I got an OLED 1 TB for my birthday yesterday and I’m looking for titles I can download to play when I’m off shore on a ship. I like FPS games but am always looking for the next adventure. What do you suggest?

Edit- are there any Lemmy communities I should be checking out too? Aside from this one?

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    31·
    9 months ago

    Portal 1 and 2. The spin off Aperture Desk Job is also an introductory game for the Steam Deck, explaining all the controls.

    Apart from that there should be a top games played on Steam Deck somewhere around here.

    When you start playing shooters on the Deck try to get comfortable with gyro aiming and maybe flick stick. Many games don’t have aim assist on the PC, so aiming with a stick is harder than on consoles.

    • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      I did a full playthrough of Hollow Knight when I got my OLED deck (except some of the extra Godhome challenge stuff). It was gorgeous and got 8-9 hours of play from a full charge. Highly recommended.

    • moody@lemmings.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Both of those games are at the top of their genres. They are fantastic games, and they do play great on the Deck.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    17·
    9 months ago

    Fallout New Vegas is awesome, an FPS with RPG elements, that has brilliant humor and huge replayability

    Dishonored is a great game where you deal with stealth and magic super powers in a steampunk setting.

    The Outer Worlds is a short FPS with RPG elements, it is made by the people who made Fallout New Vegas and is set in a Sci-Fi future in space.

    Forza Horizon 4 is a lovely open world racing game set in a fictional UK.

    Forza Horizon 5 is the follow up to 4 and is set in Mexico, I find it more boring than 4

    Myst (2021), a remake of the classic adventure game from the early 90s, made by the original creator of Myst, Cyan.

    OpenRA, play the original Command & Conquer games Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on modern computers with working online multiplayer for free.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        7·
        9 months ago

        https://openra.net

        Open RA, or Open Red Alert is a version of the old classic stratergy game from the 90s that is free and open source.

        OpenRA has two main games built in, Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert, both are alternate history but in slightly different universes.

        In the Tiberium universe a meteor containing a new minneral called Tiberium crashed into the earth, thw Tiberium minneral started growing and chaging the earth, there are two factions, the mysterious Brotherhood of Nod, and the UN lead GDI who fights for control over the minneral.

        In the Red Alert universe Albert Einstein travelled back in time to kill Hitler, this changed the outcome of WWII and the Soviet Union is now attacking the West.

        In both games you take on the task of a commander for either side to ensure victory on the battleflied.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 months ago

    Hades

    Dead Cells

    Halls of Torment

    Bloodstained

    Vampire Survivor

    Backpack Hero

    Megaman/megamanx collections(just picked these up from.a humblebundle if they are still available)

    Brutal Legends

    EmuStation(bit of a setup on this but worth it if you want to emulate things)

    Edit: why the ever loving hell cant i do single line? Double enter is dumb

  • biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work
    11·
    9 months ago

    Risk of Rain 2. It’s actually not First person, but Third person shooter. There’s endless content due to the random nature. It’s very difficult in the beginning imo but gets better as you learn the game and how to curate your items a bit

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    10·
    9 months ago

    Deep Rock Galactic

    It’s an FPS, it plays great on the Deck, it supports simultaneous mouse and gamepad (so you can have faster/precise aiming but still use game controls), and it’s tons of fun.

    Get Heroic Launcher to add games from GoG, Epic, and Amazon Gaming (make sure to turn off Steam Runtime, Esync, and the anti-cheats in your settings; turn on per each game if you need them).

    And keep an eye on !freegamefindings@lemmit.online and !freegames@feddit.uk

    • Bugger@mander.xyz
      4·
      9 months ago

      Seconding this, at first I thought it was obtuse and overly difficult. But once you get a feel for how the synergies work it’s amazing. Despite the simple structure it’s a much deeper and more mechanically complex game than Vampire Survivors, and you have a lot more control over your builds.

      On the other hand it’s a positively insidious timewaster. (But isn’t that the point?) I certainly never expected to get 100 hours of fun out of it, but that’s what happened.

      As for FPS, visually simpler stuff is perhaps easier to enjoy on the small screen. I highly recommend Amid Evil if you enjoy classic Quake style shooters. I used it to teach myself how to effectively play shooters with the touchpads, which can be a tough hill to climb but definitely pays off. Don’t be afraid to play with the control settings through Steam; personally I run 175% sensitivity, no accel or haptics, with high friction trackball to help quickly change directions. It took a few hours to figure out what worked but once you get a feel for what’s comfortable for you personally it only takes a couple minutes per game to dial in the control settings.

  • Sabin10@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 months ago

    On top of all the great suggestions here I’d like to point out that the deck is a great emulation machine. Everything up to the ps2 era runs flawlessly but it can also do pretty well with Wii u, ps3 and Switch emulation too but performance will vary from title to title.

    It’s also a great fallback in case the deck gets unhappy about not having a network connection (YMMV but some people have pretty bad issues with this) and steam games won’t start. Non steam games work just fine regardless of whether or not you have an internet connection.

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Cannot second this recommendation enough. 90% of what I use my Deck for is playing old Nintendo games.

      You can use EmuDeck to add all of your ROMs to your library as if they were Steam games. It uses RetroArch, so you can also enable achievements for pretty much every game by logging into retroachievements.org

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    First of all, make a habit of checking IsThereAnyDeal before getting any PC game. There are lots of PC game stores, many selling Steam keys for less than Steam. Or you could get a bundle with some games you like, some you would never think of, for less than the price of 1. Right now I think Fanatical is about the best of the bundlers, Humble sometimes has good stuff too.

    You might want to get more of your games on GoG than Steam. It’s a little more work to set up Heroic to handle GoG, but after that it is pretty close to automatic. Once you have a GoG game working, it is never going to say “I know there is an update out there and I refuse to play until you download all 50 ziggabytes of it on your tethering”.

    I’m not particularly fond of FPSes, so I can’t help you there. If you haven’t already played Batman Arkham or the new Tomb Raider games on a console, catch up on those? The Humble Mind-Bending Masterpieces bundle is fantastic, being stuck on a couple of puzzles and having them roll around in your mind during dull ship duties could work together. Fanatical’s 3 for $5 BYO Relentless bundle has Red Faction Guerilla, Void Scrappers, Graveyard Keeper or Neverinth?

  • buffaloseven@fedia.io
    7·
    9 months ago

    Yakuza 0 is a great entry point to the series and runs really well on the Steam Deck. I recently finished Dredge and really enjoyed it on the Deck. Lonely Mountain Downhill is a enjoyable skill-based mountain biking game that’s a lot of fun to explore and has a ton of content. Snowrunner is a chill game that works well on the Deck too…it’s kinda like Dark Souls for trucks, but meditative. Hollow Knight is great and looks really good on the OLED screen. Pretty much any of the Fallout games are a good choice; New Vegas is probably the best overall but you’ll need to use Desktop Mode to get some community patches in there while Fallout 4 is not as good story-wise but has better moment-to-moment gameplay feel. Hades is a great run-based roguelike that looks and works great on the Deck. I played the entirety of Jedi Fallen Order on the Steam Deck and it was great. Dead Cells and Scourgebringer are great action roguelikes that feel great to play and run well on the Deck. And while Baldurs Gate 3 is Larian’s latest triumph, it can run into performance issues in the latter half of the game on the Deck; Divinity: Original Sin 2 was their prior game and it runs very well on the Deck and is a great game in its own right.

    There’s probably a lot more, but that’s off the top of my head!

    • msage@programming.dev
      2·
      9 months ago

      Just FYI - Yakuza 4 and 5 are not verified on the Deck, which if you want to finish the series, is kind of a bummer.

      I played 0-4 on PC, but then I got a deck, so I moved to Like a Dragon instead of Yakuza 5 :/

  • belikewater@infosec.pub
    6·
    9 months ago

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise, if you’re familiar with modding you can make the games look even better. Try to play the first 3 games in chronological order before jumping into GAMMA or Anomaly. HBD btw!

    • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      The text isn’t too small for Deck? Inventory management is okay too? I love the series but it’s far from the first thing that comes to mind for me on handheld.

      • belikewater@infosec.pub
        1·
        9 months ago

        When I played them it wasn’t that small. For the inventory cells I didn’t find them too small but if you do you can make them bigger with a mod.

      • belikewater@infosec.pub
        1·
        9 months ago

        Technically just drag and drop files on the game folder lol. That and installing dependencies with protontricks once in a while.

    • LittleLordFauntleroy@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      Played them all but got the itch to play Anomaly or other mods after seeing some of the cool stuff they doing. Will give this a try 👍

  • the16bitgamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Oh and for games that will just kill your down time (if that’s what you are looking for).

    With mouse and Keyboard

    • Civilization 5 or 6
    • Cities Skylines
    • Jurassic World Evolution
    • Kerbal Space Program

    With just a gamepad

    • Elder Scrolls 4/5
    • Fallout 3/4/New Vegas (in order)
    • GTA San Andreas (though if you can PCSX2 with the widescreen patch)
    • Batman Arkham Asylum/City/Knight
    • Saints Row 2/3/4
    • Watch_Dogs (can’t say how nice UPlay will be with no login)

    With multiple controllers (and friends)

    • TMNT Shredders Revenge
    • Castle Crashers
    • LEGO [INSERT FRANCHISE HERE]
    • Most ROM bundles like Disney Afternoon, Capcom Arcade Stadium, Sega Genesis Collection etc.