Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the January 2024, sorted by playtime.
PalWorld being number 2 is pretty impressive considering it only came out on the 19th. I suppose the huge number of players would make up for the relatively limited time.
Wonder how long that is going to last. Remember when Hogwarts legacy used to be a top played game?
but, it’s still #8? not exactly fell off.
What I mean is no one talks about Hogwarts Legacy anymore. People talk about Assassin’s Creed, God of War, old Mario Games, Even older Harry Potter games but Hogwarts legacy I don’t see popping up on conversation anymore
Thats an interesting observation. I love the game and plan on starting a new playtrough this summer but you made me wonder and i cant really pinpoint annything I would talk about.
Maybe the different is that the game is an addition to a fandom rather then being the fandom. There plenty stuff to talk wizarding world. The game is more about experiencing and immersing the total rather then zooming in on its individual components.
In comparison though, it was basically one and done. Assassin’s Creed is a fairly long running franchise, God of War and Mario too technically, paired with bits of nostalgia. Palworld can always improve and still get attention past the first month.
Yeah, but Hogwarts legacy was kind of bad gameplay and story wise, wasn’t it?
Kinda. Honestly I never got too deeply invested into Hogwarts Legacy but I found that games that surge THIS hard in popularity tend to be forgotten fast. Esp when their main source of attention is controversy
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Combat was extremely repetitive and very easy even at the hardest difficulty.
Damn. I must play Brotato more. Not showing on the list
Honestly, it was like my third most played game of 2023
I’ve been playing Soulstone Survivors again, recently. They’ve added a lot of great stuff with updates since I last played. Lots of “Bullet Heaven” (?) games beyond Vampire Survivors to enjoy!
(Is that what we’re calling this genre, btw? It doesn’t make much sense, imho, so I hope we have a better name.)
And there is me who is playing Just Cause 2…
I’m enjoying JC4.
I see Diablo 4 is still on the list. I haven’t played since season 1. I bought it from blizzard but I’m on Linux now so I was thinking about getting it on steam. Is there any way to get around buying it again in the steam store? I imagine I’d still have to connect my old account.
Why do you need to rebuy it from steam? They don’t have a Linux version?
You can install the battle net launcher on the steam deck and play. I’ll see if I can find the installation instructions and edit my post.
Edit: https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck
Install lutris then battle.net… I play wow, Diablo and Warcraft 3 on kubuntu…
And have battle.net on my stream deck (installed via non-steam game) wow installed and docked while playing away from home using kbm
Your welcome ;)
How does Hogwarts Legacy run on the Steam Deck? With a GTX 2060 and FX-8350 I am unable to get good frame rates, even on the lowest settings
You’re being bottlenecked by that CPU big time.
That FX-8350 is the problem.
The second half of this article is specifically about the FX-8350 and Hogwarts Legacy performance in case you’re interested
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/k6-fx-8350-revisited-2023-compared-to-modern-ryzens-games
It helps that it runs in 720p on the Deck, but it was still bad enough for me to refund it. Looks super blurry and low frame rate.
How are y’all getting BG3 to be tolerable on the deck? I’ve tried a few suggested settings but it always feels really bad :(
You honestly just have to accept 30fps.
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But what about the February, or the March?
CRYSTAL BALL MISSING
It seems like Monster Hunter has slowly been rising up these lists!
Interesting that it’s world, and not rise. I know World is more popular on PC, but Rise is nice for the Deck.
My money is on more Steam Decks being sold in Japan, thus driving MH up in those lists.
Good call, I bet that’s likely it!
I don’t know, if I had to guess it’s probably the return to world campaign.
With the announcement of the next monster hunter game, which is being made by the same team as world (so likely it’s going to be very similar to world) Capcom started advertising world again and that shot it up to daily peaks of ~160K concurrent players for a while.
Sorry guys that a Binding of Isaac placement is definitely me. I decided to finally beat all the bosses with every character and probably spent the whole month playing that game to do so.
Stardew Valley is creeping up on being my most played Steam game of all time. Entirely on Deck. I am starting to loathe it a bit now though. I’m very late game, and it’s super grindy. It’s just so chill though, I have trouble putting it down. I love me some brain rattling difficult Souls games, but Stardew Valley just lets me completely zone out. I also get something close to seven hours of battery with it unlike anything demanding that kills it in 2 or 3.
I’m amazed at the strong showing for older games like Stardew (which has an update coming soon) and Isaac. I mean, they’re timeless games, just fun to see people still really into them!
I’ve been playing the first Like a Dragon, which is as much melodramatic and zany fun as any of the Yakuza games. I was very hesitant about the turn-based battle system, but it works really well and still feels like Yakuza.
Also been working on a second run of Grime, the metroidvania, which also had a big final update this week. It’s very fun and ranks high among MVs for me, but it’s also pretty hard and requires a nearly Seikiro-like mastery of defense timings.
I also fixed a weird SteamDeck issue this week. Maybe others will run into it. My deck started going super slow, and having trouble booting. I even tried a factory reset to no avail and was getting ready to warranty it, when I thought to try one last trick.
Apparently going into the system setup menu (hold Volume + while turning it on) and turning on long term battery storage mode, then turning it off again (by booting up with the power cord in) somehow fixes this issue. So i did that, and it worked!
I’m mystified as to what random setting got flipped that this corrects, but I’m happy it worked.
I had the same issue ages ago with the same fix. I’m curious what setting is getting stuck and why it hasn’t been addressed in over a year.
Here’s my list:
- The curse of monkey island
- Super meat boy
- VVVVVV
- You have to win the game
- Firewatch
Firewatch on your list was awesome. Really enjoyed it.
Never heard of the second last game.
V6 and Super meat boy are such a legendary games. Enjoy! For other platformers I’d suggest Owlboy, DuckTales, Hollow Knight, Celeste and Rogue legacies when you have time or haven’t played them yet.
VVVVVV, to this day, gives me joy.
I’ve been hearing about The Curse of Monkey Island. What’s it like?
A really good remaster. Let’s you toggle between that and the original view seamlessly. The game itself is a funny point and click puzzle game with a decent story
I’ve beaten every Monkey Island game except for Curse. Something about the art style is really off-putting for me, so I could never get into it. I might have to give it another shot, especially since I just finished Return to Monkey Island a couple weeks ago and have an itching for more.
I’m glad to see Dave the Diver up there. It’s been my comfort food for a few weeks now, and it’s easy to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. Perfect for the Deck imo.
It really is a fantastic game. It’s simple while still being complex. It has a great progression and fun gameplay loop. None of my friends have heard of it, outside of me saying how great it is. Makes me happy to see it’s doing well.
Palworld is so fucking addictive. Especially when you have a dedicated server with several friends in a guild all working together to hatch Uber monsters. Fun as fuck.
