I really enjoyed Dredge, Dave the diver runs also great on the Deck, but personally Dredge is more beautiful and controls are feeling more intuitive.

I also enjoyed The Forgotten City, the Long Dark, and The Outer Wilds.

Heck even God of war runs surprisingly well on the Deck.

The only problem I have is with shooters, because of the finicky aiming mechanism, even with the trackpad.

Vampire Survivors and Death Must Die are fun on the Deck.

Brotato as a mindless standby.

Hogwarts Legacy is running pretty damn well, as did Cyberpunk 2077.

Baldur's gate 3

On a side note, I've been playing Dirt Rally 2.0 which is listed as straight up not supported, but it's been going great for me!

bloodstained, P5R, halls of torment, yakuza 3, risk of rain returns, project zomboid, and streets of rogue.

I highly recommend pony island, the longing, and yuppie psycho as well.

These are pretty much always installed on my Deck:

Dead Cells

Dragons Dogma

Binding of Isaac

Children of Morta

These I finished recently on SD in one form or other:

Dishonored

The Stick of truth

...but there are plenty

Terraria

Limbo & Inside.

been hitting Dragon Age Inquisition hard since the controller fix proton-ge workaround got released.

it looks beautiful in handheld and when I play in docked I'm noticing that textures look nicer than they did on my Xbox.

such a fun game. 🤘

*happy little edit to link the file here. thank you cammoore1 for the workaround!

Rocket League, which before I had my Deck I didn't even really get into all that much so it kinda took me by surprise. Seems to even have no problem playing at the high quality graphics levels at a steady 90 FPS too.

Additionally, since EA is having a massive sale right now I picked up Burnout Paradise and the mass effect legendary edition, along with all of the NFS games.

Portal reloaded and portal revolution are pretty great on deck.

I've been enjoying FactorIO a lot lately. Just a great game and playable on the steam deck, unlike Satisfactory.

Yakuza Kiwami right now (although I haven't picked it up in a while).

Marvel Midnight Suns is perfect on deck.

Dicey dungeons rogue like like slay the spire but changing cards with dices and abilities. The battery lasts forever in that game.

Halls of Torment. Easily my favourite deck game.

I don't know if officially great on deck or not but

• Venetica
• Mudrunner
• revolt
• baldurs gate dark alliance 2 (ps2)
• dead or alive 2 (Dreamcast)
• Quake 2 remastered
• the Talos principle 1
• F355 challenge (Dreamcast)
• immortal redneck
• Deep rock galactic
• viper racing
• drag
• exanima
• reactive drop
• kandria
• overload
• pulsar lost colony
• all system shock games
• Sven co-op

Levelhead if you're a fan of precision platformers. It's very much a cuter Mario Maker but it does have its own "story mode" of sorts as well.

I do a surprisingly large amount of my gaming on the steam deck these days. My poor PC lies abandoned. Anyway... here are some great games that I've played recently on the deck. Some of them are Yellow - usually to use the keyboard for something minor.

• Dead Cells: Roguelite action platformer
• Tekken 8: best entry in years
• Beneath Oresa: wildly stylish roguelite deck-builder
• Roguebook: another roguelite deck builder - by Richard Garfield.
• Talos Principle 2: Puzzles and Philosophy
• Chants of Sennar: explore a mysterious tower and learn the languages - and lost history - of the inhabitants.
• Doom & Doom Eternal: you know these
• Tunic: Zelda Classic - but with deep puzzles
• Inscryption: deck-building horror puzzler... that is soooo much deeper than what it seems.

A final, hesitant recommendation for

• Dome Keeper: Roguelike Mr. Driller meets Paratrooper, with a tight one-more-run game play loop that is insanely satisfying.

But.. the menus don't work right for me in docked play - the A button is only randomly accepted. ... but it works fine in handheld mode. (The controls work fine in-game as well, it's only menus that have trouble.)

Some cool SD verified games nobody mentioned yet:

• Hades
• Cult of the Lamb
• Potion Craft (really great gamepad support)
• Against the Storm (though the controls take a while to get used to)
• Griftlands
• Terraformers

Greedland is great on deck

Ghostrunner

Don't have a deck yet but once I get one I play to play persona 5 royal

Just started finally playing through Manifold Garden and after switching to kb&m emulation with the stick and touchpad, plus some tweaks, it's played extremely well.

Meanwhile I've also put a distressing amount of time into Rimworld, which works great with the Deck's suspend mode since it's very amenable to dropping in, doing stuff for a few minutes, then dropping out. Well except that a few minutes always turns into a few hours...

Like a dragon infinite wealth, one of my favorite franchises and it runs very well on deck.