Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games

I played through 99% of the game on Deck.

Only the last bosses I had the time and space to run it on PC and control it from the Deck.

But 0 issues with anything, ran like butter, at home, travelling. Controls are excelent.

It was my first souls game and I finished it thanks to the Deck.

I put mine at lowest settings, 40-45fps cap. Runs fine.

My biggest use case for the deck is to be able to keep playing the same games as I do on my main gaming PC when I go on vacation. This was really put to the test with Cyberpunk 2077 and it worked shockingly well.

That said... it's definitely not ideal, and it's generally relegated to similar games like you're talking about. Peglin, Celeste, etc

I recently tried it on Deck and it's rough, but I think a lot of people only have a deck as an option to play it, so they use what they have. It's a fun game, so it makes sense. If you have the option to play on a PC, it's not worth using your steam deck though.

I play it on the deck all the time and it's fine, graphics turned down to potato but they still look decent, and the FPS stays good in all but the most insane of situations (I play on difficulty 8/9, so I'm experiencing the most enemies possible). Only "hard" part is there's no aim assist for controller so the high precision weapons like snipers are harder to use, but that doesn't stop me from trying haha