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Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played (i.imgur.com)
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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"top 20 by hours played" doesn't specify order though, does it? Sure, it's expected. But not explicit. I guess you expect "20 most played games" otherwise?

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Anahkiasen 4 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 24 points 1 year ago

Halls of Torment

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

[-] Leon@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sim_@beehaw.org 7 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 23 points 1 year ago

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

Making a difference!!!

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[-] censor@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

shoutout to all the brotato mains

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[-] momocchi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 16 points 1 year ago

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 4 points 1 year ago

Same with The Witcher

[-] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

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 14 points 1 year ago

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 4 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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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn't expect this list to be filled with new releases.

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[-] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Ado@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Set resolution to 900p, 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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kit 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] brandon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] lupec@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

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 7 points 1 year ago

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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[-] leif@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Glad to see Stardew Valley in the list 😊

[-] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Brotato kicks ass

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[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

WTF is Dave the Diver?

[-] suckaduck@feddit.nl 10 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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[-] kadu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Surprised to see Brotato so high.

Not because the game is bad, it's amazing, I love it on the Deck. But I didn't know it was that popular and I thought Vampire Survivors had obfuscated it. Glad to see it represented!

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I’m really surprised to see Baldurs Gate 3 so high, as I’ve heard it doesn’t run too well on Deck.

I’ve been playing it nonstop on my pc, but don’t want to spend time downloading it on the Deck if it doesn’t run well and devours my battery. Is it better than I’ve been hearing?

[-] brandon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I play it pretty much exclusively on my Deck and haven’t run into any performance issues that have bothered me. Patch 2 made things noticeably smoother so I expect it to get even better over time. I haven’t hit act 3 yet though and that seems to be where most people have problems in general.

Turning off FSR is a must if you don’t want a blurry mess.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Surprises me as well. I did briefly try it out on Deck but it seemed that my options were either very blurry or very laggy graphics. But still playable I guess if Steam Deck is your only option.

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[-] Kaldo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Same with cyberpunk, people can play it on steam deck? I dont think i can play FPS games there at all, less alone on a small screen with 30 fps (at best)

[-] Stampela@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, Cyberpunk runs well. 30 to 40 in my experience, the real issue is the fucking tiny text that can be barely big enough to be readable, that red font isn't helping either. I think my time with it is split roughly in half between my desktop and Deck. You do need to try find good settings, but I mean it's a handheld so some effort is required.

Baldur's Gate I also play on either system, but I get the bit about it being blurry. I took a fair amount of time figuring out how to get rid of it, I can go grab a screenshot or two with my settings if anyone wants them. It keeps at 30 more or less reliably... but it's important to mention I'm still in act 1. The super weird part is how for some reason it's less buggy on the Deck! Very puzzling. On the desktop it seems to leak memory and that ends up in horrible stuttering, then with some bad luck it can stop accepting inputs aside from menu stuff and movement, and this one seems to be fixable by loading the save on the Deck.

Edit, screenshots:

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[-] ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Mars@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I’m on act 3. The performance level is acceptable to me. 30fps/1080p (docked) on low settings.

I’m having more bugged quest or game does not want to detect your mouse right now problems than graphics or performance ones.

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[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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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[-] 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.

[-] spez_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

All these games suck

[-] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Comment of the year, everyone

[-] mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Does anyone else have Halls of Tournament regularly crash on their steam deck normally when they’ve got about five minutes or less in a run? It’s like 30-50% of the time for me.

I love the game but the crashing (and loss of progress) sucks. I need to pick up Vampire Survivors since I know it’s similar and look fun.

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[-] 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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