What kind of games, are you looking forward too?

[Neato]

I have been reading lots of rumors about Steamdeck 2. But nothing really about the games being developed. What Kind of games do people want to play on Steamdeck?

Personally I got mine to play Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 among other similar games like Indivisible and Owlboy. I have 70 games I think will play well on Steamdeck. But one major thing I am looking forward too is, Grim Dawn and the upcoming expansion. I played Grim Dawn originally with Steam Controller, so I have hopes Steamdeck will offer the gameplay.

[Jenaverse]

Games in my backlog. SD has slowly helped me finish a lot of them since its initial first release.

[Lil B_999]

Gta6 and EA sport games

[aym]

Originally posted by Jenaverse:

Games in my backlog. SD has slowly helped me finish a lot of them since its initial first release.

Same, but it also made me add a lot more lol

[Man's Best Friend]

You won't hear of games being developed "for" the Steam Deck because it's not like a console. It runs the same games that run on your desktop. Some developers may target the system's specs or Proton in general, but that's still more to broaden it's availability.

Me? I'm not looking forward to anything in particular. I just like games that I can pickup for an hour or so on my train ride home.

[Jenaverse]

Originally posted by aym:

Originally posted by Jenaverse:

Games in my backlog. SD has slowly helped me finish a lot of them since its initial first release.

Same, but it also made me add a lot more lol

Trust me, I buy every seasonal sales too so hard not too. End of 2024 was my first no buy ban that I didn’t fail at… but I just failed recently and purchased ContractVille which surprisingly works good on SD.

[Haruspex]

It's helping me burn through the gigantic backlog of JRPGs I've been shamefully hoarding like a dragon. I find I can make more progress in them thanks to the pick-up-and-play nature of the Steam Deck and the ease of a reliable suspend mode meaning I don't have to worry so much about being interrupted while playing a 100+ hour epic.

Also though. local multiplayer and couch co-op has proven amazing. Either docked on the living room TV with Xbox controllers or using multiple Steam Decks and Steam's Splitscreen Together feature. I haven't enjoyed local multiplayer this much since the days of the Nintendo DS. I don't play much multiplayer these days since humans on the Internet are mostly unbearable to interact with, and before the Steam Deck my family and I were pretty isolated in our respective desktop PC areas at different ends of the house. With the Steam Deck though, we can come together. It's a lot more fun when I can jab my opponent in the ribs with my elbow IRL.

Originally posted by Man's Best Friend:

You won't hear of games being developed "for" the Steam Deck because it's not like a console. It runs the same games that run on your desktop. Some developers may target the system's specs or Proton in general, but that's still more to broaden it's availability.

Right. They can develop the game with the Steam Deck in mind, but at the end of the day they're still making a PC game.

I've noticed some people have this weird obsession with exclusivity, like the value they perceive in a game is directly related to how many other people can't play it. It's why a lot of Playstation fans seem to get so upset when Sony brings a Playstation exclusive game to PC. They see that as their game, and a big part of their enjoyment is the knowledge that people without a Playstation can't play it. Watch them collectively lose their minds if/when Bloodborne ever gets a re-release with a PC version.

I sometimes see people with this exclusivity mindset pushing for "Steam Deck exclusive" games, like the Steam Deck is some walled-garden console and not a PC with an open platform. They sometimes need that feeling of "I have something you don't have" to justify their purchase.