My Steam library basically only consists of Witcher 3 and Spiritfarer. I also was gifted a Humble Bundle game for Batman Arkham Knight.

I’m debating on getting Elden Ring and Cyberpunk (both without DLC).

Marvel’s Spider-Man and FF7 Interograde also look like a good value right now for 40 bucks total.

Edit, ended up doing the following:

Becoming a Steam Family member with my dad and buying the following.

  • FFVII Retrograde
  • Mass Effect Legendary
  • Divinity 1 and 2
  • Caveblazers
  • Portal 2
  • Hollow Knight

I also set up emudeck and transferred all my GBA, GBC, and GCN games that I have ROMS for.

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    2·
    4 days ago

    UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves is about 14 bucks and has around 60 hours of some of the best third person gaming I’ve played. Initially I thought it was just a Tomb Raider clone, but both the game mechanics and story are very polished.

    Plus it played buttery smooth on my system, though it depends on your settings: https://www.protondb.com/app/1659420?device=steamDeck

    The downside is that it eventually ends.

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Might be worth a pickup at some point — I had a PS3 back in the day and bought these for full price and played the hell out of them all.

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I really wanted to like Hi-Fi Rush. I had it on gamepass for a few months before my subscription ended but I’m just so bad at rhythm games haha

  • ChetManly@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Vampire survivors is a couple bucks and worth every penny. I got slay the spire balatro bundle for 13 bucks and would also recommend.

  • Gerard's Guitar @retrolemmy.com
    6·
    6 days ago

    I would probably get:

    • Megabonk (£6.37/$8.61)
    • Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition (£5.27/$7.12)
    • A Game About Digging A Hole (£3.17/$4.28)
    • Power Wash Simulator 2 (£16.99/$22.96) or Katamari Damacy REROLL (£15.99/$21.61)
  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    Tomb Raider Survival Trilogy for $7.19

    Shadow of Mordor/War for $6.99

    Prodigal for $1.49 - Zelda plus date sim

    Toem for $3.99 - gotta photograph em all

    Crosscode for $5.99 - SPMMOOTY

    Saint’s Row 4 $2.99

    Vampire Survivors for $3.74 - everybody is legally required to have a copy

    20 Small Mazes for $0 Doronko Wanko $0

    My main recommendation is “don’t put all of your money into a bunch of PS5 AAA games”. PS5-ish games fit “if we turn all of the settings down, and render in 1/4 rez, and then AI upscale, and still your battery only lasts an hour”. It often isn’t a great experience here.

    A strength of the Deck is in delivering an endless back catalog of PS4 and prior styles of games. Another is in bringing forward a ton of indie games that can’t win at “marketing”, can’t afford to develop PS5-level visuals, so they fight like hell on “mixing up new and interesting gameplay” and “price”.

  • a_person@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Doom (2016) or Doom  Eternal. Both fantastic games, run on anything and I saw Doom Eternal on sale foe 10%.

  • kynzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    was gonna recommend considering piracy, but since its against the rules I will respect that and recommend some of my favorite games i play on the SD and my PC instead:

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Re: flying the Jolly Roger

      I probably will for more expensive games I own on other platforms, such as Jedi Survivor and Expedition 33.

      My main issue is that I actually don’t have a ton of data storage since I opted for the very 256 LCD model and need to buy a larger SD card or do some physical tinkering to replace the SSD.

      • kynzo@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        From what I’ve seen replacing the SSD really ain’t that hard. But the SD card speeds are not that bad for many lighter games.

    • vvvvv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      was gonna recommend considering piracy,

      Yeah, my first thought was modchip!

      • kynzo@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        I don’t think you know much about the steam deck haha

        It is an actual computer with Linux on it, you can even install windows if you’re dumb enough to do that. You do not need a modchip to pirate or mod games on it. You do it like you would on any other Linux pc with wine.

  • darko8472@feddit.uk
    2·
    6 days ago

    If you’re not one of these people who has to have everything running at 60fps to enjoy it, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is only £26.99 ($29.99) at the moment, and is a great game for hours of play, albeit you have to turn the gfx down.

    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 days ago

      I’ll second this. Great game. Definitely more than playable on SD.

      Forbidden West struggles a bit more, definitely on the edge of playable, but I still enjoy it 🤷‍♂️ When I’m home I’ll usually stream from my PC though, looks better. You really sacrifice a lot for Forbidden West on SD.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    3·
    6 days ago

    I would look at indie games like nobody saves the world and look for all the emulators and roms I could get my filthy mitts on.

    If you don’t have it yet I would spend some of that money on a few months worth at least of mulvad VPN. It would… Open some doors.

  • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    If you’re on a budget, make sure to redeem the weekly free games from Epic and Amazon if you have Prime. You can play them all on your deck via Heroic Games Launcher.

  • BoosBeau@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    My favorites on the Steam Deck so far are Marvel Cosmic Invasion (arcade style Beat 'em Up) and Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.

  • Freakazoid@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 days ago

    Biy Sleeping Dogs, it plays great on the steam deck and its now 85% down to 3 euros.

    Great story, graphics still hold up.

    Furthermore consider Distance (Race like game), the precinct, hot brass, coromon.