#great on steam deck

[pendragongames]

Arcade Paradise

I just started this game this morning and I'm already obsessed, and I can't figure out why??? It's about running your dad's laundromat to """learn what real work is""" and you secretly run an arcade out of the back room. Literally the main mechanic of the game is figuring out how to do the least work/do work most efficiently in order to spend more time playing the arcade games. But I love it???

The arcade minigames are so cute and racing to finish a level before the dryer goes off makes it even more fun. Plus, it has the "numbers go brrr" appeal that all business simulator type games have. The character interactions/narrative is also really nice (dad is a heartless capitalist but big sis is amazing). I also enjoy the cleaning simulator aspect of it, and the little gamified overlay for menial tasks is so cute.

Ok now that I've laid it out I get why I like it so much. It's a cohesive fusion of multiple genres I love. g2g I have laundry to do

[npfehr]

Recently Completed: The Last Campfire (PC)

This is a charming, and also melancholy game about being a little blue person named Ember who seems to be travelling through a purgatory of some kind. Along the way you will meet the Forlorn, other little people like you who have given up hope of journeying on. Delve into their minds and solve puzzles to reawaken them and gather them at large magical campfires!

The visual style and narration are cute, masking a deep pathos underneath the game. The puzzles provide a nice challenge without stumping you for too long -- sometimes you can get the answer just by playing around.

It is lovely and not very long. Try it!

I drew one of my favorite scenes from the game🫶

[illufinch]

look at my son

[koko2unite]

[fyeahnix]

I always get happy seeing people get their steam deck and realizing how cool the system is. I felt like a kid on Christmas when I opened mine for the first time. Such an awesome device, man.

my steam deck is not my main gaming device so there are times where I don't use it for months. and I'm perfectly fine with that. it's the "I wanna sit on my couch/bed and play a backlog title" or "I'm traveling and wanna game" device.

[pretty-kitten-paw]

Steam deck interesting tho it makes me.wanna go on a rant about intellectualism in Linux spaces. I get ot it's a build your own pc and that shit isn't supposed to be easy because you could destroy everything

But

One explanation? One lil pop up saying hey btw files work a lil different here. Instead I've watched 4 tutorial vids, countless forum advice threads and too many keysmashes to my friends to get this thing to work.

It doesn't make you stupid to explain. It doesn't make me stupid for needing the explanation. The assumption of knowledge in linux spaces feels like a direct and opposite reaction to main stream Internet where you need a half a guide to tell you how the file explorer works.

So how about some middle groups. Lil turoeial on terms and what they mean? Make it skippable? Lil glossary? A single explanation in reddit over why what I'm doing actually works?

No? OK. Back to my roms..

[azuresage]

ok heres some slightly organized notes on the new wilds stuff that ive been editing over the past few days

seems both the palico and the hunter now have spoken dialogue in the story. Before, the hunter never had a voice of their own, until risebreak added in-quest situational voice lines. Now they've gone the full mile. I'm into it.. provided we get personality options to choose from. they could do what they did for dragons dogma 2 and have personality sets with unique dialogue for each set. there should also be an option to remain silent, as well. that would be ideal. also hoping the character creator will be as in depth as dd2's...

right away, we see the hunter use the slinger for environmental effects. that's probably the most inoffensive thing they could have carried over from world... still really didn't want to see it back.

i see the new mount can scoop you up when you get downed, so wirefall is still a thing, just in a new form. looks a little more balanced, at least.

small monsters attacking a large monster in a group. that's neat. kind of like an expansion on turf wars.

we see the hunter swap from a greataword to a bowgun while riding the mount. that's pretty insane. we've never had a weapon change on the fly like that before. that's gonna be a game-changer. part of me wants to complain about it detracting from the spirit of pre-hunt preparation, but that spirit's been dead since world introduced item box and cooking at camp anyway, so i dunno how to feel...

the next thing we see is a montage of brand new moves, and possibly a stance change with the greatsword. so im going to make a guess here... rather than switch skills, we're getting stances. so it could kind of be akin to the skill swap scroll in sunbreak where you switch between two custom movesets on the fly. now we are changing our stances, and with it our movesets. i have to admit, the idea of that really gets me excited. thats just the sort of spice to the gameplay i was hoping for... if it's what they're doing. and the new greatsword moves all looked incredibly cool. i did say more command input type moves would be a satisfactory alternative to special moves. we already see three new ones for just the greatsword. the more the better. im hoping its at least three per stance. i have to say, i'm feeling optimistic about this now. its looking to be more than world 2 electric boogaloo, if this is anything to go on. ^ so they came out and said that this is called focus mode, and it... is basically what i thought it was gonna be, kind of? it still sounds cool. it slows you down and lets to target specific parts of monsters, it sounds like. that's neat. its still an alternative gameplay style. me likey that. the more move variety, the better. switching in and out of focus mode does kind of still make me think of skill swap from sunbreak, and its still got new moves to go with it. im for it.

sos flare from world is back. i just hope it doesnt suck like it did in world. rise's version of it was functionally better, id say. i hope they improved upon the mechanics of it if theyre pulling more from world than rise for this.

im gonna make an easy guess that the story is youre searching for that kid with the necklace's parents who went missing on an expedition into these "forbidden lands" as theyre apparently called. honestly as far as im concerned the story is just a set piece for the locales. the maps in world sucked, but some of them had really neat lore to go with their biomes, so if theyre continuing with that, all i can hope for is better layouts. also laughing my ass off at seikret autorunning to objectives. no thanks. that's an L. world's maps were so bad they had to introduce that to make chasing monsters through them bearable. the fact that we are doing that again doesnt inspire confidence. i also hope the story doesnt command too much attention. it was really intrusive in world/iceborne, if im being honest. risebreak did a fine enough job of it, i think. monhun really doesnt need a deep story.

in the same vein, i really do not care for how hard theyre trying to push the series to be this big triple a game that competes with god of war or something. it doesnt need 50 billion ray tracings and the ability to see pores on the skin of the npcs, who i must agree do look kind of uncanny. gemma and alma's faces look off... like. rise looked perfectly fine. the fidelity of the graphics are not that important. we dont need the bloatware. speaking of which, this game better run on steam deck just fine, or i will explode capcom. i dont want to deal with another dragons dogma 2 situation.

this deserves a separate bullet. they better keep monster hunter language as a voice option like they did for rise. im still pissed they didn't carry that into stories 2, and even more pissed they cut it out of the stories 1 remaster entirely (which was a deal-breaker on the remaster for me). dont let that die. its so cool. its a big part of the immersion and its such a charming thing about the series.

[bonbonzzz]

Maybe I just bought Forza Horizon 5 as soon as I found out about the KITT DLC. Maybe I didn't. I did.

[vattasref]

Xkit Rewritten settings across devices?

just a v quick little guide (with pictures!) for people who don't know how to transfer their XKit rewritten settings across their devices easily

(putting it under a cut because I've added alot of images and it takes up alot of room)

this is a pretty beginner guide, all you need to know/be able to do is to sign in across devices with the same account to access bookmarks or Google Docs on both devices, or just manually copy the Pastebin link

alternatively, you can use this basic recommended setup I made for a friend, to save you a little time, and tweak the settings to suit your needs

I'm running Google Chrome, but there's a Firefox version of XKit Rewritten too, and this should work the same

I've tested this so far on a Windows laptop, Chromebook and a Steam Deck, and all are working perfectly

here's a tutorial on getting Google Chrome on the Steam Deck (and getting it to open in Game Mode if you prefer that)

here's a tutorial on a workaround to use XKit Rewritten on mobile Firefox browser mode

I'm currently writing up my own tutorial on getting XKR to work on mobile, along with Chromium based browsers

(XKit Rewritten = XKR for simplicity)

my XKR backup is too long to paste into in a new Text Post and Save as Draft, which is usually my go to for saving/hosting things for Tumblr, and trying to check if I can add it to a new page on my blog crashes the tab/Chome entirely on both my Chromebook and my Steam Deck, so neither of these options are viable

On the Exporting Device

go to your addons bar, select the XKit Rewritten "X" icon, backup, then "copy all"

Pastebin method:

open pastebin, "+ paste", paste the code/text log into the box, and "Create New Paste". you don't need to add any tags or be signed in for this. you can leave everything blank

bookmark this text file and save it as something obvious like "xkit backup", for example. save it to a bookmark folder or just your bookmarks bar. not important as long as you can find it again

on the device you want to import the settings to, open the bookmarked page, then select all the text by selecting the "raw" option, click in the text somewhere and hit CTRL+A, CTRL+C. this will highlight all the text and copy it

Google Docs method:

open Google Docs and log in with your Google Account. hit the big "+", "Create a New Document", and paste your code/text log in here. Save as something you'll remember like "xkit backup" for example

(you can bookmark this Doc for ease of finding, but it will be the last file in your list until you add more Docs)

on the device you want to import the settings to, open the Google Doc, Select all text either by selecting "Edit", then "Select All", Right click, then "Copy", or just hitting CTRL+A, CTRL+C

On the Importing Device:

open the XKR addon tab again, "Backup", this time "Import", then paste the text into the box. When you hit "Restore" it'll say "Successfully restored"

refresh your Dashboard and you should have all your settings restored!

Remember if you're transferring to a different blog, such as between RP Blogs, you will have all the tags and filters from your other blog, so you may need to go in and fiddle with those, but overall it's easier to import your existing settings than to start over from scratch!

[imperatoralicia]

Lil Gator Game is an extremely good game that’s full of genuine moments of heart and fun. I highly recommend it! 

[leveragehunters]

Took the plunge into Baldur's Gate 3, and basically rolled my old WoW hunter. Even named her Tarma! I love her and the game so far is a blast - I'm only 6 hours in, so there's a long way to go. I'm playing on the Rog Ally (a handheld), which I also love, and it runs like a dream.

Def recommend!

Bonus pic of my Rog Ally, featuring (and named after) my old WoW hunter:

[questersrest]

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[akkivee]

hey there! since you were (are?) a fellow Sonic fan, how do you feel about the new game?

hiya!!!! still am a sonic fan and absOLUTELY STOKED ABOUT THE SHADOW(X SONIC) GAME LMAO

did you see the steam page for the game???? this part in particular

tells me that they’re revamping shadow’s character like we got with amy, tails and knux in frontiers and that’s so exciting!!!!! esp since we haven’t had a proper look at who shadow is since 2006 GRAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤

[gigginox]

we have to blow up capcom. it's the only way

[beatcroc]

lol. lmao even

[megahorous]

I played some Power Wash Simulator whilst listenin' ter music for the first time in a while; that's always nice. I had just enough credit to get the Back to the Future DLC pack

Oddly, it seems to be movie set guys talking at you this time, rather than the characters being "real" as in the previous crossover missions...that probably would've been cooler