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I've been dabbling with Etrian Odyssey 3 on the Steam Deck and it's a really good wind down game surprisingly. Mapping dungeons is a little cumbersome with controller inputs, but it's a chill time. Performs at 60 FPS, has a fun party/class system, and a relaxing Sega Genesis style soundtrack.
I've been so excited to check out Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and it is so cool so far.
It plays at a buttery 60 FPS on the Steam Deck, is filled to the brim with bops, and improves on a lot of minor nitpicks I had with Jet Set Radio gameplay-wise. Looking forward to streaming this soon™️
Steam Deck Testing: Persona 3 Reload
Persona 3 Reload is a curious case on the Steam Deck. On one hand, the game is a great retool of the original Persona 3 experience, marrying the incredibly dark story and compelling characters of the original game with style and Quality of Life updates from the most recent game in the series, Persona 5 Royal.
On the other hand, while I greatly enjoyed what I had played of my first couple hours of P3R, the performance of the game can be seemingly all over the place. While it can stick to 60FPS in less crowded areas, cutscenes, and in combat —which is arguably the most important area to perform well in for an RPG— the game can dip to the 40s in areas with lots of activity and into the 20s-30s while exploring the main dungeon of the game, Tartarus.
While I think the current state of the game is still good despite these performance hurdles, an update down the road that irons out these performance hitches would make this an essential RPG for the Steam Deck.
Settings:
Unsurprising but Sonic Mania runs fantastic on the Steam Deck. The game scales nicely to the Steam Deck's 1280 x 800 screen too.
Steam Deck Testing: Pac-Man World Re-Pac
This game feels really good to play and is just a jolly time. The game runs flawlessly at 60 FPS and looks crisp on the Steam Deck with the default settings!
Settings Used:
No special configuration required!
Steam Deck Testing: Solar Ash
Mysterious, kinetic, and otherworldly is how I would describe Solar Ash after dabbling with it on the Steam Deck. The gameplay is sort of like Jet Set Radio meets Shadow of the Colossus in the best way possible.
On the performance side of things, it did take some tweaking settings to get it to a happy medium between FPS and visual fidelity. I ended up settling for a 720P resolution with all settings set to low, FSR enabled, and capping the frame rate to 45 FPS. This netted me a mostly smooth 45 FPS with dips whenever the action or effects got really intense. Still really fun and playable, but may not be tolerable to some.
Yakuza Ishin runs great on the Steam Deck!
Using the in-game option for FSR and having most settings at High, I was able to net a fairly consistent 60 FPS during gameplay and during in-engine cutscenes. Pre-rendered cutscenes are capped to 30 FPS which is fine honestly.
Dabbled with the System Shock remake on my Steam Deck and it's neat! After setting it to 1024 x 760, setting graphics settings to Low, and enabling FSR , it plays close to 60 FPS and the game looks decent.
It can be slightly glitchy in menus at times but I'm very much considering streaming this at some point.
