Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month, sorted by playtime.
Worth noting that Steam doesn’t track playtime for non-Steam games. So this doesn’t include Minecraft, Retroarch, or anything purchased through Itch, GOG, or Epic.
No doubt Fortnite would be somewhere on this list. Minecraft too. Not sure what else would be a guarantee.
Ah that’s a good point. I main Windows myself on Deck, due to Game Pass, so I forget about that side of things.
Edit: The amount of downvotes I got just for mentioning using Windows on Deck…
Do you think any of such games would be in the list?
I’d imagine only a smaller subset of people even set up their Steam Deck for third party games.
I dunno, I feel like the Steam Deck’s core audience is “people who liked the Switch’s form factor but also like mods and third-party launchers.”
I think that’s what we see and may be misattributing of a small active subset that is very technical and invested.
It’s on the steam store. I’m sure many people buy and play, and don’t ever read or write on a community like this. They’re “invisible” here, but impact if not dominate the playtime ranking.
The fact the SteamDeck can play all of these at decent graphics and FPS in their full fat PC version still blows my mind
I honestly reach for it more than my Xbox or switch. it’s easy to pick up and put down. easy to charge. and stuff runs fine on it.
It’s not for everybody, but I love my deck.
I was skeptical at first and I finally gave in two weeks ago and it arrived last week.
I love my Steam Deck, this seems dumb but I actually use it to stream my ps5 and more intensive PC games. It easier to move around and pick up and put down. I’ve started to play games I bought years ago. Finished Limbo and Inside and playing Bioshock Remastered.
that’s not dumb at all, it’s a great use for it! I had planned to make mine strictly an emulation device (which it’s amazing for) until I realized how well it handled bigger titles. not perfectly by any stretch, but mostly smooth and playable.
I had never played any of the fallout games and I’ve had a blast with new Vegas and fallout 4. I’d owned them for years but just never got around to it.
if only I could stop playing bg3 for long enough to get through some more of my backlog…
I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on my Steam Deck since release, it’s been such a great experience I can not recommend it enough, I never thought I would be able to play such a great game confortably from my bed on a “handheld” (?).
Ehh… Starfield chugs on my Steam Deck to the point where the slowdowns make it practically unplayable. >.<
Very true, I should’ve thought more clearly about this specifics of some of these. Pretty sure it’s literally only up there because either people are trying to fix it and this constantly launching it / having it open makes it #2… or it’s just up there because it’s new and very popular
I know for a fact I dumped a good 2+ hours into it on my Deck trying to get it playable. XD
Please add text content for accessibility and discoverability to a post like this.
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- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Starfield
- Cyberpunk 2077
- ELDEN RING
- ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
- Stardew Valley
- Sea of Stars
- No Man’s Sky
- Vampire Survivors
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- DAVE THE DIVER
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Brotato
- Slay the Spire
- Fallout 4
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- Hades
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Top 20 Steam Deck games of September 2023, by hours played
No hate. Just disappointment at inaccessibility :) I can’t read the picture. But I can read the text. That’s why.
Sounds like something that needs a bot. Transcribing every meme you want to post and source is just asinine lol.
Reviews of starfield on steamdeck: probably not the best experience maybe stick to more powerful devices
Average Steamdeck user: fuckin watch me, peasant.
I wonder if hours spent playing using Remote Play on the Deck counts towards the total.
While I prefer Sunrise/Moonlight, playing Starfield using streaming off your main gaming PC is a pretty good experience!
Moonlight is unreasonably capable. I initially dismissed it when I had shoddy performance between a wireless desktop and the steam deck. Then I set up tailscale and tried it outside the home during a lunch break, it was impossibly smooth. I thought maybe it was something to do with the fiber at my work. So I tried it at a friend’s place in the next town over with the same ISP, impossibly smooth.
Now I’m in the process of overhauling my home network to figure out why it’s better outside my home.
It’s probably a result of wireless interference somewhere between the deck and the desktop. I also had a really bad experience with remote play and sunlight/moonlight before I hardwired my desktop to the router via an Ethernet cable. Just making that one part of the chain wired completely solved my issues.
Hmm, because that makes me wonder if they also count it as a play for the host machine.
Also, how common is steamlink use? Would love to see how much it’s utilised on the deck/steam in general. I tried it myself but unless your host is connected over Ethernet it’s a bit on the slow side.
My thoughts exactly.
I absolutely love my Steam Deck. But playing even Cyberpunk on it made me run back to my PC.
I wonder how many steamdecks are owned by people who dont have another option for a gaming device that supports games like Cyberpunk and Starfield.
My lil bro is playing starfield on the steamdeck rn since he can’t play it on his main PC tbf.
Yea that’s might be it, it is the case for me at least. Cyberpunk 2.0 and BG runs quite okay for me on Steam deck, so I am not compelled to update my PC yet.
Of course on PC it would always be much better, but I am holding on to setup a home office setup in my apartment first and that might not happen soon.
NMS works really well on Steam Deck! Low/med settings limited to 40 fps, getting 2 to 2.5 hrs battery life and the fan is barely spinning.
Yeh I played it for 4 or 5 hours upon release and then threw the disc in the garbage when gamestop wouldn’t give me a refund or take it as a trade in.
Great to see all the updates but I still feel robbed and refuse to pick it up again because I’m stubborn.
