I got Terraria for 5 bucks, I didn’t think I’d like it so much.

Archolos plays great, though I had to create my own control mappings. Still can’t figure out why the hardware accelerated cursor pops out when I use the trackpad as a mouse though, but not much of an issue, since I rarely have to touch it.

Also some Hades 2 and a fan mod on FTL, called Multiverse

STALKER 2 buy on GOG through Amazon Luna. And Diablo 2 Resurrected

I finally finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales and just started Spider-Man 2. Man, that game runs like ass on the Deck while I have to make it look worse than the previous two.

And it actually feels like what I’m experiencing are bugs and not necessarily the Steam Deck’s fault. Stuff like models popping in without animations. I remember seeing pictures of that when it was new. Strange that they didn’t manage to fix it. Couldn’t they just have stayed on the old engine? It worked perfectly fine!

Cairn, it’s a really good game about climbing a mountain

Though tbh, it’s at some points got unfair level design, but at least it’s solved by them having an “Assist Mode” that can be turned on in settings

Orginal Oblivion with mods. I have never played it. I just got the game installed yesterday, and set up in Vortex. Now I have to go grab all the mods, which is very manual. Vortex mod installation links on the Nexus don’t work on the deck. There might be a way to fix that because the mod suggestion list I’m looking at said there’s a way to make links work with Mod Manager 2 on the Deck.

I’m following a curated list of mods that will be a “vanilla+” experience. Not too crazy or anything. It’s called “A Pocket Full of Cheese Wheels” on the Nexus. It comes with a one-click installer shell script that installs Mod Manager 2 and a bunch of other stuff on the Deck but I’m just going to do it manually. The script is old and no longer maintained.

I modded Fallout 3 with Vortex on my Deck, and it was pretty easy when the game is installed on the SD card. I feel like that was key, but I don’t remember exactly why. You also have to symlink the “My Games” folder from the Fallout 3 (or Oblivion) Proton prefix into the Vortex Proton Prefix. That’s so Vortex can manage the INI files and such. Plus you set the SD card as the D: drive in the Vortex Proton prefix so it can see the game’s folder, too. In fact, I think that’s was done automatically done by Steam. Maybe that was why I installed the game on the SD card. But it’s not like you couldn’t make your own drive mapping. It’s a simple symlink named like “d:” or “e:” in the “dos_devices” folder. I don’t see why that couldn’t point to the NVMe drive, but I feel like people online said that wouldn’t work. Vortex is also installed on the SD card.

Maybe some day I’ll document all of this.

The Binding of Isaac Rebirth

Just finished control, starting Firewatch next. Control played very well, at some point it started crashing within a few minutes of playing, I made whatever change was on protondb and it worked fine after that.

Edit: it was -dx11

• Sektori (steam)
• Tomb Raider GOTY (GOG)
• Stardew Valley (GOG)
• F-Zero GX on the Dolphin emulator

I’ve discovered that I’m tired and bored of the new AAA titles, so I’ve been playing the old stuff more and more.

Getting into Esoteric Ebb. Enjoying it so far, though I do dislike some aspects of it (the combat fucking sucks and the D&D racism is tiring).

Final Fantasy 7 (the original). With so many singing it’s praises, I figured I should try and finish it once. I just got out of the desert prison. I have to say, so far I don’t really get the hype.