Stardew Valley would be my pick.
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Slay the Spire is a deck mainstay for me. A good run is 40 minutes to an hour.
It is also pretty easy on battery
If you prefer some story-heavy games, you can try Eastward. It has gorgeous art style and controls and UI are a great fit for handheld devices such as Deck and Switch. It takes ~15% battery a hour and can be completed in 10 to 15 hours.
If you're fine with longer games which will take 45-70 hours total, try some 2D JRPGs like Trails in the Sky FC (which also has nice touch input in menus!), Trails from Zero and Chained Echoes. All tree aren't battery-heavy at all.
Cat quest will take you about 5 hours to beat and is light to run. Streets of Rogue is good too.
Tunic, hades, dead cells, some old rpg like fallout nev vegas or fable
If you're flying commercial, you should be able to charge your steam deck while you fly.
Stardew valley can get like 5-6 hours of battery easy on the steam deck
Chained Echoes. 16 bit RPG with great art and gameplay, but it's not hard on the battery and it has modern day QOL features.
I have flown twice with a deck-like windows pc and with a switch.
Both times i loaded them up with all the games. Probably 10 times more i could ever hope to play.
I ended up playing only Lumines.
Wizard of Legend
I have no idea how well it performs on Deck but I need to get someone else to play this game
Emulating Gamecube games is pretty low-spec if you compile the shaders beforehand. Battery life nets 2-3 hours on flights for me (Steam Deck). I have nearly 2000 hours of Animal Crossing GC combined, pls don't judge me 😅.
How about SNES or GBA emulation? For what it’s worth, many flights now have a power outlet between the seats
I found civ5 was great to play when i when on a 4 hour flight.
Hades was practically made for Steam Deck
Hades is great, but it's not very battery friendly for a 2d game in my experience.
You can turn on practically all the power saving features and it still runs great. I haven't timed it, but it can go on pretty long.
Baba is You can last for over 6 and a half hours - the longest battery life I've ever seen on my Deck. You just need to enable the minimum TDP limit.
I also believe Brotato lasts a lot, Pixross too.
Most planes nowadays have a charging port where you can plug in your phone for the duration of the flight. Therefore, I recommend getting an emulator on your phone and playing games on it. Usually if I want something casual, I get an NDS emulator and play Pokemon Platinum or HGSS. Other recommendations are FFIV, Etrian Odyssey III, Shin Megami Tensei, DQ4, some of these are ports but they run well on DS emulator.
My personal experience (US) is that most airplanes have chargers nowadays. However, the charger is very loose, and I could never make my charger fixed in the socket.
If OP could find a good socket, then this lucky person could enjoy 5 hour gaming with no interruption :)
I might be talking out of my arse, but you could bring a toothpick with you and try removing any fluff/grime from the socket before plugging in. Worked for my phone when the usbc charger wasn't secure.
Valheim, Satisfactory, Factorio, Fable, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Super Meat Boy,
Does Satisfactory have controller support now?
Memmy app now has notifications so I just saw this. Steam Deck / Steam controllers work with any game. Satisfactory doesn’t have controller support but I’ve never felt I needed it as I have fully customized my controller experience thanks to Steam Input. If you bought on Epic you can still use Steam Input by adding it as a non steam game and launching from Steam.
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