For it it has been Hollow Knight, Left 4 Dead 2, and Transport Fever 2.
I really enjoyed Dredge, Dave the diver runs also great on the Deck, but personally Dredge is more beautiful and controls are feeling more intuitive.
I also enjoyed The Forgotten City, the Long Dark, and The Outer Wilds.
Heck even God of war runs surprisingly well on the Deck.
The only problem I have is with shooters, because of the finicky aiming mechanism, even with the trackpad.
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Not OP, but I didn’t know this was a thing, so thank you!
I always activate it for shooters, then remember I play mostly in the subway.
Can second dredge, really solid on the deck!
Vampire Survivors and Death Must Die are fun on the Deck.
Brotato as a mindless standby.
Hogwarts Legacy is running pretty damn well, as did Cyberpunk 2077.
Use Mods in Brotato then You will have no time for other games :)
Any particular ones you recommend?
Baldur’s gate 3
On a side note, I’ve been playing Dirt Rally 2.0 which is listed as straight up not supported, but it’s been going great for me!
Baldur’s Gate 3 is addicting. I think I am getting near the end of the main story, but I am not 100% sure. Pausing the game on the SteamDeck is the only reason I am able to sink so many hours into this game.
I’ll say it again, SteamDeck is the only platform that I will game on from here on out. It is exactly what I have always wanted. A PC that acts like a console. I love the handheld aspect as I can be on the sofa or in bed with my wife while gaming.
I’m in the same boat as you are. I have moved all my gaming and emulation fully to the steam deck. It’s just too damn easy to just pick it up whenever.
and yeah BG3 I have to put on hold every now and then cause it just will rip time away so fast. I just get lost in it.
These are pretty much always installed on my Deck:
Dead Cells
Dragons Dogma
Binding of Isaac
Children of Morta
These I finished recently on SD in one form or other:
Dishonored
The Stick of truth
…but there are plenty
How well does Dishonored run the Steam Deck? I have been thinking of getting one and Dishonored is one of the games I want to play on it.
Awesome. Smooth 60 fps on mid-high settings and battery life was around 3 hours.
Also loading times were like 2-3 sec so it’s one of the best titles for the Deck I experienced so far.
I played D2 on the deck and it worked fine after tuning the graphics settings. Though I fully admit when things got tricky I docked and used kb&m.
So it should be completely fine with D1, awesome!
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been hitting Dragon Age Inquisition hard since the controller fix proton-ge workaround got released.
it looks beautiful in handheld and when I play in docked I’m noticing that textures look nicer than they did on my Xbox.
such a fun game. 🤘
*happy little edit to link the file here. thank you cammoore1 for the workaround!
This is what I needed to hear. I have a save from 2016 that I’ve been wanting to finish, but bounced off of it on deck because I had to map all KB+M controls to make it happen.
After I finish The Witcher 3 (which has an amazing experience in the deck), this is where I’m headed.
I’m with you. I couldn’t get the keyboard and mouse rebind to feel anywhere close to comfortable.
I have only ever played DAI with a controller. So I was very happy that I found the proton-ge version.
You know of any way to get dragon age origins or dragon age 2 to work on steam deck with a controller? Everything I tried felt clunky and weird
I have not, sadly. I dearly wish I could help.
Limbo & Inside.
Terraria
I discovered this game like two years ago and it got me super addicted. I can’t believe how sucked in I got. I’ve had trouble getting into a second play through, I am not sure why. Maybe it is because the mystery is gone.
Portal reloaded and portal revolution are pretty great on deck.
Yakuza Kiwami right now (although I haven’t picked it up in a while).
95% of my entire yakuza play through has been on the steam deck, from 0, to kiwami 2, which I just finished a couple minutes ago. such a good series and runs great, all at 60fps high textures
I wish I could play Yakuza 0 for the first time again… such a high quality experience, nothing came even remotely close.
5 and 6 aren’t playable on the deck, so I play Like a Dragon… it’s decent.
Anyone played Judgement?
@msage @steamdeck Judgement is good, I wish these games didn’t have endless cutscenes though. It makes it hard for me to complete them in a reasonable timeframe.
But then you wouldn’t know about specific details like how much do they drink
Rocket League, which before I had my Deck I didn’t even really get into all that much so it kinda took me by surprise. Seems to even have no problem playing at the high quality graphics levels at a steady 90 FPS too.
Additionally, since EA is having a massive sale right now I picked up Burnout Paradise and the mass effect legendary edition, along with all of the NFS games.
I’ve been enjoying FactorIO a lot lately. Just a great game and playable on the steam deck, unlike Satisfactory.
Please don’t call it Factor-IO.
I don’t, just didn’t know how it is spelled and thought they did it this way. I pronounce it in one word “factorio”. I think the small “i” in their logo confused me 😅
Halls of Torment. Easily my favourite deck game.
Came to say the same. Just one more run…
Literally found myself saying that 2 hours later.
I don’t know if officially great on deck or not but
- Venetica
- Mudrunner
- revolt
- baldurs gate dark alliance 2 (ps2)
- dead or alive 2 (Dreamcast)
- Quake 2 remastered
- the Talos principle 1
- F355 challenge (Dreamcast)
- immortal redneck
- Deep rock galactic
- viper racing
- drag
- exanima
- reactive drop
- kandria
- overload
- pulsar lost colony
- all system shock games
- Sven co-op
Quite the menu, are you doing those on emulators or are they ported?
Some of them played through emudeck or heroic game launcher but all accessible from deck game mode

















