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[–] macisr@unilem.org 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fucking skyrim never dies!

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.

[–] PastaRhythm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Say what you will about Bethesda and Skyrim, but they must have done something right because people still can't put it down over a decade later. I do want to play it at some point, but I don't know when I'll have that kind of time.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it was a really fun game. They did a great job with it. In fact, I've been itching to play it again.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Linked is an image of text. It's bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:

Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played

  • Baldur's Gate 3
  • ELDEN RING
  • DAVE THE DIVER
  • Stardew Valley
  • Vampire Survivors
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Brotato
  • Fallout 4
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
  • ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
  • Hogwarts Legacy
  • Slay the Spire
  • Hades
  • HoloCure - Save the Fans!
  • Remnant II
  • Halls of Torment
[–] poppy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the bottom it does say “…by hours played” indicating it’s in ranked order.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just love that binding of Isaac is still doing so well

[–] Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The fact that you can play it with all the infinite goodness from the Workshop is a really strong selling point because it's thus the only mobile version of Isaac that is actually up to date + modded compared to mobile/console versions.

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[–] OhTheMoose@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Halls of Torment

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[–] Leon@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

glad to see it sneaking up on the list here, looking forward to updates

[–] sim_@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised too! Feels like this game came out of nowhere and still has lots of room to grow, good for the devs.

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[–] Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's my 80+ hours of Stardew Valley in the past week lol

Making a difference!!!

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[–] momocchi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Amazed to see Holocure on there, pretty good going for a fan project

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been happily adding to Dave the Diver's numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is amazing how every time you think "surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer" it fires off another bonkers event.

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[–] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.

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[–] censor@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

shoutout to all the brotato mains

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[–] Ado@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Set resolution to 900, turn all settings to low or off (especially Antialiasing and god rays) except for textures at medium and the AMD upscaling to ultra high quality. Enable slow HDD mode if you installed the game to an SD card. Increase text size.

Runs very smooth for me.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Setting to low isn't necessary. Runs great on Medium.

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try turning off FSR in the graphics settings, it looks much better and clearer with it off.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Turn off FSR. I've got 30 hours into it and prefer it on deck over PC.

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[–] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

It's the Steam Deck. Older games are gonna run better.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It's OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it's OK to play older games.

[–] sarfunkel@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
-Baldur's Gate 3
-Dave the Diver
-Armored Core 6
-Holocure
-Remnant 2

If I'm counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I didn't search. Just did the ones I immediately recognized as recent big budget ones.

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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 9 points 1 year ago

Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

seeing fallout 4 and skyrim still doing so well brings a smile to my face, at the time i genuinely bought a ps4 so i could play them

[–] Underwear@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Same with The Witcher

[–] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] suckaduck@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Really cute and relaxing game. Lots of charm and perfect for the steam deck. In this game youre a dude named Dave, a diver, who catches fish by day and works in a sushi bar by night. I stopped playing zelda totk for this haha.

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly I know the Deck can run recent and current AAA titles but I generally have had just as much fun playing low-demand games like Stardew, Dead Cells, Caveblazers, etc.

[–] leif@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Glad to see Stardew Valley in the list 😊

[–] ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gotta assume those BG3 Steam Deck numbers are gonna tank as people get into acts 2 and 3. Act 1 runs quite well on deck, but no amount of low settings or disabled features provides an acceptable level of performance.

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you played since the 2nd patch in the last few days? From what I've heard it's a reasonable improvement but I haven't booted it up yet.

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been awesome to see the success of Vampire Survivors. Such a technically simple idea that's so much fun!

[–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Play halls of torment! Really similar vibe, with a different graphical style and gameplay loop. So much fun!!!

[–] RileyIsBad@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I probably contribute like half the hours Fallout 4 is getting, once you go through the pain of getting modding working how you want, it's so easy to sink another hundred or so hours into it.

Lil Steamie Decky is hauling ass with 200 plugins just fine (assuming you don't mind cranking everything to low settings, but you won't notice it much on that display)

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