I’ll be travelling soon and was wondering what are good games for low power-usage and offline?
Previously I enjoyed:
- Into The Breach
- Baba Is You
- Vampire Survivors
- Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)
At the moment I’m planning to set up:
- Lufia 2 (SNES)
- Shadowrun (SNES + Genesis versions)
- Golden Sun (GBA)
- A Link To The Past (SNES)
- Minish Cap (GBA)
- A Link Between Worlds (NDS) - never played it, hopefully the controls map well!
- Fire Emblem: Awakening (NDS) - same as above, never had a NDS
- Oracle Of Ages (GBA)
- Chrono Trigger (SNES)
- Ogre Battle 64 (N64) - not sure how bad the power usage is on the N64 emulators
Maybe the Ace Attorney and Professor Layton series too which I haven’t played. Also GTA1, London and 2 if they work. I love Advance Wars too but I’ve played it too many times already.
Basically anything that is easy to run, low power, and easy to play with just the controls and small screen in a cramped space. Ideally nothing too difficult / stressful like Hollow Knight that could be hard to play without good screen brightness or cramped.
I like a lot of older PC games but unfortunately they’re difficult to play without a mouse and on the small screen - e.g. Ultima VII and Arx Fatalis.
For me lately it’s Tales of Maj’Eyal, Halls of Torment, and especially right now Shapez and FTL (with the Multiverse mod).
+1 for Halls of Torment. You won’t be able to think about anything else.
On a side note, how is Tales on Deck? Does it work well with the controller?
so glad to see this, I just got a steam deck this week and tales of majeyal is my all time favorite game ever. I’ve played for years and beat it once, my greatest achievement
You can make almost anything work well on deck with steam input
I think it works just fine. You can solo mouse the whole thing with the right trackpad but I also have the hotbar mapped to the left pad.