Looking for something that won’t kill my battey and has some depth. I have Vampire Survivor but that get stale after about 30 minutes.
Tunic, hades, dead cells, some old rpg like fallout nev vegas or fable
can’t recommend Tunic enough. Such an amazing game with extremely deep lore.
The Golden Path is probably one of the coolest puzzles I’ve done in a game, ever.
Stardew Valley would be my pick.
Chained Echoes. 16 bit RPG with great art and gameplay, but it’s not hard on the battery and it has modern day QOL features.
100% support this. Feels like it was made for the deck. Gives me super big Game Gear vibes but like you said, with 2023 qol.
If you prefer some story-heavy games, you can try Eastward. It has gorgeous art style and controls and UI are a great fit for handheld devices such as Deck and Switch. It takes ~15% battery a hour and can be completed in 10 to 15 hours.
If you’re fine with longer games which will take 45-70 hours total, try some 2D JRPGs like Trails in the Sky FC (which also has nice touch input in menus!), Trails from Zero and Chained Echoes. All tree aren’t battery-heavy at all.
Emulating Gamecube games is pretty low-spec if you compile the shaders beforehand. Battery life nets 2-3 hours on flights for me (Steam Deck). I have nearly 2000 hours of Animal Crossing GC combined, pls don’t judge me 😅.
Slay the Spire is a deck mainstay for me. A good run is 40 minutes to an hour.
It is also pretty easy on battery
Cat quest will take you about 5 hours to beat and is light to run. Streets of Rogue is good too.
I found civ5 was great to play when i when on a 4 hour flight.
Hades was practically made for Steam Deck
Hades is great, but it’s not very battery friendly for a 2d game in my experience.
You can turn on practically all the power saving features and it still runs great. I haven’t timed it, but it can go on pretty long.
If you’re into 2D platformers.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.If you like 2d platformers, I can recommend Swordigo for android. It’s old and free and it is long enough that a 6 hour flight will only get you halfway through. It has some challenging but not impossible boss fights and trick jumps.
Wizard of Legend
I have no idea how well it performs on Deck but I need to get someone else to play this game
Play some factorio. You’ll play it forever.
The factory must grow
I’m not.OP, but will also be on a long flight with steam deck soon. I keep hearing about Factorio and I think it’s time to push the button.
Controls are more mouse/kb oriented, but there are a LOT of players that game on steam deck.
The factory must grow
I first played on kb/m, and was skeptical about using a controller. It works great though.
If you’re flying commercial, you should be able to charge your steam deck while you fly.
Stardew valley can get like 5-6 hours of battery easy on the steam deck
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