Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the April 2024, sorted by playtime
The biggest surprise is fallout 76. I thought it was universally disliked? Is it the fallout TV show causing it?
The TV show for sure helps. But people are playing it because they like it. There was a ton of work put into the game since its original release.
Considering every Fallout game from the last two decades made top 20, I'd say yeah it's probably the show lol.
It has a really bad release. A few patches in, it turned into a good enough game. It's still nowhere near as good as the heyday of Fallout with 2 and Tactics, but it's a good enough game.
Does it feel like a Fallout game yet? I remember playing it and kind of hoped it would feel like a co-op Fallout, but it's just another survival and crafting game.
To be fair, most Fallout games at this point don't feel like "Fallout."
I tried playing it, at least a year after release? And within minutes I had no idea what I was supposed to "do" to where to "go" - it just dropped you. I mean to a point that's "open world", a genre I enjoy, but something was just missing.
how did u miss the quest to look for the overseer? or at least the wayward quest
Must be, FO3, FO4, and FO:NV are all present too
FO4 also got an update to add an Enclave mission.
I've noticed that the games that dominate this list every month are very long games designed to suck players into their gameplay loops for hundreds of hours. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes me wonder if there are short games that are very popular, yet get left off of this list just because they end in 10 hours. I would like to see a top 20 list sorted by number of players rather than playtime.
Surprised to see The Witcher 3 still on that list. And the fact that Stardew Valley is number one also is surprising to me.
It would have been interesting to see the actual total hours for each game as well.
Stardew Valley just got a huge update recently, I don't find it that surprising! It's a great update.
Stardew valley released a new version recently and there are a lot of mods for it
Witcher 3 player here, was on my to play list for a long time, plays really nicely on the deck and is a long play
Hades and Isaac are surprising. They're both old enough that I would have thought they wouldn't be flush with players right now. The fallout stuff makes sense, given its fanbase and the show's influence. I wonder if I should go back and try to 100% either of them now...
I think news of Hades 2 development might be sparking some interest
Isaac was the first game downloaded on my deck and is still a daily comfort game.
Balatro is a legal drugs.
I got Balatro but I didn't get the hype, can you offer some advice on how to enjoy it?
Edit: from the replies I have gathered I just nerd to play it more, thanks all!
It's kinda complicated I also didn't get it at first playthorugh. But more I play more I get hooked.
I don't think it clicked big time until about 10 hours in for me. I feel like I'm finally mastering it at 40 hours, but I'm sure I haven't discovered every play style yet.
My advice would probably be to try every wild idea for a deck. It's easy to find one deck build that basically works and try to recreate it each run, but that's pretty boring. Make yourself pick up a joker you wouldn't normally use and try to make it work. Also go for planet cards early in the run, the boost they give often moves the hand up like 4 places on the score list, making it more viable and fun to do something other than just chasing the regular high scoring hands.
Balatro made me have a 7/4 rhythm playing in my head 24/7
This is only because they exclude me as an outlier putting in ten thousand hours of Project Zomboid on the Deck.
Helldivers 2 on higher difficulties has me hitting 15fps sometimes. It's so damn tough to play on steam deck because of the quality, but it's honestly amazing it runs half decent at all.
Hmm that's weird, emulation station is missing :)
This list is badly missing Rimworld.
Kinda awkward on steamdeck no? Small screen and all
Not at all. I heard mixed things about Rimworld on the deck. Most of it was about the controller schema.
Reality is (for me) that it plays great. The controls by default are well assigned and it works well.
The screen size isn’t an issue for me either. It’s mostly subjective but for me it’s a knock out.
I've been gaming fairly strictly on deck for everything, even if I have to trial and error a custom control scheme. That said, I'm switching to desktop for bg3. I keep missing details that actually have visual cues I didn't know about until someone actually pointed them out to me.
I’m surprised by Helldivers. I can’t imagine that it runs very well.
Red Dead Redemption 2 has been on this list since the release of the steam deck because the 3 people still trying to play that game on the deck haven't finished loading the world yet
Definitely gonna have to install NV on my deck that finally arrived yesterday and see how good it is on deck... even though I am still nowhere near done with my melee build on my desktop and will need to copy all my bug fixing mods and settings from there as well.
Maybe I'll do an unarmed build where I side with Yes Man while taking out as many factions as possible.
Ok, what am I doing wrong that Fallout 3 isn't working? It just crashes on start.
Honestly, if you own new Vegas have a look at tale of two wastelands. It ports over all of fallout 3 into the new Vegas engine, and with it brings all the upgrades that the nv engine has, like stability (after installing the 20 or so mods needed), iron sights, and all the increased mod support fnv has.
It’s the same games for the most part.
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