"What are you playing this week?" Megathread

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Due to the high volume of very similar posts asking what r/SteamDeck users were playing, this weekly megathread has been created to have a singular place to hold this very frequent discussion and limit duplicate posts. Feel free to share what you have been playing on your Steam Deck or even post pictures in this thread and show us if you wish!

[u/ChargedDYnaMo]

cracktorio

[u/haigessdissizit]

Really slowing down this week. Too much crazy stuff happening. Family health issues, new work opportunity, stress and tiredness, etc.

I managed to dip my toes into playing Apollo Justice, but I kept falling asleep during the first trial (and not because it was boring, but because I'm exhausted)

I haven't played anything else.

[u/N_Vxdher45 → u/haigessdissizit]

Sorry to hear about your family, hope they're ok and can recover from whatever they're going through. Sounds like you got a lot on your plate but you will prevail. Make some time for yourself and play some of those games you listed or a game that gives you some comfort. Best wishes friend. 🙏🏾

[u/haigessdissizit → u/N_Vxdher45]

Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate it. Truly.

Things feel like they might slow down a little bit today so that I can recover a bit before the weekday. It's nice to be able to wind down with a brief game at the end of the day. So, I'll get to that, hopefully.

[u/Thin-Character9194]

Silver Pines! So good!

[u/sotosmatthew → u/Thin-Character9194]

Until you die the first time and you realize that your last save was 30 minutes ago lol , game is amazing jokes aside

[u/akaispirit]

Going through my yearly Rimworld phase. I chose a religion at random and ended up with a rancher patriarchy where women can't wear clothes or hold a position of power and men control everything. None of my men have any social skills though so can't actually use the abilities that come with their religious roles and all my women have either high shooting or melee but can't wear armor in fights.

[u/monkeynards]

No man’s sky. Finally jumped in after owning it since launch. I’ve put ~100 hours in just a few weeks. As a 9-5 working father of two younglings, that’s a ton for me lol

I maybe had 5 hours in at launch and another 5 screwing around in vr, but now it has absorbed me

[u/Flomayer86]

Project Zomboid, again...

[u/tael89 → u/Flomayer86]

It works on steam deck?

[u/aelfin360]

Maneater! Love spotting a beach party and swimming over to bloodthirstily gobble up some humans

[u/murphy_31]

Hell raiser

[u/LifeReturn8402]

Street fighter 6 docked

[u/WILD__CARD]

Dragons dogma 2 DA with lossless scaling decky. running it is playing way better than I thought it would. Although I know someone will disagree with me, I’m finding it playable.

[u/Aki_Rah_Kai]

Dave the diver 🤿

[u/InterestingConcert19]

Goat simulator 3, just got it on sale and it’s been really fun playing a silly open world game w the kiddos via couch co-op. We needed a break from Minecraft and Mario lol

[u/Gheysen-Shropshire → u/InterestingConcert19]

nice, didnt realize goat sim 3 had couch co-op thats a solid choice

[u/Jawess0me]

Finishing up with Blood of Dawnwalker and moving onto Galactic Racer.

[u/SuckingAtLife101 → u/Jawess0me]

Does dawnwalker play well on the deck? It's one that would rise super highly on my to play list if it's good on steamdeck

[u/Jawess0me → u/SuckingAtLife101]

I am getting 60fps on low settings using Mako at 2x and the Eclipse mod. Utterly sensational IMO.

If you can accept you can’t run this at ultra high then I thoroughly recommend it. Am almost at the end of the game.

[u/Strange-Tour-2425]

The Witcher 3 remastered surprisingly it run with zero problem and stable

[u/_Alkaline13]

I played through Dispatch while on vacation and it was EXCELLENT.

[u/vogel7]

Soma. So far so good, and the first horror game I've ever played

[u/Haris613]

Vampire Survivors. I'm very much hooked

[u/Ok-Goat-2153]

Ive just discovered Vampire Survivors recently. Then even more recently the demo for Warhammer Survivors.

[u/moshwaticAutomatic → u/Ok-Goat-2153]

Warhammer survivor is a day 1 purchase for me. Great demo by the way!

[u/Toaster_Goblin7740]

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

Metaphor Refantazio

Slay the Spire

I'm a busy dad, so i like games that I can pick up and play in between the kids and chaos

[u/AdOdd452]

Silver Pines OH MY GOD ITS AMAZING!

[u/raphael87]

Grim Dawn. Plays great on deck so far.

[u/Spectre-4]

Brotato.

Imo, one of those games that takes a minute to get going, but once you’ve figured it out, it shines!

[u/jt1610]

Assassins creed odyssey

[u/juicydranklol]

Batman Arkham Asylum

[u/M0NKEY-L0RD]

Monster hunter world

[u/CSWorldChamp]

Octopath Traveller 2! If you ever played JRPG’s on the SNES do not sleep on this one. It’s like it was designed to time travel back to 1995 and blow your mind.

[u/moshwaticAutomatic]

Bloodstained ritual of the night

[u/leswooo]

Cyberpunk. Runs great on the deck and it's easy enough to pick up and play in between doing other things

[u/crackedcd12]

Dispatch :)

[u/Grilphace → u/crackedcd12]

I've heard it described as Twilight for dudes

[u/Cal-Eats-Rocks]

Hollow knoght and kh2. Kh2 critical is kicking my ass more than the pantheons

[u/Demon__Stephen]

Dead Cells on Deck is peak

[u/hypershrew]

Octopath Traveller 2

[u/chirpchirp13]

Skyrim. Duh.

[u/we_still → u/chirpchirp13]

T’is the season.

[u/DeLorean83]

Command and Conquer Remastered. Incredible!

[u/ponzusaucer]

soooo much WoW: Forever

[u/MummyButtons → u/ponzusaucer]

Same!!

[u/NoEntrepreneur2442 → u/ponzusaucer]

Likewise!

[u/polbleys → u/ponzusaucer]

can you point me somewhere on how to set it up on the deck?

[u/ponzusaucer → u/polbleys]

I already hade battle.net as a non steam game, so for me it was just downloading the wow forever from there and then turning on gamepad (alpha) in the options before making a character/diving into the game. I have seen a content creator on youtube named “ Kinzo” and he seems to have some good guides to setting up and tweaking/including add-ons. I have not gotten into add ons yet, but he should have a vid for getting it set up as a non-steam game first as well. You for sure want to make sure you have the right track pad functioning as mouse with left click! I also enabled my back buttons for easy access to quest log, character, etc. I hope this helps! Happy questing!!

[u/yeeouch_seafood_soup]

Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Just beat the first one last week and immediately jumped into the 2nd one, it’s been awesome.

[u/rbnsncrs]

The Witcher 3 Remastered.

[u/Western_Abies972]

Mass Effect

[u/jarusll]

Prey

[u/PastChampionship1115]

GTA 5 for the first time. I’ve been out of the field for a while

[u/Semi-charmer → u/PastChampionship1115]

I played it for the first time a few years ago and lost interest as there was too much to do and got overwhelmed. Played it again recently and enjoyed it but was a little underwhelmed by the ending. I wanted more heists

[u/Adorable-Objective-2]

Fallout New Vegas!

[u/Redmusician]

Vampire Crawlers!

[u/KarmaPolice911]

Just finished Far: Lone Sails. Rotating Dave The Diver and Ball x Pit, and I started a replay of Alan Wake 1

[u/Substantial_Shoe_170]

Control Resonate

[u/GloomyCardiologist60]

I bought The Adventures of Elliot recently and I've been playing that. I also bought this goofy game called Blood Dungeon, it's kinda like 2d vampire survivors, if you like that sort of games, I recommend it.

[u/jarvisesdios]

It's between the new DLC for Two Point Museum and Graveyard Keeper 2 with some Witcher 3 for when I want to kill some things.

[u/jmack101]

Uno, Borderlands 4, Towerborne, and the Castlevania: Belmont's Curse demo.

[u/sotosmatthew]

Silver Pines

[u/borgevinos]

Just finished the main story in Inscryption & was planning on starting Prey (my other autumn sale purchase) but the siren call of a new BG3 run got me first

[u/hiigiveup]

Symphony of the Night on a psx emulator will be my halloween game this year, never played it before but heard good things!

[u/admiralmasa]

Batman the Telltale Series!

[u/Dardlem]

Cyberpunk 2077 and Project Zomboid with the Viewpoint mod. Both are a blast to play.

[u/throwaway_act2]

Probably Star Wars Galactic Racer or maybe just maybe trying out one of the other hundred games in my backlog.

[u/xopherwwl]

Just finished Gris, so might either do AER, or Fallout 3

[u/bluebone01]

Im into Black Mesa, Slay The Spire 1 and some of emulation games as Resident Evil Veronica and 007 in PS2

[u/Andeck]

Persona 5 Royal. My wife and I had a baby two and a half weeks ago, and it's been the perfecr game to play during this time. I can put it down and pick it back up at any time, and I can prop the deck up on a stand and play with just one arm with an external controller

[u/theanglegrinder07]

Prey. I'd procrastinated on it even though I knew I'd probably like it; it's very good so far

[u/ilovemyducks97]

Monster Hunter Rise

[u/MQZON]

World of Warcraft. Not the easiest setup, but quite fun and runs great!

[u/lazypizza00]

Motogp20, baldurs gate 3 and one piece pirate warriors 4

[u/floridatheythem]

reskate. and Happy Wheels

[u/Weezy_weezy]

Witcher 3 and i think i'll play this for a very long time

[u/Legitimate_Elk3659]

Mewgenis

[u/Ixisoupsixi]

Trying to finish A9 on the Silent in Slay The Spire 2

[u/the_watcher_oo]

Assassin's Creed Origins - epic so far!

[u/Trencycle]

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined

[u/Chief_Chjuazwa]

Spider-Man Miles Morales.

Don’t know much about the character (outside of the movies) but the way he swings around NYC is so damn energetic and fun. Great game.

[u/JaredJDub]

Octopath Traveler 0. It’s okay so far. I don’t like it as much as 2.

[u/Cottrell217]

Just finished the first Doom and started Doom Eternal

[u/uhhhuhhhhmmidk]

Batman Arkham Knight

[u/huseinali]

Witcher 3 remastered and hollow knight

[u/thecl0t]

Schedule 1

[u/Bombpirate]

Dragonwilds!

[u/tbo1992]

RE 2 Remake.

[u/Bulky_Raspberry_3231]

Minecraft Dungeons 1 and Reskate

[u/joshrey789]

Having a full time job and being a full time dad im still playing Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter Remake. Im only on chapter 3. I swear at the pace im playing games, my backlog will last a lifetime. Dragons Dogma 2 has been added to the backlog as well

[u/Season_Famous]

The talos principle

[u/BornMix566]

Star Wars Galactic Racer

[u/illuminnadi444]

been playing cyberpunk 2077....again...again...again...and again lmao

[u/Regular_Damage_23]

Forager is currently my main game on Steam Deck.

[u/NotTheRealStig]

Pokemon emulation Shadow of Mordor Grim dawn

[u/CbizzleCbizzle]

Trying to get into rain world. The AI is unique

[u/kaitoulupa]

RetroSpace. Love a good ImmSim

[u/RoyalStump]

Atelier Ryza 2

[u/bencit28]

Emulating Madden 07 and burning down N64 games I never got to buy as a kid.

[u/13ootyKnight]

Sovereign Tower

[u/Visible_Cookie_6827]

Sniper elite 5

[u/DahPhuzz]

Deaths door

[u/crackedcd12 → u/DahPhuzz]

I played that earlier this year! Really enjoyed it. Kicked off me playing my backlog

[u/Former-Flight2561]

Aethermancer

[u/bay_of_pigs6]

Reskate!

[u/Grilphace]

The king is watching

[u/Sea_Calligrapher_625]

Hades, spider man remastered DLC, field of mistra, and kingdom 2 crowns

[u/CountPhysical]

Welcome to Elderfield 🌙

[u/VivaLaPigeon]

Just finished my third playthrough of Doom 2016. It’s an all time great and if you told me 10 years ago I’d be playing it on a handheld I would have had a hard time believing you.

[u/HandsomeCode]

Balatro - it's been on my list for a while and it ended up extra slightly discounted in a bundle with slay the spire which I already owned.

10 hours in and the numbers must go hire

[u/Eliaxes]

Breath of Fire 4 PS1 via Emudeck, mixed in with a bit of Pokemon Blue and Need for Speed Underground 2

[u/Querbrain1337]

Aktuell wird Warhammer Realms of Ruin gespielt.

[u/DelusiveProphet]

Monster Hunter World 👌

[u/CdotHYT]

Prehistoric Kingdom, JWE 3 and just installed Ranch SIM after trying it on Geforce Now.

[u/valeroesq → u/CdotHYT]

What? Really pk runs well on steamdeck?

[u/CdotHYT → u/valeroesq]

Yeah seems to, modular building can be a bit tedious with deck controls but still doable

[u/Christov83]

Cast n chill.
Amazing little game

[u/KingSideCastle13]

Ya boi just snagged some wireless retro controllers. It’s emulation time!

[u/yazu_97]

stellar blade
Nier replicant
Phas
Outlast trials

[u/SunCrux]

Valkyrie Profile - what an absolute gem. Started it in iceland and it just fit so well

Ace Combat 7 - just finished mission 2 and it’s awesome. Still figuring out controls but the presentation and challenge is right up my alley

Zone of Enders 2nd Runner - Always wanted a mech hack n slash and this is fun so far

[u/BlackJack313]

Currently playing through San Andreas Definitive Edition. Last one left of the OG trilogy going for 100%.

[u/mtnei]

Mixtape.

[u/DrizzleJK]

World of Warcraft Forever

[u/C_chan2002]

Final Fantasy 7 Intergrade

[u/Acrylicus]

Dusklight (twilight princess native port)

[u/SeriaLud0]

Gears e-day, streamed from my Xbox via greenlight. It was not on my radar - I was gonna play hell us. But I'll probably cancel game pass soon so I wanted to at least sample it. Now, I'm hooked. After this - hell is us (will bail if it doesn't hook me), then either dawn Walker or control resonant.

[u/Keysan1234]

Digital Devil Saga

[u/SteezyBoyWonder]

Neon Abyss 2 very fun shootemup roguelite that just hit 1.0 it has many breakable combinations like the binding of Isaac and great battery life and smooth fps rates highly recommend

[u/LAB99]

The Division and Megabonk

[u/Super-Bit-8956]

Still running through the master chief collection currently about halfway through halo 2

[u/Rurutabaga]

Kingdom Two Crowns, Norselands DLC. It requires the perfect amount of brainpower I can also watch tv and actually pay attention.

[u/we_still → u/Rurutabaga]

Love that game! I go through phases of playing it for a week straight and then forgetting about it for another year.

[u/DrewRob92]

Just recently learned how to get more windows games running, so I've been playing Need for Speed Underground 2 with some mods.

[u/Illustrious-Wish-742]

Persona 5 Royal and Batman Arkham Asylum

[u/rode27]

Runescape dragonwilds patch 1.0

[u/Particular_Dingo_659]

Witcher 3 next gen

[u/we_still]

Finally the Animal Crossing City Folk Deluxe mod working on Dolphin so I’ve been playing that on and off.

I’ve been super busy so it’s a great series to pick up and play when you’ve got a spare 30/45mins.

[u/TheJonJonJonJon]

Just finished the first play through of Twisted Tower. It has ng+ so just started that. I loved Bioshock and this is very much an homage to those games. It has enough of its own identity though to not be a total rip off.

[u/Kauma14]

Darksiders 2. Man, its such a "game", but such a good game. Prince of persia+legend of zelda+devil may cry

[u/barndoor732]

Fall out New Vegas

[u/Stojcus]

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

[u/Hug_All_Pigeons]

Currently not tonight 2 it's quite fun

[u/Jrgnnnn]

banging my head on poe2 hardcore mode. Wanna make it through campain 😁

[u/hokageHatakeKakashi]

NMS, who chug along the main storyline. 4-5ish hrs into it.

[u/themightysaltbaron]

Marathoned "The Thing: Remastered" yesterday. Gonna try "Threshold" today

[u/optykali]

Control Resonant.

[u/About69Geese]

Saint's Row 2 and Powerwash Simulator

[u/fifthdementia]

Forza 6, and Dispatch, again.

[u/Glittering_Bus_1871]

Dome Keeper en coop et Human Fall Flat :)

[u/usa-britt]

I’m banging out some valheim, anyone want to join?

[u/Ethanb59]

Skyrim for the 15th time

[u/paledrivah]

just finished ac brotherhood currently playing arkham asylum or shadow of mordor

[u/KMAN-Ink]

No Man’s Sky and Valheim

[u/SuperfluousAnonimity]

Diablo 4. This season has been awesome!

[u/Working-Fix-291 → u/SuperfluousAnonimity]

Right there with you pal

[u/Mammoth_Cup_6438 → u/Working-Fix-291]

Don't call him pal, buddy!

[u/underfire451]

Dead as Disco!

[u/lokardo]

Bit of Stardew Valley, Warrior Orochi 3 Ultimate, Binding of Isaac, and Dead Cells.

[u/nomzo257]

Control Resonant streamed from my desktop

[u/linderlake]

GTA Chinatown Wars

[u/bepisleapis]

Cat Mail! just wrapped up Sovereign Tower

[u/Merdy1337]

Been kickin' it retro in honour of spooky season actually! Resident Evil 2 (N64 version) and MediEvil 2 for PS1 through EmuDeck. Both great games I either had never played (RE2) or not played in a VERY long time (MediEvil 2). Been loving both of them!

Bonus: RE2 for N64 has an alternate control scheme that ditches the tank controls, and that has made the game actually playable for my brain. I don't mind the compressed visuals required to make the game fit on an N64 cart if it gives me a better control setup. I find they actually add to the schlocky B horror feel. But I never could wrap my mind around those tank controls...

[u/lilymcauley]

PLANET ZOO 2

[u/19Lucien97]

Hades, always

[u/Qurety]

Silksong and plague tale innocence

[u/3AZ3]

Ballest of them All

Lumines Arise

May get Order of the Sinking Star

[u/srstable]

EVE Online, been experimenting with the new community edition of Star Conflict. Many space things. 

[u/NoottBoott]

Jurassic World Evolution 3 and The Legend of Khimorii !

[u/OGVicticious]

Lots of RuneScape Dragonwilds with my 6 YO

[u/homebuddyboy21]

i got a bunch of indie demos.

- fear the spotlighr

• MOTHERED
  
• it reaches

im limiting myself to buying only one of them

[u/Typical-Respond9102]

Oaken tower, from the creators of backpack battles. You find synergies of weapons from a shop to try and live as long as possible. 

[u/Dramatic-Essay-9736]

Wildermyth. Such a great game

[u/No0ddjob]

Borderlands 4, Forza horizon 6 and gta 4

[u/EternalFront]

Tried the new Castlevania demo, really surprised at how poorly it ran. Only got about 14-20 fps, but unsure if that's just me

[u/CostWhole9982]

Tried Control but really struggling with FPS drops :/ it's sad how bad optimized it is

[u/Darkcloud257 → u/CostWhole9982]

Resonant or original? I’m currently playing through the original and had to fiddle with the settings a bit but it’s running fine

[u/childofb0d0m]

The new Reskate mod for Skate, with about 150 mods added to it

[u/gsquare91]

Lightyear Frontier, Fallout 3, and Hades 2 depending on my mood

[u/N_Vxdher45]

Bayonetta. It's my first Japanese style game that isn't a Nintendo game, and I am pleasantly surprised with how good it is. Fun combat, looks great on the deck, weird and quirky dialogue, and an amazing soundtrack. Jury's still out on the story though so far. Only about 8 hours in.

[u/ghastlymemorial]

Control resonant

[u/Evoken00]

Zoominoes!

[u/TheLoneJakalope]

Dressmaker. It's surprising how playable it is with a few button changes.

[u/tomkatt]

Steam Deck:

• Shogun Showdown
• ZeroRanger

PC:

• God of War: Ragnarok
• Wasteland 3 (co-op)

[u/PVRANORMAL]

PC- Silent Hill Townfall, Gears E-Day and Hellraiser Steamdeck- Silver Pines

[u/randomusername9284]

I have been trying to run some MAME games with Emulation Station. Been not really successful with 2 out of 10 games launching. Kinda disappointed to be honest, the entire process is slow and sometimes proves ungrateful. Really wanted to play some old titles 🥲

[u/Mindless-Big-8559]

RDR2

[u/Finalzero05]

Townsmen, a nice little city builder similiar to Anno or The Settlers. Works great on the SD.

[u/Pavement_Vigilante]

Gears of war: Stutter day

[u/itchen3]

WRC7 und Brotato

[u/Hypsiglena]

Elder Scrolls Online, Elden Ring, Terraria.

[u/DrBarkerMD]

Currently Persona 3 Reload and also playing on the ps3 emulator RF Tides of Destiny (I believe that’s the version)

[u/Joewidthefro]

Just picked up ori and the blind forest in the steam sale, haven’t played before but enjoying so far :)

[u/Fantom6464]

Spider Man Remastered

[u/stanchrist]

Cyberpunk 2077 - I don't have a gaming rig so I didn't have anything to compare it to. Enjoying my experience, then I saw something on a walkthrough and I realized what the game CAN look like and now I'm slightly disappointed haha. 

[u/Imgurbannedme]

Growing my manhole and meltopia

[u/L1ttle_Joe]

Chrono Trigger (snes) and installing syncting on my devices.

[u/LiquidPizza]

Just finished Last of Us part 1 main story. Now playing the Ellie extras. First game on the deck and really enjoy it!

[u/WeirdlyandWild → u/LiquidPizza]

I was wondering how this was in the deck. I’ve been wanting to play it forever