I've setup up emulation and have had a blast playing Everybody's Golf 6 for the PS3. It is such a chill game. Golf games are really underrated and everybody's golf does a great job of cartoony arcade game mixed with just enough real golf to make it interesting. Perfect on the Deck.
Picked up Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor a few days ago and I'm now 20 hours in, really enjoying it. It's a very thematic translation of the original DRG into a survivor game. The terrain and mining are a great addition to the survivor formula, it's not only for resource collection but it also gives a new twist to the positioning puzzle. The game seems very well suited for more content so I hope that it will keep coming.
I just found Super Woden GT 2 an amazing Retro-Indy-Racer.
Fallout 4 with the hype around the show and the sale, I finally picked it up. The survival mode is very fun.
Also with the shutdown of the eShop, I finally hacked my WiiU and extracted images of my games. And with that I started a new play through of Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Finally managed to get my hands on a Deck this last week. Been having a blast with both Hades 2 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
I was a bit worried with Pathfinder since it's not verified, but I figured the controller scheme would be functional since they have a console version. So far I've been quite impressed with how smoothly it controls.
After watching Nerd Cubed play Coin Pusher Casino, I also got hooked. Bit of a guilty pleasure, that.
But, three things to recommend it, though:
Realistic physics throughout make it quite a technically advanced game despite it probably all it took was a toggle in Unity.
There's a native Linux port.
Other than the initial outlay for the game the only resource you'll expend is your precious time alive. So, there's no freemium model where you pay to advance. And no payment for additional unlockable content.
You play tables to get credits, to get perks that make it more pleasurable (not to mention possible) to play tables, to ... The very essence of an RPG grind. And a bit of a skinner box.
I am honestly incredibly impressed with the show so far. My big question was how the power armor/steel brotherhood were going to be handled because there is a similar risk to warhammer 40k with the space marines or stormtroopers in star wars were the baddy fascist guys are the cool looking ones that look righteous so people begin to casually associate with that imagery.... which I don't think is bad in a vacuum I just think there is a responsibility in 2024 for artists to not make the system of fascism and conservative violent extremism look sexy lol.
There was a big risk of a bunch of business execs looking at the fallout pilot and saying "that t-60 power suit looks cool, make those guys the main characters/good guys" and the fallout writers would be left saying "but... om... I know they look cool but..." and the business executives would just start impatiently tapping their pencil while they wait for everyone to shut up hell up so they can go back to their yacht.
But nah, it is good and it is subversive so far in exactly the ways it should be. I am not a huge fallout video game fan (though I acknowledge the fallout series is undeniably a massive and well loved series in gaming, and for good reason) but I imagine fallout video game fans must be loosing their fucking minds right now with how much better the show is than it had any right to be in the way only someone who has spent decades as a fan of a game series (or comic book, or book, or whatever equivalent) could possibly appreciate.
Pseudoregalia. It's a 3D platformer/Metroidvania that mimics PSX/N64 graphics. I'm only a couple hours in, but so far it's fun. The controls are buttery smooth.
I've had a bit more free time these days and really wanted to play sea of thieves but they broke the game for steam deck the day after I bought it. I've been salty over it ever since (around a week now)