Fucking skyrim never dies!
My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.
Say what you will about Bethesda and Skyrim, but they must have done something right because people still can't put it down over a decade later. I do want to play it at some point, but I don't know when I'll have that kind of time.
Linked is an image of text. It's bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:
Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played
- Baldur's Gate 3
- ELDEN RING
- DAVE THE DIVER
- Stardew Valley
- Vampire Survivors
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Brotato
- Fallout 4
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Slay the Spire
- Hades
- HoloCure - Save the Fans!
- Remnant II
- Halls of Torment
At the bottom it does say “…by hours played” indicating it’s in ranked order.
"top 20 by hours played" doesn't specify order though, does it? Sure, it's expected. But not explicit. I guess you expect "20 most played games" otherwise?
I just love that binding of Isaac is still doing so well
The fact that you can play it with all the infinite goodness from the Workshop is a really strong selling point because it's thus the only mobile version of Isaac that is actually up to date + modded compared to mobile/console versions.
Halls of Torment
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
glad to see it sneaking up on the list here, looking forward to updates
I’m surprised too! Feels like this game came out of nowhere and still has lots of room to grow, good for the devs.
There's my 80+ hours of Stardew Valley in the past week lol
Making a difference!!!
shoutout to all the brotato mains
Amazed to see Holocure on there, pretty good going for a fan project
seeing fallout 4 and skyrim still doing so well brings a smile to my face, at the time i genuinely bought a ps4 so i could play them
Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong
Set resolution to 900p, turn all settings to low or off (especially Antialiasing and god rays) except for textures at medium and the AMD upscaling to ultra high quality. Enable slow HDD mode if you installed the game to an SD card. Increase text size.
Runs very smooth for me.
Turn off FSR. I've got 30 hours into it and prefer it on deck over PC.
Try turning off FSR in the graphics settings, it looks much better and clearer with it off.
Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.
I've been happily adding to Dave the Diver's numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.
It is amazing how every time you think "surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer" it fires off another bonkers event.
Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old
Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It's OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it's OK to play older games.
It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
-Baldur's Gate 3
-Dave the Diver
-Armored Core 6
-Holocure
-Remnant 2
If I'm counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years
Yeah, I didn't search. Just did the ones I immediately recognized as recent big budget ones.
It's the Steam Deck. Older games are gonna run better.
Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.
I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn't expect this list to be filled with new releases.
Glad to see Stardew Valley in the list 😊
It's been awesome to see the success of Vampire Survivors. Such a technically simple idea that's so much fun!
WTF is Dave the Diver?
Really cute and relaxing game. Lots of charm and perfect for the steam deck. In this game youre a dude named Dave, a diver, who catches fish by day and works in a sushi bar by night. I stopped playing zelda totk for this haha.
Surprised to see Brotato so high.
Not because the game is bad, it's amazing, I love it on the Deck. But I didn't know it was that popular and I thought Vampire Survivors had obfuscated it. Glad to see it represented!
Brotato kicks ass
Gotta assume those BG3 Steam Deck numbers are gonna tank as people get into acts 2 and 3. Act 1 runs quite well on deck, but no amount of low settings or disabled features provides an acceptable level of performance.
I’m on act 3. The performance level is acceptable to me. 30fps/1080p (docked) on low settings.
I’m having more bugged quest or game does not want to detect your mouse right now problems than graphics or performance ones.
Have you played since the 2nd patch in the last few days? From what I've heard it's a reasonable improvement but I haven't booted it up yet.
I’m really surprised to see Baldurs Gate 3 so high, as I’ve heard it doesn’t run too well on Deck.
I’ve been playing it nonstop on my pc, but don’t want to spend time downloading it on the Deck if it doesn’t run well and devours my battery. Is it better than I’ve been hearing?
I play it pretty much exclusively on my Deck and haven’t run into any performance issues that have bothered me. Patch 2 made things noticeably smoother so I expect it to get even better over time. I haven’t hit act 3 yet though and that seems to be where most people have problems in general.
Turning off FSR is a must if you don’t want a blurry mess.
Honestly I know the Deck can run recent and current AAA titles but I generally have had just as much fun playing low-demand games like Stardew, Dead Cells, Caveblazers, etc.
Does anyone else have Halls of Tournament regularly crash on their steam deck normally when they’ve got about five minutes or less in a run? It’s like 30-50% of the time for me.
I love the game but the crashing (and loss of progress) sucks. I need to pick up Vampire Survivors since I know it’s similar and look fun.
Steam Deck
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