I’m getting a Deck finally now that the OLED model is releasing and battery life is significantly improved. The hardware has such good potential for so many games but I honestly have no idea what I’m actually going to use it for lol.
The best ideas I can come up with are basically every Bethesda RPG, Bioshock, turn based JRPG (like Octopath), and Halo. Idk if any of those are really like must have games that are system sellers. Maybe I’m just picky. I dunno.
My question would be what are things you use your Deck for? Either top 3 or top 5 would be nice. It’s like a half “what do you do” and half “what should I do” with the Deck. What is the game(s) that made the purchase worth it?
1.) Hades Beautiful, endlessly replayable, still one of the most played games every month on Steam Deck. Can be played for minutes or hours. A perfect portable game that’s best played on Steam Deck. 2.) Hollow Night My first game I completed on Steam Deck. I bounced off Hollow Night on PC, but the ability to play away from my desk got me to complete this game. It’s the first game that showed me the Steam Deck can be the ultimate backlog killer. 3.) Fallout 4 Runs at a nearly locked 60fps out of the box and roving around the wasteland is endlessly fun. Fallout 4 lends itself to portable play way more than I expected because of all the bite-sized side content on offer. 4.) Ori and the Will of the Wisps Metroidvanias are perfect for the portable form factor, and Ori’s gorgeous visuals running at 60fps without any compromises is something to behold. I cannot wait to replay this game on Steam Deck OLED in HDR. It’s going to be glorious. 5.) Doom Eternal God-tier optimization. The fact that something that looks as good as Doom eternal runs on a portable system at all let alone at 60fps on high settings is witchcraft. I never thought I would enjoy this game or any FOS away from mouse and keyboard but the controls in Doom Eternal are tuned to perfection.