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Comment by ghostbrainalpha | Hacker News Reader

What are the main games taking hours on the Steam Deck?

I want one, but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around what I would actually do.

I'm going to out my HN account to my friends if they're on here, but I've been playing Noita, Vault of the Void, Vampire Survivors, Heroes of Might and Magic, Bastion, Boneraiser Minions, Distance, Pawnbarian.

Huge range of games with a wide variety of inputs. I don't want to admit to you what my weekly playtime average looks like since receiving the Deck, but it's high.

Anything that has natural stop-off points pretty much.

Vampire Survivors is my most highest played one based on hours though =) You can play it with the sound and most of your brain off, so you can still listen to what's going on in the TV show you're "watching".

GTA V runs perfectly on it, I played through Quantum Break. And as soon as I get Heroic Launcher (Epic + Gog games) working, I'll start with Witcher 3 and CP2077.

I've been appreciating it for games that don't have a natural stop-off point. Unlike on my computer, I'm perfectly content to pause the game, sleep the device, and then pick it back up again later. The ability to turn it off without losing your state is a given on devices like the Switch, but it feels like a really important accomplishment on a PC where I'm often hesitant to even sleep the machine while I have a game open.

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