I feel like there are too many to list, but an obvious one that I don’t see mentioned is Halo. The Master Chief Collection is pretty great, and has a ton of content that can all be consumed in short sessions (except for certain levels on legendary difficulty).

It is also still on sale on Steam for a little longer, if you don’t have it already.

My only problem is being a misanthrope, and scared of the general multiplaying public, I’m always intimidated by public games, but I’d love to convince enough buddies to play a campaign through.

I have 183 hours in Barotrauma, split between multiplayer and the sub editor (and a little bit of testing my sub alone). I have never played a public game or single player, it has basically all been the campaign with friends.

Most recently, I’ve been hosting occasional Barotrauma events with my inclusive gaming community, each one continuing the campaign we started early this year. The last event was just over the weekend. I don’t know when the next Barotrauma event will be, yet, but anyone who can follow our Code of Conduct is welcome to join!

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It isn’t just for menus, having good mouse input allows you to play significantly more games than with just joysticks.

The touchpads also can act as extra buttons or touch menus, giving you way more input options for games where you don’t need one to be a mouse.

It will always happen. Games are going to generally target the lowest common denominator: the weakest of the current generation mainstream consoles. Right now, that means Xbox Series S.

I’ve been playing through Mark of the Ninja Remastered. It works pretty well after you switch to Proton, as the native version has some bugs and crashes.

Before that, the previous game I played through on the Deck was A Short Hike, which is incredibly cute.

I hosted a Barotrauma event with my inclusive Linux gaming community. We had 5 people playing through a campaign that we started early this year, and we ended up playing for a long time.

I agree with what many others are saying:

• Ground Branch gameplay is very reminiscent of old Ghost Recon. Probably the standout feature is the customization/loadouts.
• Ready Or Not is like SWAT, which has a lot of similarities to old Rainbow Six. The atmosphere is a lot more grim compared to the others. This also has decent AI teammates and commanding over them when playing single player.
• Arma 3. In a lot of ways, the Arma series can be compared to Ghost Recon, but with a ton of extra realism/depth/scale/gameplay possibilities. There is also a ton of single player content across the base game, DLCs, and community-made missions and mods. Or you can make your own missions. The official single player content has a surprising amount of lore, if you are into that. Compared to the rest of my suggestions, this is the only game that isn’t in early access (and it shows). There is so much more to say about Arma 3, if you have interest, but I don’t want to write too much here if you don’t need to hear more.
• Zero Hour has had a lot of its thunder stolen by Ready Or Not, but it might still be worth looking into if you want more options.

One problem: It is not easy to legally obtain Prey (2006) anymore. I wish more old games were still available on Steam :(

Perhaps Barotrauma would be interesting to you? Most of the game can be boiled down to navigating a submarine from point to point, with stops to gather resources and complete objectives along the way.

It also has fuel, maintenance, upgrades, etc.

I just bought Silica and Gunner, HEAT, PC!, which have both been pretty cool so far. Both are early access games that I wanted to support.

Silica has way more to it than I expected, and I’m excited to play more (hopefully with friends, at some point).

GHPC is sort of like single player (for now) War Thunder, with a pretty cool simulation of Cold War era tanks and ballistics while still being fairly accessible. One interesting thing it does: the tank commander will speak to you (which is where the title of the game comes from), and it will get increasingly more tense and eventually turn into panicked screams, depending on the situation.

I’m playing these on Linux, and I have a weird audio issue with GHPC. Nobody else seems to experience this, and it doesn’t happen on my Steam Deck.

I’d go back to Oblivion if it weren’t for the scaling enemies. That really takes a lot of the fun away for me, ever since I realized the game does this.

I was really frustrated with Fable 3 when I

For all of my gaming needs, I have a desktop PC running Linux as well as a Steam Deck. I recently came back from a trip that had me using my Steam Deck a lot, and it was great.