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fri, (edited ) do gaming w Anyone knows about calm Windows games with 1-finger touch screen support?

I didn’t test most of these personally on a touch screen, but they seem like good candidates to check:

  • Pawnbarian
  • Osmos
  • Hexcells (+ Hexcells Plus + Hexcells Infinite)
  • Frog Detective (+ 2 + 3)
  • The Witness
  • Taiji
  • shapez
  • Her Story sorry, it needs a keyboard
  • Eufloria
  • KAMI
  • Hook (+ 2)
  • The Pedestrian
  • Subsurface Circular
  • Dorfromantik
  • Polychromia
  • Hidden Folks
  • Cogs
buedi,

That´s quite a list! Thank you :-) I even have a few on that list and will try them out. I did not think about The Witness, but it´s worth a try. I did not finis it on PC, but it has some really hard puzzles in it that keep you occupied for a while at the same place without the need to move around a lot.

The Hexcells series is awesome, played through all of them (of course not through all the random ones in Infinite ;-)), but might be worth to try again on the tablet. I tried Tametsi (also a puzzler), but it did not scale with the High DPI screen and was super tiny.

Moonrise2473,

Her story definitely needs a keyboard, no?

fri,

It definitely does! I misremembered, thought that you can manually select from a list of tapes. Thanks, will edit the parent comment.

petrescatraian, do gaming w Anyone knows about calm Windows games with 1-finger touch screen support?

@buedi I don't know how calm this is but... Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

buedi,

I had a good laugh looking at the Video on Steam. I am not sure if this will help me to wind-down, more something I might rage-quit in the middle of the night and then need a coffee to calm down again :-> But it does look pretty fun. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

shrugal, do gaming w What game genre would you like to see more entrants in?

Medieval economy/politics/life sims like The Guild (aka Europa 1400).

FarceOfWill,

It’s sad the closest recent other entry is like CK3 a totally different genre really

I miss the patrician series

Lemonyoda,

Patricia more plays Like a refocussed ANNO entry. Its one of my All Time favorites and i wish for another entry…

I dont think its Line the guild though :)

FarceOfWill,

You marry people based on how ugly they are and the size of their dowry. That’s solid the guild gameplay

108, do gaming w What game genre would you like to see more entrants in?
@108@kbin.social avatar

Mech sim like the old Mechwarrior games. Not the new ones they are gatcha pay to win

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

What about MechWarrior 5?

GrayBackgroundMusic,

Not op. I saw the good reviews and so I thought I’d give it a try. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I am very bad at that game and die all the time. I looked up other negative reviews and some people seem to agree with me that I just need more armor or something. I don’t understand all of the positive reviews and how difficult I find the game to be. I loved MW one and two and three, but I guess this one isn’t for me anymore.

Mummelpuffin,
@Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org avatar

You… you do realize MW5 is single-player and definitely not a “gatcha game” right? And has a pretty robust modding scene? And has a clan-based sequel coming up in a new engine?

mrh, do gaming w What game genre would you like to see more entrants in?

Metroidvanias of knowledge a la Outer Wilds

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkv05ZO7d8I

Tunic is another example that he goes over in the video. There might be some others mentioned but it’s been a while since I watched this.

Mummelpuffin, (edited )
@Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org avatar

Hmm… While it’s nothing like Outer Wilds and infamous for probably being the most obtuse video game ever created, I wonder if you’d like La Mulana? Metroidvania about being an archeologist where you sort of need to actually peice together the culture and history of the civilization you’re studying to move forward sometimes. It’s style of storytelling is closer to FromSoft (hence the obtuseness) but still.

MilliaStrange, do gaming w Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?

I beat Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines for the first time on Deck. KBM controls bound to the system really did it for me and since it was a low spec game it ran flawlessly. And the game’s reputation holds up (well written and engaging but janky lol)

Evolone,
@Evolone@beehaw.org avatar

Ooh, I’ve never heard of this one. I’ll have to check it out!

uninvitedguest, do gaming w Did anyone get the Limited Edition OLED Steam Deck
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca avatar

Just purchased one a minute ago, albeit in Canada.

stolid_agnostic, do gaming w Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

Are people continually opening their steam decks? I am confused at the opportunity to have stripped screws and dethreaded holes.

helenslunch,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Some people are, yes. For modifications, mostly.

stolid_agnostic,

I can understand wanting mods, but at the same time, it’s not like you can open your iPhone without damaging it in the process. I guess I want to say that I can get why people would want to add stuff to their thing, but I don’t see why someone would expect Valve to have accounted for that.

Kedly,

Thats OP’s point? Valve has gone above and beyond what’d be reasonable to expect?

helenslunch,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

When I get my new OLED the first thing I will do is crack it open and swap the SSDs. Partly because the other one has all my data on it and it be an eternity to move it over and partly because the old one has already been swapped for a 1TB.

Crozekiel,

You’re missing the point of this post… They specifically made a change to make it easier to open and put back together without damage, which is not the norm in most related industries these days. That’s a good thing that we have been conditioned not to expect because of companies like Apple that fully do not want you to open your device ever for any reason.

Your comment sounds like “well you can’t open an iPhone without damaging it, why should you be able to open a steam deck without damaging it”… Very much corporate overlord shill vibes.

stolid_agnostic,

“Corporate shrill”. Why was it necessary to make it personal?

My point is that you can’t expect companies to do good things. Valve seems to be an exception.

Also you have to admit that the title frames it like a complaint. Top post points this out

erwan,

You just need to open it once to strip a screw

aeki, do gaming w Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?

Tried Hollow Knight for the first time on the Deck, it works so well!

I’m not even specially good at gaming but I thought Hornet (a Hollow Knight boss) was quite enjoyable and not that hard and I wonder if it has to do with the Deck controls, since everyone has mentioned how difficult that one is (I did find all other bosses very difficult so this is not a boast).

Edit to mention that Horizon: Zero Dawn is another one that I only tried with the Deck and it also works really well, though this one consumes a lot more battery compared to HK.

DeathsEmbrace, (edited )

I am going to sound like an unpopular opinion but some games are just easier without keyboard and mouse. I personally have a controller for these games.

Edit: Xbox one with usb(faster latency)

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

Interesting. Which controller?

Aggy,

I'm not OP, but I use an Xbox one controller.

The newer ones just use Bluetooth and these days my primary gaming computer is a laptop. Works fantastic, just plug and play really.

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

Thanks!

I've been hearing that those Xbox controllers work very seamlessly with PCs. I'll probably buy one soon. I'll use it with MAME and some Steam games.

theangriestbird,

just want to say, if you have the choice to buy either the Xbox One or the newer Xbox Series controllers, it’s worth it to go for the newer one. Some of the buttons (the bumpers in particular) are way better on the newer controller.

guyrocket, (edited )
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar
theangriestbird,

yep! i’ve got that Lunar Shift one, it looks pretty sick. Not like “i would pay extra money for this” sick, but you know.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@kbin.social avatar

Disagree on HZD unless there were significant updates. I was around halfway through the game when I bought my deck, loaded it up on there to see how it ran, and uninstalled after about 15 minutes of never being able to make it over 15 FPS on lowest settings.

It's playable, if stuttery, in town and in cutscenes. When you start combat it becomes a PowerPoint. Which is a shame, because I really really liked that game, but I finished it on PC instead.

Monster Hunter Rise has been scratching that particular genre itch for me on the Deck though. Rise was built for the Switch so it plays on the Deck like it was born there. Smooth as butter.

aeki,

Now that I think about it, I had to tweak some settings for HZD according to some guide, but I don’t remember exactly what I did. After that, it worked quite well. Perhaps it wasn’t 60 fps but 40? For me that was good enough.

It could still depend on standards. For example people seem to say Rimworld is great on the Deck but I absolutely disagree.

MooseGas, do gaming w Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?
@MooseGas@kbin.social avatar

State of decay 2. I never really got into it until I got the deck.

Boiglenoight, do games w What are your go-to sources for game reviews and finding new games?

The Jeff Gerstmann Show, Nextlander, Opencritic. Trusted sources are Game Informer, Gamespot, Eurogamer and IGN.

ThisOne, do games w What are your go-to sources for game reviews and finding new games?

Zero Punctuation for me. He has a similar taste in games to what I like and a so so positive ZP review is usually a solid buy for me.

I guess the name is changing soon to fully ramblematic? There’s drama with the owner of the ZP IP right now and the folks who actually own the IP are 100% gonna fuck it up. Creator is starting fresh after a walking from a bad deal is how I understand the situation.

YungOnions,

Are you aware that Yahtzee has left The Escapist?

ThisOne,

Yes and his new content will be released as fully ramblomatic, realsed under second wind instead of escapist…

bridge_too_close, do games w What are your go-to sources for game reviews and finding new games?
@bridge_too_close@kbin.social avatar

I'd say find a youtuber or streamer who has similar tastes to you and follow them. Personally, I follow SkillUp and ACG.

You can also check out OpenCritic for a review aggregator.

xilliah, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 5th

Oxygen not included. Today my cook Splug decided to take a nap in the toilet:

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/a77c6706-9d85-43ea-8067-87eeba3e492c.webp

Then I dug to the asteroid’s molten core and dropped a ton of water in. It filled the whole base with high pressure steam and killed everybody.

ystael, do gaming w The Talos Principle 2 Review Thread

I enjoyed the first game very much but never finished it because I was distracted by some other shiny object. How much does 2 spoil the first game’s plot?

Ashen44,

In the first moments of the game they give you a full summary of the plot of the first game. If you want to play the first game for the story I recommend you hold out on this one until afterwards.

ystael,

OK, that’s what I had kind of feared. Thank you!

Not like it will be such a hardship to finally finish it - just have to resist the temptation to play Monster Hunter instead :)

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