Valve just put up another of their round-up posts going over all the recent work on the Steam Deck, and they also revealed the current most popular titles.
For regular readers this won't be news since I go over the changes often but it's still a good catch-up for those who have fallen a bit behind on the news. Some of what's new includes the lock screen, multiple window support, keyboard improvements, external display upgrades, per-application performance profiles, improved fan behaviour and more. Check out their video:
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As for what's popular based on user play-time (source), over the last month these were the most popular on Steam Deck
- Elden Ring
- Vampire Survivors
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Stardew Valley
- No Man's Sky
- Slay the Spire
- Hades
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Aperture Desk Job
Valve was keen to point out that it's not just because of Steam Deck upgrades or Proton, but effort directly from developers too and four of those titles were previously listed as Unsupported or Playable until they got updated to be Verified. They're making a clear and obvious point: if developers get their games supported, players are more likely to buy them and spend time in them — not exactly a big surprise. Plenty of us just want to play games and not have to tinker so hopefully more will get cracking on updating their games.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: TheSHEEEPQuoting: ZeloxSo there is no reason to even boot in to windows anymore, except for work then.I don't even do that atm, I just run Windows inside of a VM if there's something requiring Windows (e.g. client needs a program to run under Windows).
But of course, that does require a bit beefier PC to run essentially two OS at the same time...
Could try that, but I dont think we are allowed to install linux on our work laptops. Technicly i dont own it, its our companys.
Next will probably be God of War.
slaapliedje Jun 4, 2022
Quoting: GuestI like the steam hw survery screen at 2:39 in the video showing on deck: "No touch input detected"Yeah, I had my survey on it last night and noticed that too. Rather amusing.
Philadelphus Jun 4, 2022
Quoting: Liam DaweDid an update, the top 10 list is now sorted by play-time as a Valve dev on Twitter showed it.Ahhhh, okay, that ordering makes more sense to me now.
Quoting: slaapliedjeSo if No Man's Sky is verified... anyone try hooking up the Index to the Deck to see if they can play that in VR?Thank you for giving me my first full-throated, out-loud laugh of the day. Not laughing at your question, but more laughing thinking to myself, "Linux gamers are awesome."
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