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.
Fortnite can’t be played unless you’re running windows
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…
I main Windows
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The guy just shared how they use a device they bought with their money. You don’t need to gatekeep. Or whatever this is.
It’s not gatekeeping, it’s just an opinion (his and mine). If anything, the gate is open on linux and closed on windows.
omg puke puke you like something different than me gross ew.
Wah wah snark exists my fragile world collapses because mean
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.
Emulation Station might, since a lot of people use it as a frontend for their emulators. Since ES runs in a separate window while you play, all the time spent playing emulated games would all add to ES’s total.
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.
- under Home -> Power, select “Desktop Mode.”
- Open Steam in desktop mode, and go to your Library.
- Select a game, and go to Properties -> Local Files.
- a file browser should open and show the game files just like you’d see on PC.
I plan to add the GOG version of Cyberpunk once I get an SSD.
The fact the SteamDeck can play all of these at decent graphics and FPS in their full fat PC version still blows my mind
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
See? Hahaha, hopefully it’ll be smooth as butter in future. Here’s to hoping for ya
Yeah I wouldn’t recommend Starfield on the Deck at this point. It’s a bit too unstable to be enjoyable.
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” (?).
Right?? A great experience on a game that literally just released and is HUUGE
Even a theoretical Switch Pro probably couldn’t keep up 😂
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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
Thanks for that. Really hate images that are just data… :(
Don’t hate me bro :)
No hate. Just disappointment at inaccessibility :) I can’t read the picture. But I can read the text. That’s why.
The post you replied to saying “don’t hate me bro” has an image of Data from Star Trek TNG (you had said that you hate images that are only data)
:)
Isn’t there a bot for that?
I see no such bot comment. Do you?
Not what i said. I mean it in an isnt there a bot that could do that task automatically . Like the summary bot.
Sounds like something that needs a bot. Transcribing every meme you want to post and source is just asinine lol.
This is not a meme though…
Not really the point either is it? It’s about technical ability, not what the image says.
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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.
I am absolutely some of that NMS time. I just run it at default, and I get about an hour. Which is great, because after that I really should take a break.
And the Witcher!
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.
I tried it when it hit Game Pass years ago and had the same experience. Although people tout the expansions as game changing I found it incredibly dull.
Crazy that Binding of Isaac is still in there, it’s been years since the last release and it’s not really in the public consciousness the same way something like Vampire Survivors is. Fantastic game though, happy to see it continue to succeed
Probably because the new one is getting a lot of press and people go back to it
Edmund said there’s will be a normal online coop, finally.
sidenote, it’s pretty telling to the state of games that GTA V and RDR2 is still there. id love to see these listed by release year.
Replayability is fantastic, keeps me coming back.
I wish it would go on sale… ever. I’ve bought it multiple times across several platforms now, I really don’t want to spend $60 trying to get all the DLC on PC
Dave the Diver is such a gem
I played about 8 games in a row that I couldn’t get into until I found this one. It is definitely enjoyable.
So proud of Skyrim, GTA-V and Fallout-4 holding strong decades after their release. They could be the most played games of the century
I think their age is also an advantage on the Deck. Since the requirements are lower they run better then new AAA games.
Wait starfield works on SD? I thought it was too slow. Has there been a new patch?
Mods + cryoutilities has it running pretty dang good!
I actually went on vacation the day it released. I installed it on my deck to be able to play when at the hotel. I put 14 hours in starfield on my deck. It’s PLAYABLE but not really ENJOYABLE. You have to turn it down to almost the lowest setting to play it reliably.
I played like 80 hours on steam deck. I don’t think it’s as optimized as Todd claims (RDR2 is much older and looks much better), but it plays alright.
No mods or anything, just settings tweaks.
I did not know you could play with a controller on PC. Is thist a steam customization for the deck ? (When I plug my xbox controller nothing happens in control settings or anywhere)
I honestly couldn’t tell you how it works. Maybe check input settings in game? The game isn’t verified on deck so I wouldn’t think steam has done anything specific to make the controller work.
I found it playable but being completely honest, the graphic settings are the lowest and while it looks fine enough for things nearby… shooting at enemies more than a few meters away means aiming under their name. Due to dumb circumstances making my gaming pc unavailable, I’m currently playing it “on my Mac” through GeForce Now.
I had no idea vampire survivor was such a hit. Feels like that would be a great handheld game.
It’s available on mobile apps stores I believe.
It runs fine in a browser for free as well.
One Day I will finish Cookie Clicker. One day I will be free.
I installed a mod that didn’t play super well with my other mods. It got me to finally say I was done.
Starfield ? How ?
It’s just for one month
But how can a steamdeck run starfield ?
Keep in mind, theres a giant community behind yhe steamdeck, and if a game allows mods(especially bethesdas), theres always a modder who has a modlist for tweaks specifically for the deck.
I think it runs almost playably out of the box, so I would imagine it would work actually playably with a few mods, e.g. to adjust settings not accessible through graphics presets and to enable disk I/O cache.
On low, but pretty well.
The benefit of a smaller screen is that you need less resolution to make it look half decent and with all the optimizing valve does with proton i imagine its quite playable. But the way graphics where implemented in star-field is shit and there are no excuses.
upscaling algos
It looks a bit🥔 and requires some ini file tweaking, but I can get get playable FPS out of it, 30-ish for the most part
Good point
Poorly
I think these would be better if they worked like ratings charts and showed relative changes since last month.
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.
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I hope you like looking at ceilings and floors a lot
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If you think precision in aim is a bad thing, sure.
I can always tell when a user is on a controller.
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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.
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That wasn’t an easy game. But it didn’t require the accuracy today’s competitive FPS shooters do. Even Duke Nukem 3D was pretty cool back then. Was super easy to hit your targets though.
I just had this horrific dream where my mouse input was functioning like a controller. I think it was PTSD from the days of aiming more with the characters movement than the joysticks.
Still dominated though. Headshots ftw
Aim assist
Glad that Sea of Stars is so high on the list!
Average steam deck
OK Sisyphus
Hades was so good
