Sorry this post is a week late, been busy with real life stuff.
Playing Prince of Persia the lost crown! It plays amazing on the steam deck!
I’ve setup up emulation and have had a blast playing Everybody’s Golf 6 for the PS3. It is such a chill game. Golf games are really underrated and everybody’s golf does a great job of cartoony arcade game mixed with just enough real golf to make it interesting. Perfect on the Deck.
Yeah golf games are weird, I didn’t grow up playing golf and thus had zero connection to the aesthetics of golf, the wealth associations with it or the game itself.
Then I fell in love with disc golf and realized the game of golf (whether it be little bitty balls or discs) is an amazing way to dissect your psyche like you are some scientist in a lab pushing an animal to its mental limit except it isn’t fucked up because the animal is you.
Still most golf games… just realllllly don’t do it for me.
I think my favorite so far is honestly the phone game Mars Golf because it is a golf game that embraces the zen of golf. It recontextualizes what golf is in a way that makes it far more broadly appealing in my opinion.
How does Everybody’s Golf 6 compare to other golf games? Do you have any other recommendations? I am interested in anything from Turbo Golf (not golf lol) and Golf With Friends to realistic golf simulators, it is more a matter if the game is rewarding to master or not.
I’ve really liked Everybody’s golf so far. I used to play it on the PSP, but then thought I might as well get the most up to date version possible. This 6th version had plenty of recommendations online as one of the best. It has got just enough real golf (compensation for wind, ground type, ground slant, height, etc) and arcade elements (hitting curve balls or super spin, a variety of clubs and balls types to pick for added stats, etc). I’d recommend trying it out. You’ll know after the first few rounds whether you’re going to like it or not.
I’ve also really liked stick man golf on the phone. PGA golf gets plenty of recommendations online too, but I didn’t want anything that was too realistic.
Finally managed to get my hands on a Deck this last week. Been having a blast with both Hades 2 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
I was a bit worried with Pathfinder since it’s not verified, but I figured the controller scheme would be functional since they have a console version. So far I’ve been quite impressed with how smoothly it controls.
Yeah I usually don’t worry about non-verified games not working. It happens but the overwhelming majority of the time non-verified games work fine.
What to look out for is when a game is verified not to work.
Everyone always says balatro and i finally got it on sale and now i can’t stop
I kept reading people say this, and then I ended up buying brotato, I don’t know if it was a mistake or not
I just found Super Woden GT 2 an amazing Retro-Indy-Racer.
Fallout 4 with the hype around the show and the sale, I finally picked it up. The survival mode is very fun.
Also with the shutdown of the eShop, I finally hacked my WiiU and extracted images of my games. And with that I started a new play through of Xenoblade Chronicles X.
XCX is such a blast, and it works so well on the Deck.
Picked up Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor a few days ago and I’m now 20 hours in, really enjoying it. It’s a very thematic translation of the original DRG into a survivor game. The terrain and mining are a great addition to the survivor formula, it’s not only for resource collection but it also gives a new twist to the positioning puzzle. The game seems very well suited for more content so I hope that it will keep coming.
Playing through Tunic for the first time - loving it so far!
Tunic looks great, I’ve been waiting and hoping it will get a decent sale.
After watching Nerd Cubed play Coin Pusher Casino, I also got hooked. Bit of a guilty pleasure, that. But, three things to recommend it, though:
- Realistic physics throughout make it quite a technically advanced game despite it probably all it took was a toggle in Unity.
- There’s a native Linux port.
- Other than the initial outlay for the game the only resource you’ll expend is your precious time alive. So, there’s no freemium model where you pay to advance. And no payment for additional unlockable content.
You play tables to get credits, to get perks that make it more pleasurable (not to mention possible) to play tables, to … The very essence of an RPG grind. And a bit of a skinner box.
Currently playing Mindustry, a factory management tower defense game. Very addicting. It’s free on flathub
+1, would recommend for fans of Factorio or shapez
I’m just getting to the end of the Dragonborn DLC before returning to continue my first run through Skyrim.
Nice - are you playing with Mods?
I didn’t know you could use mods on the steam deck. Are there any that make sorting through your inventory easier?
Switch games with yuzu and the other one that I don’t know how to spell besides that super hot and super hot mine control delete
Hades 2
Playing oh so much Vampire Survivors. The number of unlocks just keeps going up, but it’s keeping my ADHD brain engaged.
Stardew Valley — for the thousandth time (new patches = new farm)
Hopefully one day we can get the they/them options.
Cat quest 2 - Carrion - Hades
