I haven’t had a console since ps3. I like story driven games. I do enjoy CK, AoE, Civ.

I liked Sicko elesium, any othercommie games to enjoy? What about for the people?

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Other Survivors-likes I’ve enjoyed:

      Nova Drift - more arcade style Asteroids type game with hundreds of different builds
      Boneraiser Minions - vampire survivors but it’s just minions and there are boner puns
      20 Minutes Till Dawn - very close in style and gameplay to vampire survivors, but IMO the builds and the feel of the game is superior

  • BRINGit34@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Outer wilds is probably one of the best single player games to come out in a long while. I’d rank it up there with disco elysium

    • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      These two games hit my emotions like no other, but in such different ways.

      Play Outer Wilds and don’t read any spoilers. It’s a lovely exploration/puzzle game where you are an adorable little nonbinary alien archaeologist exploring the solar system. The rest you should figure out yourself.

      ::)

    • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Dammit why did I read this thread I’m not even halfway done with the last of us but disco Elysium is the best game ever so now I gotta buy outer wilds… thanks for the recommendation

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    commie game

    Have you played Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic? One of the most Marxist games ever made along with Vicky 3. It’s pretty intimidating but it has a lot of difficulty features so you can start with just the basics and ramp up at your own pace.

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Games I’ve enjoyed on steamdeck:

    • Snowrunner - I’m never not shilling for snowrunner. It’s so good.
    • dark souls / Elden ring
    • Dredge
    • fallout new vegas
    • the outer wilds
    • dusk
    • civ 6
    • hades

    I also enjoyed Goroga it’s like a 40minute game but really good.

  • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s not a strategy game and it’s not communist either, but if you like story then you gotta play Ghost Trick! It was originally released on DS but it got a remake for PC/xbox/switch/ps4 a while back that’s good too.

    It’s a puzzle game where you play as a recently-departed spirit that’s trying to solve their own murder. You accomplish this by possessing and manipulating nearby objects to change the course of events leading up to your death. Every level is like a Rube Goldberg machine and everything is animated beautifully. It has the most gripping plot I’ve ever seen in a video game and I binged the entire thing from beginning to end when I first played it. It’s the game version of a page-turner. It’s an A-presser.

  • RION [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    West of Loathing and Shadows Over Loathing are quirky adventure games with surprisingly good writing that play well on deck.

    Supergiant games: Bastion, Transistor, and Hades. All have good stories and play well. I’d bet Pyre too but I haven’t played it.

    Other games I think are good on deck but might not fit your criteria (mostly roguelikes of some flavor):

    • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
    • Cult of the Lamb
    • Rogue Legacy
    • Going Under
    • Dark Souls I, II, and III
  • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    The most impressive story-focused games I got on Steam Deck are

    • Wolfenstein 2: New Order

    Looks amazing on Steam Deck and runs really well, more story focused FPS though it has a mixed tone, it’s $5 for a grey-market steam key from G2A. It’s also available through a DODI repack on 1337x.to or Fitgirl

    CW: Very dark and very violent despite its mixed tone, does not sanitize Nazi violence against queers and other enemies of fascists, has story sequences from POV of child abuse and forced animal abuse

    • Red Dead Redemption 2

    One of the best looking games ever and runs well on Steam Deck. Haven’t gotten too far into the story yet but it’s really good.

    • Atom RPG

    Steam Deck verified, haven’t tried it yet because I want a full week to get really immersed. It’s a classic Fallout style game set in the Soviet Union and it’s written by communists

    • Death Stranding

    You play as Norman Reedus doing sci-fi mutual aid to rebuild America through infrastructure by Hideo Kojima

    • Metro Exodus

    Soviet FPS Fallout with survival horror elements, semi-open zones, story-driven, for train lovers and people that love the post-apocalyptic Soviet setting. You are incentivized to avoid combat when possible. Characters made positive comments about Mao and you are more or less part of a small commune, beautiful communist imagery and natural setting. (Doesn’t support Steam Cloud Saves, requires manual backup)

    • Fallout New Vegas

    It’s Fallout New Vegas

    • Alan Wake

    Third person horror shooter inspired by classics like Twin Peaks and The Shining, made by Remedy, kind of reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other 90s cheese

    • Aperture Desk Job

    This is the pack-in game for Steam Deck by Valve, but does not come pre-installed, teaches you about Steam Deck controls

    • Resident Evil 2 / 3 / Village

    The newer Resident Evil games run really well on Steam Deck and have more emphasis on their story and cutscenes

    • Cyberpunk 2077

    Takes some level of tinkering, low-medium settings with XESS enabled in the game settings to good 40fps performance but looks really impressive on Steam Deck

    The themes are a miss but the cinematography and acting in this game is phenomenal

    • Ori and the Will of the Wisps

    Side scrolling animated adventure, uses some gorgeous and innovative 2d animation systems, lots of eye candy I think it’s like a Metroidvania somewhat

    • Prey

    First person sci-fi immersive sim like classic Deus Ex, haven’t tried it but it’s a niche classic

    • Fallout 1 / 2

    Classic Fallout is available and playable, may take some tinkering with setting and controller settings

    • LA Noire

    You play a 1930s New York Detective solving murders, by Rockstar Games

    • Prince of Persia original trilogy

    It’s kind of like Zelda and the only really good games Ubisoft ever made, first game is like a fairy tale, later ones become more edgy

    Fitgirl repacks on https://fitgirl-repacks.site/

    DODI repacks on https://1337x.to/

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    If you’ve never played Celeste, check it out. It’s a challenging platformer with a very touching story, cute artwork, and a great soundtrack. Also has a vibrant modding community with thousands of third-party levels, including hundreds gathered together into collabs with consistent difficulty progressions and hours of original soundtrack. Greatest platformer of all time. You should be able to run the mods on a Steam Deck.

    Also, look into setting up RetroArch on there (not the version distributed on Steam though - it lacks the function to download emulator ‘cores’ which you will need to play various games).

    • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      RetroArch

      You can actually re-enable this in the Steam version by changing a cfg value, that said if you’re already on Linux there’s no reason to use the Steam version when your distro’s app store almost certainly has it already.

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ah that’s good to know. I assumed they had this feature disabled at compile-time (there is also a compile-time flag). My only experience with the Steam version was one time on my friend’s Windows computer before installing a copy straight from the RetroArch website.

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    FTL faster than light is one of the sites favorite games

    The same people that made it made into the breach which is a fun turn based strategy game

    There are some fun classics like Shovel Knight and Hollow knight which are fun

    Also Katana Zero is really good

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Last of us part one is blowing me away. Also ghost of Tsushima, cyberpunk, heck even old school far cry games, crysis 2 cheap as hell and extremely fun. Of course the best game of all time is disco Elysium