Hello peeps. Life’s thrown me some curve-balls recently, and I’d like a bit of an escape. Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock for the steam deck, that isn’t 25 or 30 quid please? Something on offer for less than a tenner would be ideal. I’m sure there are some great older RPGs out there that I’ve missed, the Deck is the first time I’ve got back into gaming for quite a few years, and while I’m sure I could quite happily just play Brotato for the next few years, I reckon there’s something a bit more immersive out there for me to find!
This fits your price requirement and is a nice chill game to just lose yourself in and perfect for the deck IMO.
A Short Hike. Currently €6.59 in Europe.
Hope things improve for you soon.
One of the first games I played on deck and I look back on it very fondly, a perfect deck game.
The Dishonored series is amazing and is usually pretty cheap when on sale. A couple bucks at most, maybe.
Another immersive sim to recommend would be Prey. The DLC is really good too
I would like to second Prey. It is very cheap during a sale.
It’s currently on sale on epic store if you don’t mind that/already have heroic launcher or similar on the steam deck.
Dishonoured 2 plays like garbage on the deck. I found it too graphics intensive and had to crank everything WAY down.
Dishonoured 1 plays like a dream though.
That’s surprising. Would have thought the game to be “old enough” to perform well on the Deck.
Same. The last time I tried it was over a year ago so perhaps a proton update fixed it or improved it. It’s worth testing again.
The Dishonoured looks great, and I’ve had Prey on my wish list for a while, thanks
+1 for Dishonoured if you haven’t gotten it yet. Especially the first one, one of my all time favourites. Highly recommended
If you want a big open world game, I can recommend Mad Max, you can find it in fanatical (a legal and trusted store) for $2.49. I had a lot of fun with it and it will give you tons of hours of fun.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/mad-max
I actually recommend you that site for steam keys since they often do bundles very cheap to help your library grow without spending a fortune.
I’ve really been enjoying Kingdom Come: Deliverance and swapping between my PC and SteamDeck. It runs pretty well on the Deck. Reminds me of how I felt playing Skyrim. Excited to get to the sequel.
Have you played the BioShock series?
valheim and skyrim
i am a much more relaxed gamer on the deck and oh boy these games have such a satisfying layer to them when just vibing there. spent an hour hiking the mistlands for the vibe last week
valheim is a bit more on the expensive side but skyrim is often for sale at like 10 bux
Valheim is often on sale at $10 as well.
Valheim is a great game to just relax, chilling in the meadows, building and exploring.
How good is Valheim for solo play? I’m on the fence about getting it myself for the deck.
It’s great solo!
It’s my goto game when I’m a bit stressed and just want to change my mind and relax.
Yakuza zero has been great on the steam deck for me. I think it kinda straddles the line between immersive sim while mostly being a brawler.
Batman Arkham series runs well.
Maybe kotor? Knights of the old republic.
Oh my god, I didn’t even think to look for KOTOR, what am I doing?! I loved that game! Brilliant, thank you
Kotor 1 plays weird on PC but I’ve had some good experiences running an Xbox emulator and playing the Xbox version on my deck.
