25 Best Steam Deck Games YOU Should Play (2024 Edition) - Bilingual Subtitles
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The Switch might have had a long run at the top as the handheld hybrid of choice,
but Valve have made a great case for themselves with the Steam Deck.
Being able to play the hundreds if not thousands of Steam titles you already own while on the go is quite the liberating feeling,
so it's no surprise then that the Steam Deck has been considered by me.
it's weight in gold.
there are thousands of titles that are already available for the Steam Deck that you can enjoy right now.
We've narrowed that massive library down even further so you know which titles to play once you get your grubby mitts on Valve's new books of wonders.
Here are the best Steam Deck games you should check out on your portable powerhouse in between halfs of that stuff.
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25.
Stardew Valley Yes, this is number 25 and yes, it's only because everyone and Bill Ody knows that Stardew Valley actually rules.
It's sold 30 million copies.
What are you going to do?
Farm me?
Don't do that.
The best farming sim out there.
Stardew Valley feels like it's right at home on the Steam Deck as the portability of Valve's console allows you to dip in and out.
It's nice to have the freedom to spend half an hour working on your farm in between other tasks,
but if you want to just full send on Stardew Valley for hours at a time,
toiling away in the dungeons and caves, the Steam Deck allows you to do that too.
new citizen in town who inherited their grandfather's farm,
you'll start out with a few hand-me-down tools, loose change, and a can-do attitude.
With a little bit of elbow grease along with the support of the people in town,
you'll help turn the farm into a productive beacon of the entire town.
And even revive the old way of doing things now that the Jojo Corporation rolled into town.
Or you could just spend all your coins with Joja for the easy shortcut.
There are no heroes when it comes to parsnips, remember that?
Remember that in games and in life.
24.
Streets Rage 4 The beat-a-muck genre is about as timeless as gaming genres.
get.
No matter how many years pass there will always be a desire to batter goons while a massive arrow on the side of the screen tells you that you can go and then batter up more goons.
There are plenty of enjoyable beat-ups available on the Steam Deck already,
such as Fighting Rage, TMNT, Shredder's Revenge or The Takeover, but the best the genre has to offer is untountedly.
Streets of Rage 4.
A sequel to Sega's incredible beat-em-up series Streets of Rage 4 brings back iconic characters like Axel,
Blaze and Adam, along newcomers Floyd and Cherry, to bring the fight to the streets of Wood Oak City.
With a new crime family in town and plenty of skills in need of a good crackin,
Streets of Rage 4 smartly blends old school fundamentals with modern trappings to create a satisfying blend,
and one of the best steamedet games you can buy for anyone looking for a good old fashioned fistin.
No, it's fine, they'll understand, no, you don't need to change that, no, no, no, no.
What else does it mean?
What?
23.
Metal Gear Rising, Revengeance.
The game to dupe.
While their misstep of Babylon's fall might have put a significant dent into Platinum Games's reputation,
there's still no denying the fact that the Japanese developers are the undisputed masters of the character action genre.
Their library of top tier games is certainly extensive,
and even though there's quite a few titles available to play on Steam Deck, there's really only one proper choice, Metal Gear Rising, Revengeance.
A spin-off to Konami's iconic Metal Gear series,
Rising Revengeance, puts players in the cybernet the often maligned protagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2, who a badass cyborg in MGS4.
Revention sees Raiden travelling across the world, carving a bloody path through Mercs and goons with his electric katana in hand, and on his head.
Just make sure to keep those thumbsticks in good condition,
as the boss partels can be more intense than sitting through a four-hour Metal Gear Lore video while trying to not get a headache.
One of the huge benefits of the Steam Deck is that it can allow players to get in on the
ground floor of certain early access titles,
which they might not have been able to do previously if their PC or laptop wasn't up to snuff.
One such early access title that's worth checking out on Steam Deck is Project Zomboid,
and while it's been on early access for years and years by now, it's only recently begun to gain some proper momentum.
A survival game, Project Zomboid is about as upfront with its intention to kill you as it can possibly be.
It's not a question of if you're going to die, but when, as infection, disease and other humans can lead to your untimely demise.
Fortunately, Death is merely a new beginning, as you'll spawn as a new character armed
with slightly improved skills, and the knowledge you've gained from a previous run, and you can even go ahead.
character who's become Zombified.
That's pretty neat.
Me, personally, I would love to make content on Project Zomboid.
I 100 hours or so into it and I'd love to spend another 100,000 more.
Zomboid stream at 30k subs?
Who says no?
Everyone?
Fair enough.
21 –
Bolders Gate 3 It's a testament to the power and versatility of the Steam Deck that a game as massive as Bolders Gate 3 not only works on the handheld,
but manages to earn verified status at that.
If you want to experience one of the best RPGs ever made according to very horny people,
while on the go,
picking up Baldur's Gate 3 for your Steam Deck isn't a bad idea,
though the main reason why it's not further up this list is because it'll be a massive chunk of your deck storage.
I'd refer to gigabytes plus is a huge investment and it just doesn't look as great as it does on PS5,
or last for long in terms of battery.
base, and plug socket for it, Baldur's Gate 3 is a superlative CRPG experience with
a compelling cast of characters,
combat and classes that reward player experimentation with ingenuity, along with the ability to have a pet dog and owl bear.
There's even support for multiple players too, if you feel like taking the game online when you're at home.
might be a bit hard to get an adventuring party going on the train to work, after all.
20.
Papers, Please idea of a game about stamping passports at a border checkpoint crossing sounds like quite a dry pitch on the face of it, especially
given how many simulator games you can buy on Steam at any one time, but papers please is so much more than inspecting documents.
In fact,
there's a devil in disguise with papers please and I'll have you questioning your very own moral compass by the time the credits rule.
Kinda like you questioning your own self-worth after watching 12 hours of border patrol in a row, but with more terrorism.
In papers please,
the October Labour Lottery has been completed and your name has been chosen to begin work immediately at the Arstottskin
border checkpoint in the town of Grestin.
As an immigration inspector,
you'll be responsible for making sure everyone has the right documentation,
but with a steadily escalating political situation, more complex rules to follow and the lives of your own family.
papers please quickly becomes an exercise in high-stakes plate spinning.
There's no juggling, it just means to do loads of things at once, it's fun.
It's pretty fun.
Marvel's Midnight Suns Fireaxis games have already proven they're the rulers of the tactical strategy genre with their XCOM games.
However, if you're fancying what they
have to offer regarding something a bit more casual,
or you're looking for your next big superhero game fix,
the massively underrated Whippa, that is Marvel's Midnight Sons, is the perfect Steam Deck game for you.
A more supernatural focused game than some of the recent Marvel titles,
you control the Hunter, a creative character and child of Lilith, who's threatening to unleash demonic hordes upon the world as you do.
As the hunter,
you'll have to team up with the current Midnight Sun's team,
along with the Avengers and a few of our pals, in order to stop Hell and Hydra from taking over.
Also, you get to chat about your feelings with Blade between missions, which is really
nice, and if you can believe it, even makes more it's likeable.
Video games, what will they do next?
Number Persona 5 Royal.
Thinking, 120 hours into an RPG might sound like a daunting prospect in your adult years,
and it really is when I really doubt if I have 120 hours left to live after I stand up too fast.
But if it's worn that as excellent as Persona 5 Royal is, it's a time-sink that's worth investing in.
Persona 5 Royal sees players controlling Joker,
a mysterious teenager and Tokyo high school student who happens to find themselves with the ability to travel to an alternate dimension,
where the distorted desires of others have become manifest in the form of various palaces.
I when that happened when I was in high school, it was a real pain in the arse.
Together with his friends, Joker will travel to these palaces, steal their distorted desires and change the world itself as the phantom thieves.
If nothing else, it's definitely worth playing on your steam deck, as can break up Persona 5 Royal's got Gantuan runtime by playing the game.
You can make Joko read a book on a train while you're playing Persona 5 on a train.
Kinda like that source code movie with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Remember that?
No, not the girl on the train.
That Emily Blunt.
She's a girl.
Not speed.
That's Keanu on a bus.
Oh, we've lost this.
Moving on.
Let's move on.
Number Cult of the Lamb.
There's something to be said about the juxtaposition of cute animals doing absolutely depraved things.
Happy Tree Friends is arguably the most notable example,
but as far as video games go, massive monsters call to the lamb absolutely nails the aesthetic.
If you want to play as a really adorable lamb who just so happens to be a maniacal cult sacrifices their followers on the regular,
Cult of the Lamb is the game for you.
A roguelike with accessible gameplay and bundles of charm,
Cult of the Lamb sees players controlling a helpless little lamb who's rescued from certain death by a godlike stranger known only as
the one who waits.
Naturally, the only thing you can do to
Thank them for their generosity is to form a cult to praise their name eternally,
performing rituals and sacrificing followers while building facilities and gathering resources to keep the flock happy.
Personally, I wouldn't sacrifice a single one of this channel's subscribers.
Hit the subscribe button to climb the first step towards feathered enlightenment to day.
Journey.
Arguably, one of the big examples of short-length cosy games, Journey has become something of
legend in the decade since its original release, and even now, in 2024, it's still as relevant and moving as it ever was.
Thankfully, you can even experience the Tager.
working pleasures of Journey on the go thanks to the Steam Deck,
which means you can probably finish the whole game and the time you spend on the toilets.
Flushing away bad vibes and last week's chicken and mushroom pot noodle.
This is Video Games, a mysterious game that's open to both exploration and interpretation, Journey follows an unnamed stranger.
as they glide across the sands of a desert, which place host to a long-forgotten civilization buried deep underneath.
The real beauty of Journey comes from its non-standard multiplayer, where you can explore the levels with another player you've never met before.
Two lone wanderers finding secrets together before going their separate ways.
Journey is underway.
undeniably magical, and that's still true on the Steam Deck.
15.
Disco
One aspect of the Steam Deck is that it opens players up to the possibility
of experiencing massive tabletop-esque RPGs that were previously PC-only while on the go.
So, titles like Wilder Miff or Game Deck Spring to Mind there's fewer isometric RPGs more satisfying and game-changing than Disco Elysium.
Yeah, it might also be available on the Nintendo Switch, but at least it'll look and perform better on the Steam Deck.
One of the closest depictions of tabletop RPG gameplay in video games,
Disco Elysium sees players controlling and am,
am, am, am, am, am, am, this is really hard guys, an am, nesiac detective tasked with solving a complicated murder case.
I the case of saying that, let's get some likes guys, let's get some likes.
Instead of traditional combat, every action in the game is governed by a series of skill checks and dialogue.
trees.
Their own abilities are tied to the character's personality, and upgrading skills too much can even lead to some new quirks and traits.
One minute you're trying to find sad Homer Simpson's necktie, the next minute you're crying in the club.
Such is the brilliance of Disco Elysium.
14.
Fury Steam Deck is probably one of the most comfortable handheld consoles ever,
with grips, button and control stick placement being far superior to other platforms.
But doesn't mean you can't put them through their paces every now and then.
If you're looking for a challenging and fast pace game to play on your shiny new Steam Deck,
Fury is a brilliant pick,
even if just for that A boss rush game unlike many others Fury puts plays in the danger shoes of the stranger.
A mysterious figure who spent his existence being imprisoned in orbits of a daunting planet and he's kind of mad about that,
pretty understandably,
standing between the stranger and the freedom of the
are prison guards who are determined to put the stranger in the ground and they've got the means to do it as well.
With a sword and gun in hand, you'll have your skills tested and you'll love every second.
Every second that you aren't screaming into the void, that is.
13.
Neon Assassins aren't normally the type.
who'd get into heaven unless they're Ezio,
who is baby, but in the world of Neon White even the most hardcore killers can be given a second chance.
They just need to compete in a demon slaying death game, with the winner being granted eternal rest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
No pressure or anything, but it's only infinite damnation if you lose, but why Why do your fellow competitors seem so familiar?
A first person shooter,
you control the titular neon white as he massacres demons on mass throughout heaven,
but instead of using traditional weapons, neon white uses saw cards as weapons instead.
These weapons have a normal function such as pistol, rifle or grenade launcher, but they can also be discarded for a powerful movement ability.
Each becomes about using your abilities to gain the best time,
leading to an endlessly bingeable pursuit for glory where you would just be beaten by some dude in Asia anyway.
Number 12, Sayonara, Wild Hearts.
A game that feels like it was uniquely made for handheld devices.
Sayonara, Wild Hearts is a game you could conceivably start and finish in one commute, as the main game only takes
about an hour and a half to complete.
That might not sound like an appealing pitch for some people,
but what Sayonara Wild Hearts manages to cram into that 90 minute window is absolutely special,
and will stick with you long after the credits have rolled.
Not that walking postural jack-the-hotty,
but a young woman trapped in the throes of a heartbreak who stumbles into a trans-dimensional journey through their own relationship trauma,
all set to the beat of one of the best pop albums ever written.
The gameplay might not be substantial enough for everyone,
but when it comes to style, sound and overall aesthetic, So in our World Hearts simply cannot be beaten.
Number Dorfromantic.
The Steam Deck's portable nature lends itself quite well to puzzle games,
and there are a few puzzle games more enjoyable on the Steam Deck than Dorfromantic.
Perhaps that's because it doesn't quite feel like a puzzle game, but the compelling gameplay, and shell that wide wall.
certainly ensure you'll be coming back for more after each session.
I hate puzzle games because I've got quite a small brain for someone with such a large head,
but I just couldn't put this one down.
Door for a man tick is all about building your own little rural society using the stack of tiles you have to hand.
You gain more points and tiles by matching together.
features of the same type, such as forests, villages, rivers and more.
Once run out of tiles,
it's game over, but you can always just carry on placing tiles and making the place look nice in creative mode when you're done.
Stick on some lo-fi beats for architects, lean back on the couch and be a gamer hexagon wild.
Then, slay the Spire.
Do you like card games?
How about roguelikes?
What if a developer came round and fused both of those genres together to create a compelling new fusion of the two?
That's the premise of Slay the Spire, which is one of the most exciting and enthralling indie games of the past decade.
If you'd like to see many...
play turn into hours before your eyes, Slay the Spire will be your new favourite game.
I tried it out during it's time on PlayStation Plus and then oops,
we'd have free Prime Ministers and Everton had won a couple of actual football matches.
It happened, I was there, I saw it, I think?
Did A dynamic single player deck builder,
Slay the Spire allows players to pick from one of four distinct characters, each of their own unique deck of cards.
Players take on each run by tackling the Spire, picking their favourite route to favour safe encounters or take some risks for better loops.
Throughout the runs you'll build up your deck with stronger cards, allowing you to finally slay them.
Dang Spire, number nine, God of War.
On the whole Sony has been doing an excellent job over the past few years of bringing their big exclusive games to PC so that a whole new
audience of players can join in.
That's pretty cool on its own, but Sony have also been ensuring that each game works on the Steam Deck 2.
are they might strain your battery fairly quickly, taking a modern masterpiece on the go is nothing to sneeze at.
You can take your pick from pretty much any Sony game released on Steam so far,
but for our money,
we're going with God of War 2018,
which tells the incredible story of Kratos trying to connect with his son Atreus after the death of the kid's mother.
Meanwhile, a bunch of Norse gods are determined to put a dampener on the father-san bonding time, meaning you'll have plenty of combat to sink your teeth into
alongside the emotional storyline.
The fact you can enjoy God of Wars boss fights on a handheld device is absolutely mind-boggling,
and it still will be when Ragnarok gets ported too.
The discourse around exclusivity, though, will always be boring.
Number Elden Ring.
Is there a more celebrated game than Elden Ring?
From Software's massive RPG has received a completely deserved amount of critical acclaim since launch in 2022,
and the best part is that the entire experience is completely verified for the Steam Deck.
There's a pick up and play appeal to Frommsoft's biggest source like title yet,
and that's never been more evident than people able to literally pick up a Steam Deck and play away.
Set in the lands between, you control the chosen tarnished, a warrior destined to battle the demigods that are running rampant across the lands.
greater level of freedom compared to other souls like titles,
players can choose where to go and which enemies they want to face,
meaning if you're running into a massive road block,
you can simply just go elsewhere and grind, which is just a god sent for a game as challenging as Elden Ring.
While Elden Ring may look a wee bit crusty on the deck compared to other platforms,
Elden Ring is still Elden Ring, and Soldier of Godric still has my wife and kids.
7.
Undertale At this point, Toby Fox's Undertale more than deserves its legacy as one of the best RPGs ever made.
What started as a love and tribute to old SNES RPGs like Earthbound Slash.
mother, with about 250% more ironic humour has turned into a globally recognised franchise in its own right.
When you've got Kenny Omega dressed up as one of your characters for an entrance in AEW,
you know you've made it and you can own that history yourself on the Steam Deck.
To be honest,
Undertale is quite a difficult game to nail down, as it combines bits of different genres create something unlike anything else ever made.
You as a human who falls down a hall into a world filled with creatures and monsters,
but instead of murdering everything you see like every other RPG,
you instead have the choice of befriending these creatures, leading to a humorous and emotionally resonant adventure.
Did anyone in here do a fully genocide play through though?
Let us know in the comments down below, we're just curious, just wondering.
No reason.
No 6.
Vampire A certified sensation within gaming when it launched in 2022,
Vampire Survivors is right up there among the best Steam Deck games thanks to the game's simple but repetitive nature.
A time to survival spin on a bullet hell roguelike, you pick a character and essentially allow yourself to be mobbed by enemies.
Killing enemies levels you up which unlocks effects that can be stacked on top of each other,
allowing you to become the bullet hell as the game's marketing implies.
While the gameplay does all the attacking for you,
the compulsion comes from watching your build go from weak to god killer over the span of half an hour.
Even if there's nothing in this entry that sells you on the appeal of vampire survivors
it's a game that's just too good to pass up anyway.
You buy it for less than a fiver.
And if you like it, you've given yourself hundreds of hours of content.
If you don't, it's not like you lost too much money.
In terms of sheer value, Vampire Survivors has it in spades, especially if you pick up the also dirt cheap DLC.
Shoutout!
out to all of the other survivors games out there inspired by this,
like Brotato, Soul Stone survivors, 20 minutes till Dawn, and Deep Rock Galactic survivor, which really should have the subtitle Crack and Stone.
Number Dead Cells There's an awful lot of roguelikes available on Steam at the minute, but then...
few of them that have had the same enduring power that Dead Cells has enjoyed.
Despite being released in early access on Steam back in 2017,
Motion Twin have been diligent in ensuring that there's new content and features coming to the game in the years since and
that only just wrapping them up now.
If you're looking for a Steam Deck game that's had so many updates that it's like watching a live text commentary from the
Dal vs Federer at Wimbledon 2008, Dead Cells is a solid bet.
A Rogue Vania,
which smartly blends elements of both the Metroidvania and roguelike genres,
Dead Cells sees players controlling the prisoner,
exploring an island filled with monsters looking Taeu,
Lim from Lim,
players explore a variety of dungeons and biomes that are randomly generated,
earning new weapons and loot along the way in order to survive your run.
You'll die a hell of a lot, but you'll have plenty of fun all the same.
It even has pretty dang good Castlevania DLC, and what is a man?
but a miserable pile of steam points they will never spend.
Number select.
list.
Given how much jumping and climbing is involved with the activity,
it's shocking that it took so long for a game developer to make a platforming game about climbing a mountain.
In before someone makes mountain simulator, a game in which you were a mountain and have to, oh, they did it.
Ok, moving on.
As games go,
Celeste probably isn't the most realistic version of mountaineering given the fact that you have double jumps and air dashes,
but the tight gameplay and incredible story makes Celeste a journey worth taking.
You take control of Madeline, a determined young woman who resolves to climb Celeste Mountain, despite how much the people around her protest her decision.
The mountain itself is host to a lot of strange occurrences, making the climb much more perilous than usual.
But Madeline's biggest obstacle is the personification of her anxiety and self-doubt.
Taunting her through every step.
100% completion is going to be taunting you in this one as it's an absolute humdinger.
Yeah, best of luck!
3.
Yakuza 0 Fans had been clamoring for a handheld RGG studio experience for a long time,
while it's not a Switch port being able to play Yakuza 0 on your Steam Deck is still an amazing feeling.
series, telling the story of how Kiryu and Goro became the Dragon of the Dojima and the Mad Dog of Shimano respectively.
While there's two protagonists, the story does an excellent job of weaving together one whole narrative, and the combat is bone-crunching in its viciousness.
For many,
Yakuza 0 is seen as the pinnacle of the whole franchise,
but there's also other series that are verified on Steam Deck 2,
so if you're like this one,
you've got a lot more games to play and a lot more squeeze to hide when someone enters the room.
2.
Hades roguelike that's so nice, they're making a second one.
Yeah, that's not our best work, but Hades might have overtaken dead cells when it comes to...
being the most successful roguelike in a genre that is becoming more and more and more crowded by the day.
Supergiant's dungeon-crawling roguelike has become an absolutely massive hit since its early access release back in 2019,
but if you haven't played this groundbreaking game yet, the Steam Deck is the perfect time to get started.
There's might be...
being called Hades, the whole game is about escaping from the clutches of the Greek god of the underworld himself.
Instead, you control Zacharyus, Hades' son who's grown tired with the administrative life of the underworld.
Also, he wants to find his mum who's living on the surface world.
Unfortunately for Zach, Hades throws the full weight of his forces at him and in order.
to get strong enough to succeed, you'll need to be ready to die, over and over and over again.
Oh no, I have to talk to Megara again.
Oh no, please don't step on me, wink.
And number one, Hollow Knight.
Our forgiveness tour for forgetting to include Hollow Knight on another list video.
is finally complete.
Team Cherry has cultivated an incredible amount of love and respect thanks to their work on Hollow Knight,
which many would consider to be in the upper echelon of all-time best Metroidvania titles.
Nintendo Konami might have been the originators of the genre with their work on Metroid and Castlevania respectively,
but is games like Hollow Knight that have really advanced the medium in recent years.
Set in an underground world known as Hallownest,
players take control of a Nameless Knight, whose destined to explore this complex series of areas, defeating enemies and bosses along the way.
Each boss you defeat and area you scour will give you more abilities that aid in your exploration.
leading to more areas and even harder bosses.
As games go,
Hollow Knight can be at times brutal,
but not as brutal as watching every single digital showcase in the hopes of maybe hearing Hornet go, again Silk Song's release date gets announced.
Keep the faith, Silky Boys, our time will come.
Oh, you caught me.
You caught me.
Nothing doing now.
I doing anything.
Did you enjoy the list of the best thing that games ever released in like two years?
We really try to go for like a variety of genres.
So, like lots more stuff was represented.
Of course, it's, you know, there's thousands of games on Steam.
If there's one game that you love that didn't make the cut, be sure to let us know down below.
And we might make another video of underrated Steamnet games or something like that.
Just, you know, there's loads of games, guys.
There's of them.
I've been Jimmy Denalen for Cultured Watchers, and thank you
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