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Here's more of the latest Steam Deck Verified games including Sea of Thieves
15 July 2024 at 4:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

Been loving Zoria Age of Shattering. It's a super fun crpg that has some interesting outpost mechanics and tons of squad member options. It's a small passion project game made by 3 people so it's nowhere near as polished as the big heavy hitting aaa games, but I kind of like that about it. Highly recommend for fans of the genre.

Last Epoch adds a new evade ability, a new end-game system, more boss fights
12 July 2024 at 1:47 pm UTC

Last Epoch is amazing. I think it's probably the best there is in its genre right now. Nothing else comes even close. I was highly addicted to it last year after it hit 1.0 and got some patches. I got to end game and got a little bored, but maybe I should take another look now!

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today
5 July 2024 at 7:32 pm UTC Likes: 4

This is one of my favorite sites I visit daily, so thank you for all the wonderful times here and looking forward to 15 more years!

100 updates later, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is shaping up to be a fantastic squad-tactics RPG
1 July 2024 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 4

I only have the rare exception to my rule of never buying anything in EA / kickstarter / etc... and this developer is one of those exceptions. They are just a wonderful studio. I've had this game in my library for a while and I swear it gets updates pretty much just constantly. It's amazing how much work they're putting into this game.

Very much looking forward to release! I typically don't even get into this genre (xcom-likes) but for these devs I certainly will give it a try!

Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games
28 June 2024 at 3:49 am UTC

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.

Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games
28 June 2024 at 3:44 am UTC

Diablo 4
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Sci-fi racing platformer Distance gets a surprise update with Steam Deck improvements
27 June 2024 at 3:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

This seems like a great game for the Deck, I might give it a go.

COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch
26 June 2024 at 4:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

I think it looks great.

And I'm super excited to test it out on live usb when it's available. Always love trying out new DE!

I also love the System76 hardware, but unfortunately about 80% of what they sell is all intel/nvidia which I'm not interested in. They only have a single laptop and desktop (non threadripper) model that's AMD based. And the desktop model is the smallest one. I just generally prefer larger cases to get more open space for better airflow so the fans turn on less and when they do, it's low rpms. I once did a SFF build and HATED the end result because it sounded like an airplane engine.

PVKK from the Dome Keeper devs has you manually control a massive planetary defence cannon
21 June 2024 at 12:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

My friend and I had an absolute blast in Dome Keeper, so I will gladly follow anything this dev does. This seems wonderful!

Cosmic horror post-apocalyptic RPG Death Trash has a teaser for a new update
21 June 2024 at 12:51 pm UTC

Whoa, this is a blast from the past! I think I've had this on my wishlist for ... actually I can't even remember, 4 years? More? I used to have this high on my anticipation radar, since the demo was great and the entire setting was just fantastic, but I guess it somehow got stuck in dev hell if it's still EA after all this time.

I will still keep it on my wishlist, and I hope they can get closer to a release.