Came back to Slay the Spire to beat the game with some of the other characters. It’s great on steam deck and the iOS app is nice too. The whole card game concept has finally clicking with me as I realize I should endeavor to make my deck as small as possible, not as large, so have started skipping most card rewards and removing cards from my deck as much as possible. This means the cards I actually want to play will come up more times.
I'm playing Castlevania Symphony of the Night for the first time on my phone. I do connect my Bluetooth controller for boss fights, because the touchscreen controls are jank if I really need fine control. It's crazy how much stuff is in this game, and the sprite work is unreal.
Mostly low/medium settings, drop the resolution to 1024x960, enable FSR in the Deck’s settings, cap the framerate to 45 FPS and it’ll mostly stay there.
I’m usually really sensitive to anything below 60fps but for some reason it feels very smooth and playable this way.
It plays okay ish on low settings in docked mode. I wouldn't try it in handheld. 20-30fps usually. All my 500 hours are not on deck although a healthy portion of them are.
There are tons, haha, but I'm currently playing Fear & Hunger. MAJOR CW on that one, of every type, but it's a dark mess I can't help but want to push deeper into the dungeon.
Signalis was amazing, the anticommunism was cringe but the personal story being told made me ball my eyes out.
Next up on my list is Crosscode, but it has bugs with OLED screens. Also going to play Disco Elysium, Cassette Beasts, and maybe Monster Hunter: Rise to prepare for Wilds.
Balatro, although I wish there was a mobile version, because it seems like a waste to play it on the Deck.
I got Skater XL from a recent Humble Bundle, and it runs really well. If you've ever played the Skate series, the controls are really similar where you do almost everything with the sticks, so I've unfortunately kinda stopped playing it on the Deck after someone online made a good point that it'll probably wear the sticks out really fast. I also got Bomb Rush Cyberfunk recently, and it's a good facsimile until Sega releases a new Jet Set Radio.
Other than that, a bunch of shmups and emulated games, especially MAME.
Favorite use might be when I had a friend who also played guild wars 2. They could play on the deck while I was on the desktop, and it was basically couch co-op.
For the intended use, I think I put a lot of time into Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 and bravely default 2. Good couch games.
Slay the Spire has been my boo for the past two years on ny Switch Lite. I peck away at Celeste here and there but StS is just so damn well-made.
I have a retro handheld now but have paralysis analysis on what game to dive into there. Gotten through some of Advance Wars 2 and Fire Emblem on GBA as well as Lost Vikings on SNES; while also dabbling in Suikoden 1, a GBA Castlevania, and various platformers
I was a teenage exocolonist. It's kind of like a life sim, where you're put on a remote planet to get away from an apocalyptic Earth and you grow up learning about the history and nature of humanity and colonization, while reckoning with your own impact on the planet that your people have escaped to. It's got some surprising depth to it.