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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Tunic, hades, dead cells, some old rpg like fallout nev vegas or fable
Cat quest will take you about 5 hours to beat and is light to run. Streets of Rogue is good too.
Stardew valley can get like 5-6 hours of battery easy on the steam deck
Pizza Tower is fun.
I found civ5 was great to play when i when on a 4 hour flight.
If you’re flying commercial, you should be able to charge your steam deck while you fly.
Baba is You can last for over 6 and a half hours - the longest battery life I’ve ever seen on my Deck. You just need to enable the minimum TDP limit.
I also believe Brotato lasts a lot, Pixross too.
I have flown twice with a deck-like windows pc and with a switch.
Both times i loaded them up with all the games. Probably 10 times more i could ever hope to play.
I ended up playing only Lumines.
Wizard of Legend
I have no idea how well it performs on Deck but I need to get someone else to play this game
How about SNES or GBA emulation? For what it’s worth, many flights now have a power outlet between the seats
