I got Terraria for 5 bucks, I didn’t think I’d like it so much.
Archolos plays great, though I had to create my own control mappings. Still can’t figure out why the hardware accelerated cursor pops out when I use the trackpad as a mouse though, but not much of an issue, since I rarely have to touch it.
Also some Hades 2 and a fan mod on FTL, called Multiverse
Getting into Esoteric Ebb. Enjoying it so far, though I do dislike some aspects of it (the combat fucking sucks and the D&D racism is tiring).
What is D&D racism? Orcs are barbaric ace wielders and elves are sophisticated archers?
Yeah, the whole race bioessentialism, especially the concept of evil races, that is so endemic to D&D and fantasy as a whole.
I guess that stuff is based a lot on the Tolkien race concepts. It’s an interesting thing when mythical creatures, often understood as inherently evil or chaotic, transform into playable races and fellow citizens in a fantasy world.
Played a whole bunch of No Way Home in the last week or so. A charming little shooter I had to buy after playing the demo on the last Next Fest. Now playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shattered Fate - a button bashing rougelite with cool artwork and combat that I’m enjoying despite being far too old to be a Ninja Turtles fan.
I just got Super Meatboy 3D after enjoying the demo as well, which will be my next thumb-buster.
I finally finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales and just started Spider-Man 2. Man, that game runs like ass on the Deck while I have to make it look worse than the previous two.
And it actually feels like what I’m experiencing are bugs and not necessarily the Steam Deck’a fault. Stuff like models popping in without animations. I remember seeing pictures of that when it was new. Strange that they didn’t manage to fix it. Couldn’t they just have stayed on the old engine? It worked perfectly fine!
I got a bunch of the Resident Evil games on sale, so I’ve been playing RE6. It’s fun and runs incredibly well on the Deck (I didn’t know what to expect). There are way too many RE games to know what the hell is going on in the story now, but I’ve always liked 1-5, so figured I finally needed to play the rest.
With the new Backpack Battles update I’ve been checking out the new content on the Deck.
Nine Sols and I’m loving it
Just finished control, starting Firewatch next. Control played very well, at some point it started crashing within a few minutes of playing, I made whatever change was on protondb and it worked fine after that.
Edit: it was -dx11
Kingdom come deliverance (1&2) Dark souls 2 Crimson desert Assassin’s Creed Shadows
STALKER 2 buy on GOG through Amazon Luna. And Diablo 2 Resurrected
I was playing a couple games, but I’ve dropped everything else to focus on playing Sekiro.
Fantastic game, I never got into the regular Dark Souls games that much, so I’ve kinda avoided it. But I find parry focused combat incredibly satisfying, and the streamlining of some of the mechanics is nice too.
If it helps, Sekiro is kind of an outlier. I love soulslike games but I can’t stand Sekiro.
How does it run on the Deck? Seems like a great fit so long as the framerate holds up.
It runs pretty good. I reduced a few of the less noticeable graphical settings (like shadow quality), and locked the frame rate at 40fps. It can hit 60 a lot of the time, but 40 keeps it very consistent.
At default high settings it can probably run at 30fps the whole game.
Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. Missed the series when it was on the (3)DS, and $40 is a good price for the collection so I scooped it up when it came out last week.
Artisan of Glimmith, and Under The Island. I always love me a Zeldou, but now I’m at a cooking-minigame boss and siiigh I don’t wanna do that I wanna stab things.
The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
