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Hi. So background is I'm 50 and I've not done much gaming since vice city and the original silent hills +unreal tournament. I'm trying to get back into it but I'm frustratingly crap.

I've got a steam deck and my neighbour has one too, we were looking for games we could play either head to head or cooperative. People suggested left 4 dead 2 and we managed to get that working through lobby thing but it was laggy and TBH it was a bit chaotic for us. Too much constant running and shooting and no time to pause for thought or discuss strategy.

I think we're looking for something with a bit of occasional violence but also some strategy - not just bang bang all the time. Maybe even something that doesn't involve violence at all. But we both working and only got an hour or two a day for game time.

Any suggestions?

First if it's possible to locally connect 2 steam decks (without a fuckin cable!). Second on what games might be fun. Needs to not have a big learning curve and be something we can just play for an hour or two when we have time.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. Cheers

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[-] morgan_423@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

If you like FPS's but also like a variety of mission types and being able to scale the difficulty, my suggestion is Deep Rock Galactic. Fantastic game... one of my friends and I play it every weekend. Takes about 30 minutes for the average two-player mission, up to maybe 45 at longest, so you can easily block out playtime.

Also, in general, regardless of what you're playing... you don't really need a LAN to play together, you can just friend each other on Steam and easily join each other's games that way. Even if you're both in your own residences, the voice chat tool in Steam is great for talking while playing games.

Looks great, thanks!

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Rock and stone!

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