Potioncraft: Alchemist Simulator. Love the mechanics, it’s like what I wished Strange Horticulture would be when I first picked it up.

Dynasty Warriors Origin. Plays surprisingly well on the deck for the amount of enemies on screen. To my surprise, the game even has a Steam Deck preset.

LEGO Bricktales it reminds me of Captain Toad but with brick building puzzles. Good fun.

Balatro - trying to beat black stakes on blue deck currently

Black Book - fun little deck building game with surprising depth when it comes to lore, I’d day the amount of game mechanics makes it a wide but shallow game, it’s not a bad thing, it’s easy to get into, easy to play, and gives just enough to have this RPG feeling

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor - haven’t played in a long time so I just discovered the new biome, beautiful, and I like the new challenges, I still think it’s the superior “survivor” game, but I’m afraid once it comes out of early access, the genre as a whole will be out of fashion

Animal Crossing for the Switch, at the moment.

Dragon’s Dogma 1

Just got Risk of Rain 2 and am enjoying it much more than I thought I would! Usually shooters aren’t my thing.

Thinking of firing it up and trying Kirby air ride with my wife. My daughter is way to Needy for me to play anything real.

I am flying the shit out of attack and transport helis in Operation Harsh Doorstop on my steam deck which is truly a joy to fly with. The helis are fairly realistic which means flying them like a maniac is addictive as hell .

I have also been playing a lot more pvp Beyond All Reason as I continue to get more comfortable with playing using onboard joysticks and gyro controls. The biggest problem I have is RTS players can’t wrap their head around me not using a mouse (they aren’t very imaginative I guess, I don’t understand). This means that in situations my control scheme is less efficient than a mouse, players have ZERO patience with me but in the situations where joysticks + gyro is more efficient than mouse (certain types of micro, also placing buildings accurately but quickly) people either think I am a much higher level player trolling or that I am drunk or something because my cursor movements just don’t look like a mouse is doing them.

sigh just gotta wait longer until stuffy pc gamers who think a mouse is the only way actually shut up and listen, not holding my breath…

https://flathub.org/apps/info.beyondallreason.bar

Three games I played recently:

Among Ashes - Somewhat short, but ended up being quite good. It does a good job at building tension and generally doesn’t rely on cheap jump scares.

10 Dead Doves - One of the few games I that made me want to play through a second time. Interesting story, some funny moments, emotional moments, good voice acting. I highly recommend this one.

In Sound Mind - This was sitting in my backlog for a while and I wasn’t really expecting much, but I ended up really enjoying this one too. The ending even had me feeling emotional, which is very rare, but

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Hollow Knight; I’m playing it for the first time and I’ve progressed enough to get the true ending, but I’m going to do some of the side content before I do. Probably not 100%ing, I’ve already struggled to get this far, but I’ll try to get every charm and finish the Troupe before finishing off my playthrough. It’s a great game, and I’m definitely excited to play Silksong, if that manages to release within my lifetime.

Cassette Beasts. I tried Brotato its okay but I’m not as much of a fan.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and I’m overwhelmed by the dexterity required in combat. KC:D has a really dirty combat system: Even if you’re doing everything right and unless the fight is decided very quickly, you’re gonna get some serious hits.

I’m playing Medabots: Kabuto for GBA. It’s a pretty fun although simple JRPG. It has a neat unit customization system, enjoyable story and great art/music.
Combat is unique in a way that can be a bit annoying (you only have a partial control on who to target) but it’s something one can get used to and work around to some extent.

I also installed The Sims 2 (Ultimate Collection, not the Legacy one) but I didn’t really spend much time playing it on the Deck (I usually default to my desktop playthrough). Based on a short test I did manage to do it seems to be working and controlling pretty well so that’s promising at least.

Edit: I spent some time playing TS2 on the Deck. Beyond some short freezes when browsing through larger lists of content (clothing, furniture etc) the game runs really good, as expected. Unfortunately I don’t find the controls on Deck to be comfortable enough to keep going - basic keyboard and mouse setup is the way for me with this one.