), the floodgates were open.

Started with Gamecube, the system I was most excited to play in handheld. Before I knew it, I was up to 78 games.

Then it was N64. 49 games later, I move back to SNES. Then came the handhelds; GB, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS. Remembered the NES around this time...45 games later, I remembered something else:

Sega.

I call this part the 'Larry Collection'. Sounds funny, but it's because the only person I ever experienced Sega through was my Uncle Larry, now deceased. He loved his Sonic and I just remember long summer days playing Genesis in his cool room.

50 games (I found Sega's libraries not as much to my style as Nintendo, but that's okay), and many rounds of fine tuning (my emulators had a hard time with some of these, for some reason) later, I finally think to myself: damn, have I done it? And I go in for the count. I honestly didn't expect to have made it.

But I did! And I'd say that, for now, I'm finally done.

You may be asking yourself why I would bother getting so many games when I couldn't ever possibly play them all.

Well...options!

I believe in the rule of 20%, when it comes to libraries. Physical libraries, to be precise. The only thing I physically collect are books, and I have hundreds. But have I read all of them? Noooo. I've read, at the most, 20%. And this is a good thing.

I get to 'shop' my own collection whenever I want something new to read. I love that for some reason. I love looking at my own stuff, still full of potential, still waiting to be explored.

Well, game collecting is a 0 footprint business when it comes to the Steam Deck. It's all right there, on my PC, on my flash drive, on my Deck. 500 games to choose from.

Am I in the mood for an RPG? Well, I've easily got at least 75 of those. CRPG? Sure, I've got eat least 30 of them suckers. Oh, I want a faithful port of a 90s CRPG? Choose from these 10.

Every Pokémon game I'd ever care to play. Almost every Zelda, Mario, Sonic. SpongeBob, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings? I've got every one worth playing on console.

Crash, Spyro, Earthworm Jim, Pikmin.

I've even got a couple ROM hacks :)

Tired of thinking about retro gaming? For those so inclined, I've got Skyrim, Oblivion Remastered, Morrowind. I have Elden Ring, The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3. Disco Elysium? Sure. Dwarf Fortress? Hell yes, brother.

Binding of Isaac, the time sink of my summer. Hades! Barony! A holy trinity of roguelikes.

No Man's Sky, Terraria, Stardew Valley, GTA 5, Balatro, Dave the Diver.

I could go on. I want to go on. But I've gushed long enough.

Conclusions: I love this dang thing. But the love I have for it is multi-layered. I love it as an entertainment piece, sure. As a console, as a handheld. But I also love it as a computer, as a way of organizing and tinkering with my games. Having come from the guardrails of the Switch 1, the Deck is constantly a breath of fresh air.

I love to tinker, add games, research games, grab the thumbnails, modify the appearance of my collections, etc.

It's just a lot of fun.

8 months after buying this thing (after a year of wanting it very badly), I'm still in love.

Handheld goals going forward? I want a proper DS/3DS handheld. That's about it. Maybe another that's more travel-able. Aside from these blind spots, the Deck is just perfect for me.

It's comfortable, it's sleek, it has great battery, and it's pretty much my favorite thing.

I promise I'm no shill. I just really have enjoyed this product and have been thinking about making this post since I hit about 300 games. This feels like a natural stopping point. But man, it was fun.

Thanks for reading!

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Tscowan on 2025-08-06 02:17:38+00:00.

Ending up selling my steamdeck on eBay since I haven’t used it enough to justify having it, and I’ve seen varying feedback on what needs to be done to it before selling it. Is a factory reset good enough or do I really need to reinstall SteamOS? Thanks.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/IroquoisKaram on 2025-08-05 17:27:18+00:00.

Try enabling gyroscope and setting right trackpad hold to activate gyroscope... Makes Half Life 2 and other first person shooters incredibly fun and immersive.

Btw you can get 6 hours of play time on a single charge in Half Life 2 if you limit fps to 40 fps/40hz and TDP to 4W. This is on the LCD model so OLED should get even more battery life.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/snodopous on 2025-08-06 03:40:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Ok-Potato5688 on 2025-08-05 17:31:43+00:00.

As someone with limited computer knowledge, I largely rely on the community for my Steam Deck game settings. I see time and time again that when folks ask for settings help here, posters will (often with attitude) say to simply check ProtonDB for assistance. This isn’t necessarily bad advice, but what folks forget to mention is that ProtonDB is, at best, a mere starting place.

I have found on many occasions that ProtonDB is either lacking in actual game settings information or it is simply wrong about the state of a game. And I reckon this is because you’re relying on community updates, which are not guaranteed to be consistent.

1. Let’s take a quick gander for instance at ProtonDB’s entry for the Dead Space Remake. A quick glance will tell you this game runs perfectly with some tweaks. Anybody here who has taken an honest stab at this game on Deck already knows this is false. The game always has been and continues to be a stuttering nightmare. And while that stuttering can be reduced in some clever ways, it can not be eliminated. Yet ProtonDB and its comments will not reflect that, and the page will mislead you to buy this game for your Deck.
2. Let’s take another gander at Expedition 33. We are aware that this can barely run on Steam Deck, and there are heavy compromises. For a game focused on parrying, the questionable performance is a deal breaker. So why does ProtonDB tell its readers this is a Platinum title, perfect out of box? At the very least, the comments do warn readers to proceed with caution. But the label is misleading.
3. There can be so many examples here, I’ll just point finally to the Alters. There is no issue with the label here, it is correct to say this game is playable on Deck with minor issues. Because this game is demanding, it requires some more advanced tweaks to graphics settings. But if this Reddit just dismissed someone and said “check ProtonDB”, there would be very little guidance here on making finer tweaks. There is a mention that FSR 3 with medium settings may work, though no further specificity. Also, this page does not educate readers that actually TSR is the ideal choice over FSR for this title. I only know that from researching outside of ProtonDB.

Honestly there are tons of example, but I have come to the conclusion that, for the best settings, one still does best by just asking the Reddit community what the current consensus is for a game (especially when it’s a new or demanding title). I have seen plenty of special tips for improving performance that came from this Reddit community rather than ProtonDB. Yet, this community can often be quite rude to anyone asking for setting assistance, suggesting they were just too lazy to use ProtonDB. We gotta cut people more slack when people are posting performance questions with harmless, good intentions

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Txordi on 2025-08-05 16:54:47+00:00.

Seems as a rebase is in the works judging from the activity of the staging holo&jupiter repositories. And with it, plasma 6.4(.3) is apparently coming. Will the default desktop session be Wayland this time? I hope so.

Sources: https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/sources/jupiter-staging/?C=M&O=D, https://steamdeck-packages.steamos.cloud/archlinux-mirror/sources/holo-staging/?C=M&O=D

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/InformationLast5358 on 2025-08-05 11:04:04+00:00.

This is a really simple observation and there'll be alot of people that picked up on this and this post is for the people who have repasted and noticed that temps haven't dropped as they expected...

turn off the updated fan control after repasting... I repasted my deck with thermalright tf8, turned on my deck to find that temps hadn't dropped at all and in certain situations it was 2-4 degrees hotter...

I then realised that my fan wasn't even reaching 4500rpm at 80C with new paste compared to before repasting it was 6600rpm at the same temps on the updated fan control. on the stock paste with the old fan control profile it would instantly hit 7000rpm and blow my windows open.

after repasting, updated fan control had dropped nearly 2000rpm on the fan! the problem is that now the paste was left to do all the work and I was still hitting 87C on loading screens on the CPU.

I disabled the updated fan control for the first time in 2 years and realised that because the paste was now so much better that the fan didnt need to run itself into the ground trying to accommodate for the poor stock paste.

now the fan runs at 5500rpm maxmum with the old fan control, just under 6000rpm if using 15 watts and never breaks 75C w/15watts or 70C w/12 watts with the highest graphical settings in spiderman and hogwarts legacy.

to avoid neg posters, I've seen alot of posts saying they repasted the deck and didnt notice any difference so this is why I'm posting this...

if you've repasted and your fan is running 1-2000rpm slower on the updated fan control... TURN IT OFF. the other positive of this is that once your fans start hitting 7000rpm you know that you're close to having to change your thermal paste as well as keeping the charging chips and RAM cooler in the process extending the longevity of your deck and categorically avoiding any possibility of throttling.

again, if this is obvious to you, you dont need to reply, this is for the people who repasted and got confusing results or no difference. whatever way the fan control works, the updated FC seems to neglect high temp loads and let the paste deal with it while the old fan control works amazingly well as long as the paste isn't the limiting factor... basically the original fan profile was struggling because the stock paste isn't great and the fan had to accommodate for that

so repasting seems to only drop fan speed and not temps on the updated fan control... for me anyway that was the case which completely defeats the purpose of repasting

I'm not trying to save a $10 fan by repasting, I'm tying to drop 15C not 2000rpm

anyway hope this helps

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Potatozeng on 2025-08-05 16:04:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/jimmy-boof on 2025-08-05 13:51:09+00:00.

I got a shit ton of overtime in July and completely on impulse bought a 512gb OLED without thinking twice, and safe to say — this thing bangs.

I love it. So comfortable, steam OS is so slick and smooth, I have the full emulation setup on there and everything.

Except one issue. I can’t seem to play a single game. What I mean is my impatience rather than a hardware limitation. Did anyone else experience this issue? I think I’m still just riding the high of having it (I’ve had it for about 2 weeks now) that I can’t seem to sit down and play a game longer than 30 minutes. I just want to constantly switch games and look for more that I can’t actually enjoy it lol. Still a 10/10 device, zero regrets. But I’m unironically not even enjoying it lol.

TL;DR: Steam deck fun. Can’t choose game to play.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/madeleine61509 on 2025-08-05 06:38:37+00:00.

I have spent weeks debating getting it. In that time, I have repeatedly read glowing review after glowing review. I get it, it's a good product... But I know that it is physically impossible that no one has ever had a single issue or frustration, yet it feels like no one talks about those for the Steam Deck. For me to feel like I am making an informed decision about a product (especially tech), I like to know about the negatives as well as the positives.

So, I want to hear the worst parts of the Deck: What made you question this several hundred $/£/€ purchase? What features get on your nerves when playing? What puts you off of getting out your Steam Deck on a day where you "just don't want to deal with it"? Does the weight interfere with you actually using it for its main purpose (gaming on the go)? Have you had a terrible customer service experience with Valve? etc etc etc

How does the saying go? 'If you have nothing mean to say, don't say anything at all.'?

EDIT for reference: I have a decent gaming PC (4070, 13th gen i7, 16GB DDR5) that is less than two years old. While I would mainly get the Deck for the "on the go" capabilities (I have a few trips coming up), I want to know if there are flaws that will put me off from using it even when my gaming PC is accessible- screen size isn't a big deal for me.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/nobraggingrights on 2025-08-05 06:17:42+00:00.

A love letter to Heroic Games Launcher

I never thought playing these 3ree games with GOG, Epic games and Amazon games was possible on the steamdeck, without a bunch of hoops to jump through. Recently, GOG gave away a bunch of NSFW games and it reminded me, I already had the game Blade of Darkness in my library, a retro game I loved from my childhood.

It was easy as downloading the program, logging into GOG and adding the game to steam, boom, that was it, all controls were already there, absolutely amazing. Highly highly recommend for anybody, keep an eye out on these games being g1v3n away because it's more easy than you think to play them.

That is all, that's the post.

Auto mods, this is NOT a give away.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Endoky on 2025-08-04 21:32:44+00:00.

I don’t mean they shouldn’t upgrade the apu and maybe give it a 1080p Oled. But I wish they don’t come up with a new design/ergonomics. It is perfect like it is, simply a masterpiece. Please Valve, don’t go the route and give it a Xbox controller type of design with asymmetric control sticks or something like that.