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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the January 2024, sorted by playtime.

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[–] ryper 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PalWorld being number 2 is pretty impressive considering it only came out on the 19th. I suppose the huge number of players would make up for the relatively limited time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wonder how long that is going to last. Remember when Hogwarts legacy used to be a top played game?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

but, it's still #8? not exactly fell off.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, but Hogwarts legacy was kind of bad gameplay and story wise, wasn't it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Kinda. Honestly I never got too deeply invested into Hogwarts Legacy but I found that games that surge THIS hard in popularity tend to be forgotten fast. Esp when their main source of attention is controversy

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad to see Dave the Diver up there. It's been my comfort food for a few weeks now, and it's easy to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. Perfect for the Deck imo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It really is a fantastic game. It's simple while still being complex. It has a great progression and fun gameplay loop. None of my friends have heard of it, outside of me saying how great it is. Makes me happy to see it's doing well.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn. I must play Brotato more. Not showing on the list

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, it was like my third most played game of 2023

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been playing Soulstone Survivors again, recently. They've added a lot of great stuff with updates since I last played. Lots of "Bullet Heaven" (?) games beyond Vampire Survivors to enjoy!

(Is that what we're calling this genre, btw? It doesn't make much sense, imho, so I hope we have a better name.)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm amazed at the strong showing for older games like Stardew (which has an update coming soon) and Isaac. I mean, they're timeless games, just fun to see people still really into them!

I've been playing the first Like a Dragon, which is as much melodramatic and zany fun as any of the Yakuza games. I was very hesitant about the turn-based battle system, but it works really well and still feels like Yakuza.

Also been working on a second run of Grime, the metroidvania, which also had a big final update this week. It's very fun and ranks high among MVs for me, but it's also pretty hard and requires a nearly Seikiro-like mastery of defense timings.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also fixed a weird SteamDeck issue this week. Maybe others will run into it. My deck started going super slow, and having trouble booting. I even tried a factory reset to no avail and was getting ready to warranty it, when I thought to try one last trick.

Apparently going into the system setup menu (hold Volume + while turning it on) and turning on long term battery storage mode, then turning it off again (by booting up with the power cord in) somehow fixes this issue. So i did that, and it worked!

I'm mystified as to what random setting got flipped that this corrects, but I'm happy it worked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I had the same issue ages ago with the same fix. I'm curious what setting is getting stuck and why it hasn't been addressed in over a year.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And there is me who is playing Just Cause 2...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see Diablo 4 is still on the list. I haven't played since season 1. I bought it from blizzard but I'm on Linux now so I was thinking about getting it on steam. Is there any way to get around buying it again in the steam store? I imagine I'd still have to connect my old account.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can install the battle net launcher on the steam deck and play. I'll see if I can find the installation instructions and edit my post.

Edit: https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Install lutris then battle.net... I play wow, Diablo and Warcraft 3 on kubuntu.....

And have battle.net on my stream deck (installed via non-steam game) wow installed and docked while playing away from home using kbm

Your welcome ;)

[–] dom 3 points 1 year ago

Why do you need to rebuy it from steam? They don't have a Linux version?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here's my list:

  • The curse of monkey island
  • Super meat boy
  • VVVVVV
  • You have to win the game
  • Firewatch
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been hearing about The Curse of Monkey Island. What's it like?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A really good remaster. Let's you toggle between that and the original view seamlessly. The game itself is a funny point and click puzzle game with a decent story

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've beaten every Monkey Island game except for Curse. Something about the art style is really off-putting for me, so I could never get into it. I might have to give it another shot, especially since I just finished Return to Monkey Island a couple weeks ago and have an itching for more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

VVVVVV, to this day, gives me joy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Firewatch on your list was awesome. Really enjoyed it.

Never heard of the second last game.

V6 and Super meat boy are such a legendary games. Enjoy! For other platformers I'd suggest Owlboy, DuckTales, Hollow Knight, Celeste and Rogue legacies when you have time or haven't played them yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems like Monster Hunter has slowly been rising up these lists!

[–] any1th3r3 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My money is on more Steam Decks being sold in Japan, thus driving MH up in those lists.

[–] Ashen44 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know, if I had to guess it's probably the return to world campaign.

With the announcement of the next monster hunter game, which is being made by the same team as world (so likely it's going to be very similar to world) Capcom started advertising world again and that shot it up to daily peaks of ~160K concurrent players for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good call, I bet that's likely it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting that it's world, and not rise. I know World is more popular on PC, but Rise is nice for the Deck.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are y'all getting BG3 to be tolerable on the deck? I've tried a few suggested settings but it always feels really bad :(

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is the list really by playtime on the Steam Deck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry guys that a Binding of Isaac placement is definitely me. I decided to finally beat all the bosses with every character and probably spent the whole month playing that game to do so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Palworld is so fucking addictive. Especially when you have a dedicated server with several friends in a guild all working together to hatch Uber monsters. Fun as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Vampire survivors just a silly little itch game I can get away with a quick game before my committments....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Stardew Valley is creeping up on being my most played Steam game of all time. Entirely on Deck. I am starting to loathe it a bit now though. I'm very late game, and it's super grindy. It's just so chill though, I have trouble putting it down. I love me some brain rattling difficult Souls games, but Stardew Valley just lets me completely zone out. I also get something close to seven hours of battery with it unlike anything demanding that kills it in 2 or 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder how Warframe is on it. Not really an oldschool shooter, but still got me to use M+KB over a controller.

[–] uymai 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Runs great for me— it’s how I’ve been playing it

Edit: cross save went life so I’m playing with all the stuff I collected on the ps4

[–] kelvie 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've played something like 800 hours on the Nintendo switch, it was fine except for some of the lock puzzles which are way easier on mouse.

You gotta use motion controls though (well depending on the frame I guess)

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