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PayPalWhile every month Valve has been posting a fresh set of the most played Steam Deck games for the previous month, they've now added a dedicated Steam Chart for it. Like the most played for May and again for April.
So you no longer have to wait for Valve to post about what's currently hot, you can just go and see for yourself. Like other Steam Charts you can filter it and with the Steam Deck chart it lets you view the most played games over the last week, month and year based on player counts.
For example, this is for the last week, and handily it shows the Deck Verified rating too:
Clarifying the date periods, Valve posted on X/Twitter that "The data for these lists updates daily across a rolling time window. For example, on June 27th the Top 100 for “past week” would cover June 21st - June 27th.". They will be adding a note on the page to say so too.
If you look over the last year, it's impressive to see Baldur's Gate 3 remaining as the number one most played game on Steam Deck with DAVE THE DIVER in second and ELDEN RING in third place.
See more on the Steam Deck Steam Chart.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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No surprise that RPGs fit well on the deck.
Being able to sleep the machine and resume quickly is a big help for lengthy games plus playing them on the go.
Least for myself I rarely have the solid uninteruppted free time but plenty of smaller moments which is great for an arcade game run but lengthy stuff if I can't pause and resume I rarely finish even half.
Hope to see some competition in this space for the top Deck rpg.
Being able to sleep the machine and resume quickly is a big help for lengthy games plus playing them on the go.
Least for myself I rarely have the solid uninteruppted free time but plenty of smaller moments which is great for an arcade game run but lengthy stuff if I can't pause and resume I rarely finish even half.
Hope to see some competition in this space for the top Deck rpg.
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Very interesting.
How does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?
Last edited by emphy on 28 June 2024 at 2:43 am UTC
How does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?
Last edited by emphy on 28 June 2024 at 2:43 am UTC
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Quoting: shadow1w2No surprise that RPGs fit well on the deck.
Being able to sleep the machine and resume quickly is a big help for lengthy games plus playing them on the go.
Least for myself I rarely have the solid uninteruppted free time but plenty of smaller moments which is great for an arcade game run but lengthy stuff if I can't pause and resume I rarely finish even half.
Hope to see some competition in this space for the top Deck rpg.
Totally agree on the sleep and resume function for longer rpgs. I just can't fathom how people can play incredibly complex CRPGS like BG3 with cluttered interfaces on such a tiny screen with a controller. I spent a lot of time in bg3 in the "open all inventories" screen with every characters inventory open, and swapping items around. How would that even be possible on a handheld? There's so many other questions like that.
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Quoting: emphyHow does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?
By not using Steam!
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Quoting: shadow1w2No surprise that RPGs fit well on the deck.
Being able to sleep the machine and resume quickly is a big help for lengthy games plus playing them on the go.
Sleep and resume, yes. But I totally don't understand why you would want to play first-person rpgs like Fallout 4 on this a tiny screen. Also, I don't see how this works with the rather massive UI of BG3 -- and no mouse either.
Stardew Valley seems like a perfect fit, however, and so do most of the low-res jrpgs.
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Quoting: JarmerQuoting: shadow1w2No surprise that RPGs fit well on the deck.
Being able to sleep the machine and resume quickly is a big help for lengthy games plus playing them on the go.
Least for myself I rarely have the solid uninteruppted free time but plenty of smaller moments which is great for an arcade game run but lengthy stuff if I can't pause and resume I rarely finish even half.
Hope to see some competition in this space for the top Deck rpg.
Totally agree on the sleep and resume function for longer rpgs. I just can't fathom how people can play incredibly complex CRPGS like BG3 with cluttered interfaces on such a tiny screen with a controller. I spent a lot of time in bg3 in the "open all inventories" screen with every characters inventory open, and swapping items around. How would that even be possible on a handheld? There's so many other questions like that.
It takes lots of skills to get used to crammed interfaces on tiny screens
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[quote=Seegras]Sleep and resume, yes. But I totally don't understand why you would want to play first-person rpgs like Fallout 4 on this a tiny screen. Also, I don't see how this works with the rather massive UI of BG3 -- and no mouse either./quote]
I agree with the point, I also play decent games with a decent screen, but fwiw steam deck has touchscreen (and touchpads), so lack of mouse is no big deal for inventory management probably.
I don't get why binding of isaac is so popular by the way! That game is so clunky.
Last edited by ShabbyX on 28 June 2024 at 4:02 pm UTC
I agree with the point, I also play decent games with a decent screen, but fwiw steam deck has touchscreen (and touchpads), so lack of mouse is no big deal for inventory management probably.
I don't get why binding of isaac is so popular by the way! That game is so clunky.
Last edited by ShabbyX on 28 June 2024 at 4:02 pm UTC
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Quoting: emphyVery interesting.
How does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?
Rated by required skill level
1.
According to the forums switching to "offline mode" works.
2.
I've yet to find a good list of steam tracking domains, but you can at least block a substantial list of tracking domains without any further research.
3.
Filter this mythical blocklist, so you don't block the entirety of steam.
4.
You can try to use wireshark and the etc/host.deny file, but that requires quite some technical skill, time and access to a functioning steam account.
5.
install a custom root certificate and start doing deep package inspection.
6.
Modding and reverse engineering the games and steam client
For everything past option 2 I would appreciate it if you would be nice enough to publish the things you type for it under a gpl compatible license, so others can use it too, because there is surprisingly little material available on the topic.
If you're looking for a hoster for the material www.Codeberg.org does it for free as long the material is under an open source license license, you can also try to publish it on GNU Savanna, but that's harder and you can publish it on github, but that's owned by microsoft and tracks its users.
Last edited by LoudTechie on 28 June 2024 at 7:53 pm UTC
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No surprise there, third person games are made for the deck. Specially games like elden ring, darksouls, tomb raider and the one I’m playing atm, resident evil 4 :).
But what a great game elden ring is and the new dlc, to me elden ring was already a classic on day one, will probably age like fine wine 😘👌.
Last edited by Zelox on 29 June 2024 at 6:20 pm UTC
But what a great game elden ring is and the new dlc, to me elden ring was already a classic on day one, will probably age like fine wine 😘👌.
Last edited by Zelox on 29 June 2024 at 6:20 pm UTC
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