supersquirrel

Like AAA studios do, I frantically edit my creation after unwisely releasing it prematurely to try to salvage some goodwill with people.

...maybe I missed my calling as a AAA game studios owner!?!

This has quickly become my favorite big map vehicle battlefield-like because the gameplay is really solid and part of the core focus of the developer is creating a free moddable platform for others to create new types of games on. Even if tactical/milsim type games aren't your thing there are already mods like "Casualfield" that make the gameplay much more like call of duty or battlefield.

Check it out!

p.s. the game is getting review bombed by trolls ignore the "mixed" rating, the game has some rough edges, but it is legitimately great fps as it is

Raid: World War II, you might remember this game coming out? I don't. It certainly has a bland name (though you can't fault it for being unclear about what the game is lol) but suffice to say the story goes that on release this game flopped compared to similar co-op heist/raid shooters like it even though the development team was well situated to make a hit on paper.

The weird thing is, at some point since a small passionate team of developers were given more creative control, and all of a sudden diehard fans of Payday 2 and similar games are singing the praises of Raid: World War II, in 2025, which is a game released in 2017 on an already out of date engine..... Weird, but the reason that should matter to you is that the game is far cheaper than it should be for the quality and amount of content in the game and the only real drawback is the game is made on an engine clearly long in the tooth (I mean I love Xonotic so... it is all a matter of perspective I guess lol).

Also, it just feels especially relaxing right now to blast Nazis and steal their gold!

The tutorial is very quick, fun and doesn't require a big investment of focus or time, you get to the fun bits fast. This a great pick up and play game on the Deck to play with friends or by yourself.

I would describe the feel of this game to something like Warhammer Vermintide 2 but with guns (though I believe this game is literally made on the same engine as Payday 2, so that is a good comparison as well). There is a ridiculous amount of enemies and battles can be quite frantic (there are almost always mounted MGs placed in convenient places for you to use for example). There is also stealth mechanics/options too.

This game is a blast on the Steam Deck, though I guess it is worth noting that I play all kinds of shooters (PVE and PVP) on the Steam Deck using the onboard joysticks and gyro so your personal comfort playing with the onboard controls may vary.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/414740/RAID_World_War_II/

On the other hand if you are looking for a PVP heist game that seems to have similarly fallen on its face (though it is much earlier in its development cycle, being in early access) despite actually being an awesome game underneath, check out Due Process which is currently a whopping $1. This seems like the kind of game that might go FTP, so you might end up being able to get it for free one day, but I think the amount of game on display here already is easily worth $1, especially because it combines common FPS PVP and PVE tropes in ways that R6 Siege seems to have largely failed to do as successfully. Watch some gameplay before judging it as a $1 shooter.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/753650/Due_Process/

Hadean Tactics, Backpack Hero, Death Roads Tournament and The Way Ash Of Gods are all great deckbuilders for $16

(are game deals for games I think are good on the deck considered ok/relevant here or should I post them elsewhere?)

Don't sleep on the splitscreen potential of your deck!

I am on mobile I will have to edit with links later

Devador

Folk Hero

Battle Planet

Flipon

Galactic Thunderdome

Nom Nom Galaxy

Ultra Foodmess 2

Danger Scavenger

Jelly Car World

Bunny Hill

Super Volley Blast

Plunder Panic

Dungeons Of Sundaria

Herosiege

Hyperbrawl

Pool Panic

Suika Shapes

Bones Cafe

Endgame Road To Salvation

Dunk Lords

Mutant Football League

Shadowkin

Wizard Of Legend

The Crackpet Show

Shipped

Unspottable

Cosmos Quickstop

Super Blood Hockey

Lumencraft

Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix

Rubber Bandits

Blazing Beaks

Critter Crunch

Full Metal Furies

Petal Crash

Ms. Splosion Man

Chronicon

incompetent half-assing is rarely this morally righteous of an act too, since your one act of barely-competent-enough incompetence is transmuted into endless incompetence by becoming training data/qc feedback

I know this sub is about biodiversity but that is the mindblowing thing, the incredible diversity of minerals on earth (and my oh my the diversity is overwhelming) is a consequence of the incredible biodiversity of life, and it is not unlikely that it worked the other way too, a diversity of minerals may have been a formative part of the development of life.

A diversity of minerals/chemical may have facilitated the formation and diversification of life which fed back into the further diversification of minerals...

It suggests a beautiful perspective to understand ecosystems and the essential role of diversity for stability.

Operation Harsh Doorstop is a single and multiplayer tactical shooter with vehicles and large map support, it has mod support (a core objective of the dev) and crucially support for autodownloading server mods when players join the server.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/

The bipod system is quite impressive and overall OHD has really solid tactical shooter mechanics... but this isn't only a game for realistic tactical shooter fans. Case in point some servers use the Casualfield mod which tweaks the game to play more like Call Of Duty.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3140994891

I am a huge fan of this game because the developer genuinely seems to be passionate about bringing a super solid big map multiplayer vehicle shooter foundation to the modding community, this game might seem a bit barebones right now but when you step back and consider how OHD is going to empower indie developers to easily get their hands dirty and start innovating on the shooter genre (and other kinds of games too) you can begin to see how exciting the future is for this game.

Just links to predatory microtransaction crap.

I am quite sure a human never bothered to look over or curate any of this, it is just algorithmically generated crap that boosts whatever scam pays out the most back to the play store.

The amount of damage that google has done to the growth of mobile gaming is unfathomable (in terms of growth and improvement not how big and complex the casinos pretending to be video games are).

Google needs to have their stranglehold over android smashed.

How pathetic and lazy, google needs to be broken up and it's stranglehold on android (the most popular gaming system on the planet by far) stopped.

Main Assembly is great, it is a vehicle maker physics challenge game with co-op... but if you stifle a yawn and think "I have trailmakers/other equivalent and meh do I need another?" the answer is yes, you definitely do!

Main Assembly is fundametally different, what makes it stand out from the pack is that you can easily mold 3d surfaces so the game ends up playing more like a powerful intuitive 3d modelling program than yet another iteration on a vehicle lego-style block building sandbox game.

Surfaces of wings are physically modeled in their contribution to lift, they arent just cosmetic, and it is this kind of thing that makes Main Assembly simultaneously a sophisticated simulation and and immediately tactile and intuitive experience.

Controls are superb on the deck, I recommend using fmCUK's "Usable V0.2" as a basis for a control scheme, most everything felt surprisingly intuitive given how generalist and powerful the tools are in Main Assembly.

Seriously good game, take advantage of the fact that it flew under the radar, pick it up for cheap, heck buy a copy for a friend so you have someone to play with!