Hey everyone!
So I recently bought the Steam deck, and love every second of it. It allows me to play games that I normally never play on PC. Like some indies.
But I have a question. I want a game where I can just braindead level. Bit like Runescape back in the day. Is there some game like that for the Deck?
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Vampire Survivors seems to fit the bill: no story, a bit of tactics, you level up to get new items, and enjoy killing hordes of enemies at once. After every run you can unlock power-ups for the next run… It’s one of my most played games in the last few months. It’s one of the classic “just one more run” type of games
Great game unfortunately it’s finishable in about 40-50h. And there isn’t much to do after that. You can overnight farm gold but it doesn’t really get you anything
I was so addicted to this game it was crazy. Finally able to pull myself away now . It’s also a fun game to just pick up and have a quick session commuting.
Warframe is pretty grindy and is free to play.
Second this, though it can be a bit rough for new players to get the hang of all the many systems they use. Once you figure out how to build around specific frames though, it’s totally brain dead slaughterfest for the most part
Total braindead slaughter, until you start New War. Then it’s souls-like gameplay that you can’t back out of. The only way I can play again is if I get someone to play on my account and beat those bosses for me.
It’s souls lite for like 30min. I wish I could go redo just the teshin mission. But honestly it’s 1 not that hard 2 not that long.
…now I don’t want to get back to Warframe.
Why does everything have to be souls-like these days?
It’s only souls-like for the duration of the quest - but you’re locked into the quest and have to complete it before you can use your frames again.
Ah I see. I think I can live with that.
Grim dawn
Serious question: I have hundreds of hours in GD, but never installed it on my deck because I never imagined playing it with a controller. Does it work well?
EDIT: Thanks everyone! Looks like I will give GD on deck a try soon.
It works great, but needs a bit of tweaking. Targeting distant foes and picking up specific loot from a pile of items can be tricky sometimes, but nothing remotely game breaking.
I personally changed the touch pad tu function as a mouse for inventory management.
For comparison, I have a few hundred hours in Diablo 3 (PS4 version) which have a great controller scheme and for me it’s the best controller experience of an arpg on the market so far. GD its not far behind, but you might need to personalize it.
The only issue I have with GD and a controller is difficulty targeting specific foes and precuse use of movement abilities. Nothing gamebreaking, just annoying.
It works surprisingly well! I beat the game with my second character on the Deck exclusively.
I have bought GD specifically because someone said it was better on controller than PoE and I kinda wanted to play on the couch when I was sick a while ago.
At least for a couple of hours as a necromancer it worked pretty well.
For now I went back to PoE with K&M, but I don’t rule out, that I might give GD another shot.
And if I do, I will try again with the controller.
Or Path Of Exile. Virtually interchangable.
Do you enjoy PoE with a controller?
I didn’t like it when I triedit once, but I might give it another chance.
I have a few thousand hours in PoE, the last few hundred have been on the Steam Deck.
Honestly, it’s pretty great. Some builds might not work as well though.
Trading is pretty rough though, which is a pretty important part of endgame PoE.
Thanks for mentioning Grim Dawn. Now I have the mightiest urge to play that again :T
Best ARPG.
Loop Hero
Hades
Persona 4 or 5
You absolutely can’t play Hades at a braindead level
You’ll get there honestly. It took me around 16-20 tries to get my first clear but now I cant even imagine not clearing a no heat run.
Halls of Torment. Cookie Clicker. Vampire Survivors.
Dorfromantik
The Disgaea games are a great grind, tons of Post Story content to delve into and days of pure grinding.
Tactical RPG is the genre, fyi.
Stardew Valley lol
It’s very treadmill, but can be fun.
Siralim Ultimate maybe? The Steam description: “Siralim Ultimate is a monster catching, dungeon crawling RPG with a ridiculous amount of depth. Summon over 1200 different creatures and travel through randomly generated dungeons to acquire resources, new creatures, and loot.”
At some points, you need to rethink your setup and incorporate the new stuff you’ve found along the way to be able to mindlessly grind on but I’ve played for 160 hours so far and having a blast trying different strategies. Evoker is my favorite class so far - casting so many spells before the battle even begins that the enemy never gets their turn.
I played Siralim Ultimate on my deck while my newborn was sleeping on my lap pillow. It is absolutely great for just mindless numbers go up gameplay. It’s also fantastic if you want to spend hours theorycrafting and tinkering to get the perfect team for you.
Animator for lyfe. My Animatus goes first, punches one thing, and corpse explosions start rolling.
Diablo IV. World of Warcraft. Final Fantasy XIV.
Second Disgaea aka grind: the game.
Elite: Dangerous is 100% grind 100% of the time. If you legitimately enjoy mindless grind loops that’s probably the game for you. I spent more time than I’m comfortable admitting just shuttling goods and …people back and forth between two stations. It runs really well on the deck.
How does it play on deck? I really like the idea of picking it up again what’s the battery life like?
I have thousands of hours in the game but not on the deck. I stopped playing when they dropped console support.
That said, I have single digit hours on the deck. The controls were basically the same as I was used to on the Xbox, so it felt like a native game. The performance was pretty decent but I didn’t try any Odyssey content. Can’t answer your question on battery life, sorry. I do remember when the deck launched people on the E:D subreddit were very pleased with performance and battery life, for whatever that’s worth. Honestly Frontier really should embrace the deck, their game is practically built for it.
The launcher is a huge pain in the ass but if you can get past that at least once you don’t have to deal with it again.
Why not Runescape/Old School Runescape? I dont have a Deck but I know a bunch of people who play OSRS on one
Its more like, I have played OSRS for soooo long now. Really want to try something new.
Ah ok, when you said “back in the day” it made me think that youd taken one of those “prolonged breaks”
Melvor Idle is an idle game inspired by OSRS (Now published by Jagex) if you’re looking for something directly inspired by RuneScape.
If you like RuneScape from back in the day we have OldSchool RuneScape based on the game from 2007 and still being updated weekly. Polls control most updates so players get to choose and have feedback with the development of the game. 2 weeks ago they just released Desert Treasure 2, one of the biggest quest updates ever.
I read the title wrong, and now I’m picturing an angle grinder simulator that uses the motion controls on the deck.
