Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month, sorted by playtime.
I’m playing three of these… Telling that Diablo is not there
You play at least 20 different games per month?
I’m pretty sure this is all Steam Deck users on Steam. But I could be wrong.
I was wondering why you were apologizing then I saw you were down voted like crazy. To be clear, I didn’t downvote you. I can see why you would have initially thought this was from one person.
So a steam deck… Is this a handheld laptop or a streaming device to your computer?
It’s a handheld, standalone computer. It can do game streaming from a PC as well, but it’s powerful enough to run games like Fallout 4 at 40 FPS.
Is 40 acceptable? All I ever see is people complaining if it’s not 120 and I can’t tell if it’s just a meme or not. I play on console primarily for ease of use (I have toddlers), but I do have a pc that’s mid range that does well but I just feel so isolated from my family every time I sit at the computer. Thinking about the steam deck but I know next to nothing of it.
What you find acceptable is entirely based on your personal preference, how much you’ve already been exposed to higher specs, and how privileged you are in hardware, so some people are memeing and others are serious based on these. If console and mid-range pc gaming is all you know, the Steam Deck provides similar performance, and it’s a full on pc (with all the customization potential and non-gaming software availability you’d expect from a pc) in a handheld form factor, and a fairly console-like stock OS, if that’s appealing to you. But if you want 120-240 fps on latest AAA games, no, you won’t find the Steam Deck’s performance acceptable, but then also you wouldn’t be the target audience.
40 is a sweet spot between 30 and 60: feels much more smooth than 30, is much less demanding than 60. And by the way, 30 is acceptable too as long as it’s stable. Sure it will almost certainly feel less smooth than other options, but especially as you say you’re playing on console mostly… chances are you are already used to 30 fps. I, for example, feel the difference between 30 and 60 in Forza Horizon 5 (and the magic 40) but that’s not preventing me from doing well.
The one thing that I’m not sure has been mentioned yet, is that the Steam Deck targets 720p. The screen is small enough for that to work out fine.
Framerates are mostly a personal preference.
The Steam Deck has roughly the same gaming performance as a PS4, but it’s an actual PC so it can run all kinds of other software without hacky mods. It runs a version of Linux by default, but you could install Windows on it if that tickles your fancy.
People really play this many games in a month? Even when I played a lot I mostly focused on very few games.
I really want to enjoy games like Fallout or GTA on the Deck but compared to mouse/keyboard it’s just really bad. I cannot understand how so many people like to play games like CoD or Battlefield on consoles.
I’d prefer to be on the couch instead of at the desk, too. But FPS with controller is just worlds below mouse and keyboard.
