Soooooo any war stories?
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Mine only arrived a couple of days ago, so I havenāt had a chance to really put it through its paces yet. Can say that Into the Breach works on it a treat, though.
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Have the big model since yesterday. My brother and I splurged on buying the big one ātogetherā to try it out.
Yesterday:
Downloading stuff left and right (weird I have still over 70% free storage? accusatory pointy finger What do you say to this MISTERrRRrrRr PS5???)
- Linking TV via Steamlink (30 sec done)
- Setting up PS4 controller via Bluetooth (30 sec done)
- Using Steam Voice Chat with crappy In-ear cable-bound headphones (setup 30 sec done)
- Playing Kingdom 2 Crowns with a friend on the other side of the country via remote play cooperatively like game, deck, controller and TV were born just for this one specific occasion (setup 30 sec done) without him realizing everything on my side has changed drastically
Today:
Using Desktop Mode for the first time, installing Mumble and Firefox like a boss (I donāt know a single Linux thing even if needed to save my life) butā¦
- mouse/trackpad unresponsive
- mouse pointer intermittently vanishing
- default controller layout for the desktop mode is utter crap
- recommended controller layout being awesome (but due to a bug cannot change it)
Overall, they really put in the hours to make the steamOS side of things smooth as silk and did the usual āNah, fix it laterā thing with everything elseā¦well, I do hope they do!
I already regret some games I purchased on my consoles for playing them on the big screen and on my couch when I could play them like this in the same way (granted the sticker shock stillā¦shocks?)
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I havenāt actually bought any new games since getting my Steam Deckāitās been great for working on my backlog and playing even more Vampire Survivors than I did on my laptop, without having to hear the laptop fan go nuts. Hyper Light Drifter is really goodāwho knew?
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I picked up Rogue Book again, I had trouble getting it to work on a Mac when it first came out and had returned it on Steam. It works good on the Steam Deck, although I donāt like the game as much as I would like.
I also picked up Aria Chronicle just to play on the Steam Deck, and it is good on there. I have only played an hour so far, because I really want to save that for business tripsā¦the irony is that my company just put a hold on all business travel. So the two trips I had coming up (one was supposed to be right now and the other in a few weeks) have been cancelled.
Monster Train has been solid on there also, I like that I donāt have to boot camp over for a quick game of Monster Train.
Grim Dawn takes a little setup around the control scheme, but once you have it set up right for hotkeys it is solid on there.
Hades is a dream on there.
I have been swamped with work, so have not had time for more testing, but do plan to test Civ 6 soon.
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Age of Empires IV is free to try on Steam this weekend.
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Gah! Out of town and away from my PC. Would love to see how it is now.
I read your preview. Remember that Fox in the Forest didnāt have asynchronous either. Iād be willing to be that they donāt put it in Munchkin, but who knows? I own the physical game but have yet to play it. My kids like take that card games like Exploding Kittens and Unstable Unicorns so maybe I should give it a try.
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I never bought Fox & the Forest and had forgotten that. Thanks for the reminder!
I donāt think thereās really any way Munchkin would work asynchronously. Itās one of the most āTake Thatā games ever and you can play a card nearly anytime IIRC.
Predominantly most people play diplomatic early on and save all the truly screw over cards until someoneās close to getting their last level though.
Itās like Magic the Gathering if everyone played with nothing but 0 cost artifacts, instants, and interrupts in their decks, and it was almost always advantageous to wait until someone else does something before playing your cards at all.
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Overboss getting a digital port
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Is that from the same people as boss monster?
Brotherwise designed both physical games.
This digital one is by TavroxGames who also did Legend of Keepers, Boss Monster Digital was done by Plain Concepts.
The game or the app? The board game is by the same people.
It looks like last week Spirit Island updated to include online multiplayer.
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would like to know if itās working fine before shelling out 20 ā¬ 
and a word of caution: async play isnāt explicitly mentioned.
if yes and yes, it will be worth it.
They didnāt add asynchronous to their other games so Iām doubting Spirit Island is asynchronous.
And Iām with you on the $20. Too much for a game Iām not familiar with that I may or may not ever actually play. Asynchronous could change that but Iām not holding my breath.
I really enjoy Spirit Island (have it both physical and the digital version) but I predominantly play it two handed solo.
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Itās a great implementation of an excellent game. The multiplayer is kind of irrelevant though. I canāt imagine playing it digitally with other people. Hopefully they move on to do the Jaghed Earth stuffā¦.