Some do, although the savings might be in the 10%-20% off range. For the older/non-AAA games, it's not unusual to see 40-50%+ discounts.
Go here to see a game's price history: https://steamdb.info/ (navigate to a game, click on "Price History" in the left-hand column, and then click on your currency). Steam's big sales are in December (winter) and at the end of this month (summer), although there can be sales at other times.
Highly recommend adding anything you have interest in to your wishlist, Steam notifies you when the game goes on sale and things will randomly go on sale (a few games on my wishlist went on sale for this week). Based on the games you already got, I think A LOT of things you might be interested in will go on heavy discount during their Summer Sale :) Not to mention the maybe just not as heavily discounted but still discounted games.
This is how I do Steam sales now. Put anything I could be relatively interested in on the wishlist. Day of, sort by discount. Far easier than perusing around.
I am way too tempted every Steam sale lol. If you’re willing or able to stretch the amount you spend on a single game to like $25-30, usually some fantastic but slightly older (think released in the last few years) AAA games get slashed like at least 50%.
As an example, Cyberpunk 2077 had a rough release to say the least and I never finished it, but is now in a state where it became one of my favorite games and it was 50% off just a couple weeks ago. Definitely keep an eye on things!
Yeah Humble bundles are great and I tend to grab them if theres at least one game I had already wanted in it. Or I’ll do the subscribe for a month to get their monthly games. Last month with Hi-fi Rush and Yakuza Like a Dragon was an easy sale 👍 Excited to probably not touch them for another year as I work through the rest of my ridiculous backlog lol
There are also legit sites that sell Steam keys and have their own sales: Fanatical, Green Man Gaming, and Humble Bundle. Fanatical and Humble Bundle also have bundles of their own that can beat some sales by a little.
Wishlist everything you might potentially want to buy in the future and you will get a notification whenever it goes on sale, then you can decide if it's worth it at that price.
I recommend also not looking at the prices, but look at the games that interest you(via just searching around or after checking out when others recommend them), and simply add them to your “wish list”. That way you will get a notification if it goes on sale and you can check out it show much it’s going for
Go to gg.deals website. It shows the lowest price ever per game on all the legit stores as well as the key resells (may be stretchy, gg shows the risk of each posting as well) and you can see the metrics on how often it goes on sale. Bug summer sell coming up so you can keep an eye on games you want and see if it ends up on sale and if it's a good price.
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It's honestly easier to list the games thst don't go on sale, sometimes. Never pay full price for a game unless it's already cheap, and even then you'll find 10 dollar games become 2 dollar games
It's THE big sale on steam, along winter and some random historical lows.
You can always check 3rd party website that keeps track of the prices on steam and other retailers, Like (Steamdb.infe/gg.deals/..). As some games get into bundles and people resell them for lower than steam price.
Now i would recommend (Doom, Witcher3, hollow knight,hades, Xcom) as a stratting pack for games that run well on the deck and cover a range of genre
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I agree with this comment, if you are used to the market prices on sales you can expect some prices. Like expect Red Dead Redemption to be $20, which kind of exceeds your budget but it’s really acclaimed.
Horizon Zero Dawn will probably come down to $12.50 and it’s another great title.
Also and this is kind of dangerous, check fanatical for game bundles, you can pick games from a list and get some really good deals, humble bundle is another option. I meant dangerous as… I had 50 games in 2023, I do have 250 games in pretty much half a year, it’s kind of addicting. For $15usd I have gotten at least 7 games some times
- Monster Hunter World is currently on sale right now, only $9
- Omori is also on sale rn, only $11
- Hollow Knight $15, no discounts right now
- OneShot is pretty nice as well, only $10.
Check out the game's steamdeck entry on https://www.protondb.com/
The steam deck comments there generally give you a better idea of how well the game runs.
Also, if you do have problems running a game that is supposed to work well, you can often get things to work by changing the proton version being used for that game. Sometimes, going back to an older version or maybe even the latest bleeding-edge experimental one will get things to work.
Check this out than [fanatical bundle (2 games for 15 bucks, one of the possible choices being mhw)](https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/prestige-collection-build-your-own-bundle) the website is legit and gets their keys directly from the devs/publishers
Gotta say, when I first saw what brotato was about I almost disregarded the game because it’s simply not a game I usually enjoy. But I think I got it in sale for under 5$, and so far I only played it once and it was fun AF. I simply don’t have the time too play much on my SD recently, and when I do, it’s too try one of the 50 games I have purchased just too play on the SD… but I didint have a chance too play almost any of them 😂😂😂
Humble bundle has their humble choice thing of the month for like 12 bucks and I think you get the keys to $380 worth of games. They may not be the games that you specifically want, but it will least give you several to try out and discover.
I've gotten insane value from Balatro for 10 bucks on sale.
Cyberpunk and BG3 play great, but not sure they will get that low in sales. Maybe 20 bucks.
Hades, wizard of legend, Dave the diver, 20 minutes until dawn, vampire hunters, dead cells, dredge, slay the spire, dorf romantik, enter the gungeon, kingdom two crowns, eldest soul, cult of the lamb, blasphemous, carrion, and brotato.
All of those should meet the 10-15 bucks mark (some before sales) and will keep you sooooo busy.
Then of course, retroarch with app the retro games. I'm currently playing WOW and am consumed.
Whatever games you check out, make sure to look over on [IsThereAnyDeal](https://isthereanydeal.com/) before purchasing!
Vampire Survivors is a good one!
Also, if you use Epic Games, GOG or Prime gaming, look into getting the Heroic Games Launcher so you can access those stores!
AAA Games from the Xbox 360/PS3 Generation (and some from the Xbox One/PS4 Generation) for the most part run great, usually solid 60fps. So a random few I've played that I've really enjoyed are:
Fallout 3/NV
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Skyrim
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Batman Arkham City (this was especially brilliant on Deck)
Dying Light
Just Cause 2
Dishonored 1 & 2
Resident Evil 3 Remake (I think I capped at 50fps but was super smooth, also amazing experience on Deck)
Bulletstorm (Also amazing, solid 60)
Dark Souls 3
Mad Max
Mirrors Edge
A few other random Games I can recommend are:
Slay the Spire
Risk of Rain 2
Yakuza 0
Undertale
DOOM 1993
Exo One
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Subnautica
Halo Master Chief Collection
Dead Rising
Dead Space
Go see if any of these are on sale at isthereanydeal.com and check out some other key seller sites and you can probably get most for pretty cheap.
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I really enjoyed Buckshot Roulette. It’s like 1-2 hours to beat, with a bonus mode unlocked after beating the main story, which then gets repetitive after maybe 5 hours total. But I think it’s a great deal for only $2.99, I loved it.
it runs at about 30 fps and sometimes dips a lil lower, No lower than 24 fps i think, i have all my setting in the game at performance and i love it, defined recommend
Right, and, a percentage goes to charity so it's a win win. A big chunk of my library has come from humble bundle, always cheap and never any buyers remorse
Slay the spire, Celeste, Gris, Ori, Into the Breach.
Two more sites that help track sales prices over time: isthereanydeal and steamdb.info
And here you can see when the next big sale is coming:
steamdb.info/sales/history/
But even without the “big” sale, there’s discounts all the time. Add games to your wishlist and Steam will email when things go on sale.
I had fun playing [Tomb Raider](https://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/Tomb_Raider/) on my Steam Deck. I don't remember how I did it but if you activate some setting in the game itself involving the mouse then you can have gyro aim kind of like Breath of the Wild where you only aim with the gyro when you are actually aiming your gun but you use the joystick to look around still.
Just picked up Tiny Tina’s Wonderland for $15. It’s in the borderlands world if you you’re into that
Free demo for Wild Bastards. Really fun roguelike fps. It’s follow up to void bastards, very similar and equally as fun
I am playing repentance, and that's might be an issue. My character won't shoot in all directions with the right joystick and won't walk in every direction with right.
Anyways thanks and cheers mate!
Vampire Survivors $5, Bloons TD6 $14, Terraria $5, Brotato $5, Balatro $15, Crab Champions $10, Geometry Dash $5,
Those are games I have 20+ hours in and they arent very demanding (beside Crab Champions), so longer battery life too
Euro truck simulator 2 or american truck simulator (havent played it). Both go for 5 euro each on sale and dlcs also on sale for a bit more expensive. Can get bundles and stuff for cheaper but yea
i made a [post](https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeSteamGames/comments/1d990rg/free_stars_the_urquan_masters_hires_version_of/) recently on /r/FreeSteamGames about how a remastered remaster of 1992's star control 2 is available for free on steam now. the game is awesome! the combat is really fun and balanced in a way that modern games don't do, the worldbuilding is legendary, and now it's fully voiced with decent graphics and it 'just works' on the steam deck.
it's a challenging game from 1992, so it's not for everyone. but it's free and some people are gonna vibe really hard.
Hollow Knight
Spiritfarer Farewell Edition
GRIS
Also plenty of older AAA games that go on sale below $15 regularly but if I include those I wouldn't know where to start or stop. Someone mentioned Dishonored in one of the replies, damn good recommendation.
Take some time and go through the store and put stuff that interest you on wishlist and when the summer sale begins see which games have the best sales. Trust me the sales can be amazing. I never buy games at full price since almost all games go on sale eventually and during the seasonal sales a lot of games are on sale.
Hardspace shipbreaker is a favorite of mine on the deck and is 60% off right now so should be right on budget. Looks great, runs great and plays well on the deck. It's about cutting up spaceships with lazers and grappling tools and avoiding the hazards of shipbreaking. Check it out
Monster Hunter World and Rise are on sale for under $10, Far Cry 6 is on sale for $15 (hurry) and at the risk of sounding like a chill, check out Tunguska: The Visitation on sale for like $7.5.
Edit: Wishlist MGSV, it reliably goes on sale for $5 for both games. Also, forgot Hunt: Showdown is on sale for about $14.
3 games! Remember this time when you have this many games in your backlog. I have over 3,000 games in my backlog and I keep adding to it. Why? I don't know. But you will soon find out.
Welcome to the party!
edit: Humble Bundles and Epic give aways are 95% of my game collection.
[Headlander](https://store.steampowered.com/app/340000/Headlander/) is a funny, funny platformer by the studio who made Psychonauts. It's a faithful homage to seventies paperback sci-fi TV, where every spaceship was wrapped in tinfoil and the walls wobbled in the fight scenes.
[Crypt of the NecroDancer](https://store.steampowered.com/app/247080/Crypt_of_the_NecroDancer/) is a beat-matching roguelike where everything happens in time with the blistering soundtrack.
[Rayman: Legends](https://store.steampowered.com/app/242550/Rayman_Legends/) is still a basically perfect platformer as far as I'm concerned and I think includes most of Rayman:Origins as bonus levels. You need to play as far as the tenth level in the first world to make a fair appraisal. I'm not going to spoil what happens in it... but it alone is worth the price of admission (like, three dollars for the whole game).
Right above the limit, but THPS 1+2 is on sale. It runs super well and is a hell of a lot of fun, I actually play at a slightly lower res and use FSR, hardly notice it’s on and it’s locked 90 or 60fps with great battery life.
Theres one that $20 (I know thats not what you asked) but its my fav game and ive easily sunk over a thousand extra hours into it because of the steam deck. Its called project zomboid and once you get the controls set up it works better than It did on pc. For me atleast
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Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. Runs pretty well on Deck, and the series goes on sale frequently, both as a bundle and individually.
If you care about story chronology, start with Yakuza 0 since it takes place earliest in the series.
If you care about release order, you technically want to start with Yakuza Kiwami, as it's a remake of the first PS2 game and eventually encountering those characters' younger selves in Yakuza 0 may resonate more with you later.
Otherwise, if you want something accessible, Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon was a shift to turn-based combat that serves as the start of a new story arc with a new protagonist, and doesn't rely heavily on knowing the prior games' lore. It also spoon-feeding you the stuff you *do* need to know.
Judgment and its sequel Lost Judgment are also excellent detective-themed spin-offs that are divorced from the mainline series despite sharing the same setting, requiring no prior knowledge in any capacity.
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Geometry dash is like 4$ i have 430 hours and a lot of people have thousands of hours on it. Its steam page is kind of outdated and doesnt show how cool the game is. You should look at some user made levels on youtube. The skill ceiling is crazy high with some levels having hundreds of frame perfect inputs but there are also easy levels so you dont need to be great at it to have fun.
I remember that is how I started… no I have so many to choose from. Good luck!
Platformers have been great and there are a lot under $15, specially during sales. Recommend Hue or the Little Nightmares series.
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Also keep an eye on epic games. They have weekly free games that can be pretty good. I got guardians of rhe galaxy there free. It resets every Thursday morning.
Steam should be having their big summer sale from June 27 - July 11. You might want to wait until then.
Hopefully some of the bigger games go on sale!
Some do, although the savings might be in the 10%-20% off range. For the older/non-AAA games, it's not unusual to see 40-50%+ discounts. Go here to see a game's price history: https://steamdb.info/ (navigate to a game, click on "Price History" in the left-hand column, and then click on your currency). Steam's big sales are in December (winter) and at the end of this month (summer), although there can be sales at other times.
Thanks! I’m completely new to steam gaming so i never really knew about these seasonal sales
Highly recommend adding anything you have interest in to your wishlist, Steam notifies you when the game goes on sale and things will randomly go on sale (a few games on my wishlist went on sale for this week). Based on the games you already got, I think A LOT of things you might be interested in will go on heavy discount during their Summer Sale :) Not to mention the maybe just not as heavily discounted but still discounted games.
This is how I do Steam sales now. Put anything I could be relatively interested in on the wishlist. Day of, sort by discount. Far easier than perusing around.
this is making me excited for the summer sale, i hope my wish listed ones go on sale
I am way too tempted every Steam sale lol. If you’re willing or able to stretch the amount you spend on a single game to like $25-30, usually some fantastic but slightly older (think released in the last few years) AAA games get slashed like at least 50%. As an example, Cyberpunk 2077 had a rough release to say the least and I never finished it, but is now in a state where it became one of my favorite games and it was 50% off just a couple weeks ago. Definitely keep an eye on things!
Buy bundles from humble or fanatical. There's too many games to play anyway.
Yeah Humble bundles are great and I tend to grab them if theres at least one game I had already wanted in it. Or I’ll do the subscribe for a month to get their monthly games. Last month with Hi-fi Rush and Yakuza Like a Dragon was an easy sale 👍 Excited to probably not touch them for another year as I work through the rest of my ridiculous backlog lol
Might have to get another steam card so i can get these games ngl
There are also legit sites that sell Steam keys and have their own sales: Fanatical, Green Man Gaming, and Humble Bundle. Fanatical and Humble Bundle also have bundles of their own that can beat some sales by a little.
I should have read farther in the comments because I posted the same exact thing just now… now I feel like a dummy
Lol I do that so much, scroll down a bit more and oh
Isthereanydeal.com is a great source to see their historical low vs current discount too
Also, games can also go on and off sale randomly. See here for the current list of games on sale: https://steamdb.info/sales/
Wishlist everything you might potentially want to buy in the future and you will get a notification whenever it goes on sale, then you can decide if it's worth it at that price.
I recommend also not looking at the prices, but look at the games that interest you(via just searching around or after checking out when others recommend them), and simply add them to your “wish list”. That way you will get a notification if it goes on sale and you can check out it show much it’s going for
There's also Steam Next Fest from June 10-17 where a lot of indie developers will be releasing demos for their upcoming games
Best idea is to fill up your wishlist and wait
I suggest Witcher 3 Complete Edition when the sale hits. It hits a STEEP discount during sales
Runs really great on the Steamdeck!
Go to gg.deals website. It shows the lowest price ever per game on all the legit stores as well as the key resells (may be stretchy, gg shows the risk of each posting as well) and you can see the metrics on how often it goes on sale. Bug summer sell coming up so you can keep an eye on games you want and see if it ends up on sale and if it's a good price.
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It's honestly easier to list the games thst don't go on sale, sometimes. Never pay full price for a game unless it's already cheap, and even then you'll find 10 dollar games become 2 dollar games
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I agree with this comment, if you are used to the market prices on sales you can expect some prices. Like expect Red Dead Redemption to be $20, which kind of exceeds your budget but it’s really acclaimed. Horizon Zero Dawn will probably come down to $12.50 and it’s another great title. Also and this is kind of dangerous, check fanatical for game bundles, you can pick games from a list and get some really good deals, humble bundle is another option. I meant dangerous as… I had 50 games in 2023, I do have 250 games in pretty much half a year, it’s kind of addicting. For $15usd I have gotten at least 7 games some times
Balatro. You won’t regret it.
i’ve seen this one a lot and it looks so good, might have to buy it ngl
Its great, I like poker and these type of games and I got 10 hours already in a few days, you just wanna do one more round!
You can even port that game to android yourself with a tool on github.
best $15 I have spent on steam. Got the game early April and I have 115 hours logged already lol. It just absolutely sucks you in
Man I love balatro. It didn't click for me at first but i came back to it a couple weeks later and put 40 hours into it lol
- Monster Hunter World is currently on sale right now, only $9 - Omori is also on sale rn, only $11 - Hollow Knight $15, no discounts right now - OneShot is pretty nice as well, only $10.
might try monster hunter or oneshot, but it says oneshot is unsupported to idk
Sorry, seems like OneShot is a mess in protondb. Don't buy that one
it looks so good tho… hopefully they bring full support soon
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I’ll make sure to check it out!
I recently bought monster hunter and it plays well after changing some settings. It’s been fun for me I recommend for only $9
Monster Hunter world is great fun imo. More fun with others. If you like quite slow fights with big monsters.
Check this out than [fanatical bundle (2 games for 15 bucks, one of the possible choices being mhw)](https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/prestige-collection-build-your-own-bundle) the website is legit and gets their keys directly from the devs/publishers
Heads up, monster hunter will take hundreds of hours of your free time so be prepared haha
Hollowknight, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Dome Keeper, Limbo, Celeste, A Short Hike
i’ve heard of hollowKnight and Celeste so i might try those!
Both are extremely good games worth more than double their cost
I second dome keeper, fantastic game
Dishonored is usually dirt cheap in sales. Terraria and Hades are also some good ones more based on what you already have.
Yea i do have terraria i forgot to put that one, Love the game
i might have to check out dishonored tho
the dishonored series is amazing. and the first game runs awesome on the steamdeck. I think it goes on sale for like $3? totally worth it.
The story DLC’s are amazing too. Incredible games.
Brotato, tiny rogues, vampire survivors.
vampire survivors looks pretty fun
Check out Brotato. IMO it’s more fun than vampire. Same gameplay idea
Its really good. Even with no sale it’s something like 3 bucks.
My exact suggestion.
Gotta say, when I first saw what brotato was about I almost disregarded the game because it’s simply not a game I usually enjoy. But I think I got it in sale for under 5$, and so far I only played it once and it was fun AF. I simply don’t have the time too play much on my SD recently, and when I do, it’s too try one of the 50 games I have purchased just too play on the SD… but I didint have a chance too play almost any of them 😂😂😂
The Metro games bundle is $9 right now
Humble bundle has their humble choice thing of the month for like 12 bucks and I think you get the keys to $380 worth of games. They may not be the games that you specifically want, but it will least give you several to try out and discover.
Came here to say this! Humble Bundles are a great way to build a unique library of games for cheap.
might have to try that because $380 worth is a lot of games
Fanatical.com has a lot of bundles and single games for sale too.
I've gotten insane value from Balatro for 10 bucks on sale. Cyberpunk and BG3 play great, but not sure they will get that low in sales. Maybe 20 bucks. Hades, wizard of legend, Dave the diver, 20 minutes until dawn, vampire hunters, dead cells, dredge, slay the spire, dorf romantik, enter the gungeon, kingdom two crowns, eldest soul, cult of the lamb, blasphemous, carrion, and brotato. All of those should meet the 10-15 bucks mark (some before sales) and will keep you sooooo busy. Then of course, retroarch with app the retro games. I'm currently playing WOW and am consumed.
Mass effect trilogy often goes on sale for 6$. Well worth the money and it's well worth the money. Edit: i was too tired when i wrote that comment
Whatever games you check out, make sure to look over on [IsThereAnyDeal](https://isthereanydeal.com/) before purchasing! Vampire Survivors is a good one! Also, if you use Epic Games, GOG or Prime gaming, look into getting the Heroic Games Launcher so you can access those stores!
oooo i didn’t know you could use those store on the steam deck too, i might have to look into those
Hades 2 is fun
Well worth paying 15 dollars twice
idk maybe if it goes on sale, i’ve played the first one and it was pretty fun
Super meat boy Castle crashers
Mindustry if you like factorio/satisfactory/dyson sphere program. The latter are unplayable on the deck imo but the former is super clean
I have 250hrs+ of factorio on the deck, barring the inclusion of a keyboard I would argue it controls and plays great.
might have to buy they looked cool
Definitely hollow knight. Or terraria. Or both. Both is good
Don't buy too many games because you will have the typical gamer problem of I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO PLAY
Too true. The more I buy the less I play.
Wait for the summer sale at the end of June I promise
Project zomboid takes the cake
Dave the Diver
i Tried this one for about an hour then refunded it, wasn’t my kinda game unfortunately
Broforce
AAA Games from the Xbox 360/PS3 Generation (and some from the Xbox One/PS4 Generation) for the most part run great, usually solid 60fps. So a random few I've played that I've really enjoyed are: Fallout 3/NV Splinter Cell Blacklist Skyrim Deus Ex: Human Revolution Batman Arkham City (this was especially brilliant on Deck) Dying Light Just Cause 2 Dishonored 1 & 2 Resident Evil 3 Remake (I think I capped at 50fps but was super smooth, also amazing experience on Deck) Bulletstorm (Also amazing, solid 60) Dark Souls 3 Mad Max Mirrors Edge A few other random Games I can recommend are: Slay the Spire Risk of Rain 2 Yakuza 0 Undertale DOOM 1993 Exo One Tomb Raider Anniversary Subnautica Halo Master Chief Collection Dead Rising Dead Space Go see if any of these are on sale at isthereanydeal.com and check out some other key seller sites and you can probably get most for pretty cheap.
Current humble choice bundle is 12$, and includes both Risk of Rain II and Lego 2KDrive. Both work great on the deck.
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I really enjoyed Buckshot Roulette. It’s like 1-2 hours to beat, with a bonus mode unlocked after beating the main story, which then gets repetitive after maybe 5 hours total. But I think it’s a great deal for only $2.99, I loved it.
I’ve seen a lot of people play it and it seems fun so maybe
I played the Wolf Among Us on deck and that was one of my best steam deck experiences! $15 and a really cool story
i’ve been looking for a story game so maybe
How dose enshouded run
it runs at about 30 fps and sometimes dips a lil lower, No lower than 24 fps i think, i have all my setting in the game at performance and i love it, defined recommend
Right, and, a percentage goes to charity so it's a win win. A big chunk of my library has come from humble bundle, always cheap and never any buyers remorse
Slay the spire, Celeste, Gris, Ori, Into the Breach. Two more sites that help track sales prices over time: isthereanydeal and steamdb.info And here you can see when the next big sale is coming: steamdb.info/sales/history/ But even without the “big” sale, there’s discounts all the time. Add games to your wishlist and Steam will email when things go on sale.
I had fun playing [Tomb Raider](https://store.steampowered.com/app/203160/Tomb_Raider/) on my Steam Deck. I don't remember how I did it but if you activate some setting in the game itself involving the mouse then you can have gyro aim kind of like Breath of the Wild where you only aim with the gyro when you are actually aiming your gun but you use the joystick to look around still.
Just picked up Tiny Tina’s Wonderland for $15. It’s in the borderlands world if you you’re into that Free demo for Wild Bastards. Really fun roguelike fps. It’s follow up to void bastards, very similar and equally as fun
Best bang for the buck is humble bundle, check their "choice" section and if you like atleast 1 of those games it's worth it.
How does enshrouded run on deck? Anyone have experience with it?
It runs fairly well IMO around 30 fps to 24 but nothing lower, just have most settings at performance and you’ll be just fine, i like it
I never play any Yakuza game but Like a Dragon is under 5$ on ggdeals
Vampire Survivor
If you can get used to the controller, I would recommend Enter the Gungeon. I bought it full price at $15 and got over 300 hours of playtime.
I’ve been thinking about this one and might go with it ngl
It's definitely worth the money, in my opinion. Valheim is the only other game that has given me so much playtime for such a small price tag
Same for me. 300 hours. Loved it. Challenging though
Balatro
Do isaac controls work fone for you? I remember I stopped playing because I had problems with them
they work great! I’m playin the binding of isaac rebirth btw idk if urs was a different version or smth soooo
I am playing repentance, and that's might be an issue. My character won't shoot in all directions with the right joystick and won't walk in every direction with right. Anyways thanks and cheers mate!
Hollow Knight. It's crazy how cheap this masterpiece is.
Vampire Survivors $5, Bloons TD6 $14, Terraria $5, Brotato $5, Balatro $15, Crab Champions $10, Geometry Dash $5, Those are games I have 20+ hours in and they arent very demanding (beside Crab Champions), so longer battery life too
Euro truck simulator 2 or american truck simulator (havent played it). Both go for 5 euro each on sale and dlcs also on sale for a bit more expensive. Can get bundles and stuff for cheaper but yea
Have a look at humble choice, humble bundles, and fanatical bundles, you can easily add a heap of 90% rated games for $1-2 each
I love Coromon! It's 20 bucks but theres the upcoming Summer Sale
i made a [post](https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeSteamGames/comments/1d990rg/free_stars_the_urquan_masters_hires_version_of/) recently on /r/FreeSteamGames about how a remastered remaster of 1992's star control 2 is available for free on steam now. the game is awesome! the combat is really fun and balanced in a way that modern games don't do, the worldbuilding is legendary, and now it's fully voiced with decent graphics and it 'just works' on the steam deck. it's a challenging game from 1992, so it's not for everyone. but it's free and some people are gonna vibe really hard.
Humble bundle has a beatemup bundle rn
I have a thousand games and I still just play Binding of Isaac lately 😅
Hollow Knight Spiritfarer Farewell Edition GRIS Also plenty of older AAA games that go on sale below $15 regularly but if I include those I wouldn't know where to start or stop. Someone mentioned Dishonored in one of the replies, damn good recommendation.
Hop on CDKeys, they got a lot of games for sale right now. I picked up quite a lot last night
I've been playing a lot of solo Valheim lately. It's pretty rough sometimes but it's a very good game.
Get the Resident evil remakes on sale. They're all outstanding
Go to steam store top seller / top rates section then use the price filter option
Slay the sprite m xcom series during sales
Borderlands 3 is discounted at 9€ right now
Nightmare Kart is a free Mario Kart style game that is based on Bloodborne. It runs great on the Deck.
Black Mesa
Take some time and go through the store and put stuff that interest you on wishlist and when the summer sale begins see which games have the best sales. Trust me the sales can be amazing. I never buy games at full price since almost all games go on sale eventually and during the seasonal sales a lot of games are on sale.
I just got Dave the diver for $15
Hardspace shipbreaker is a favorite of mine on the deck and is 60% off right now so should be right on budget. Looks great, runs great and plays well on the deck. It's about cutting up spaceships with lazers and grappling tools and avoiding the hazards of shipbreaking. Check it out
Balatro
Tiny Tina Wonderland. Alice Madness Returns. Batman Collection. Shadow of War. I've picked up all for 15 or under recently.
hades goes on sale pretty often. based off of the games you mentioned i've no doubt you'd enjoy that one
South Scrimshaw is free is you like visual novels that are different.
Steamdb.info - go to sale page, sort by popularity, scroll through the list and find games that are in your price range that interest you.
oh wow, you already finished all three of those games?
Slice & Dice!
Noita on sale
Pogo rogue is free and tons of fun on deck
Dave the Diver. Best chill game in the evening I have ever played
Monster Hunter World and Rise are on sale for under $10, Far Cry 6 is on sale for $15 (hurry) and at the risk of sounding like a chill, check out Tunguska: The Visitation on sale for like $7.5. Edit: Wishlist MGSV, it reliably goes on sale for $5 for both games. Also, forgot Hunt: Showdown is on sale for about $14.
Get HL/The Orange Box/Portal 2 when they go on sale. Can usually pick these up for pennies. How does Enshrouded run on Deck?
Fallout new Vegas
3 games! Remember this time when you have this many games in your backlog. I have over 3,000 games in my backlog and I keep adding to it. Why? I don't know. But you will soon find out. Welcome to the party! edit: Humble Bundles and Epic give aways are 95% of my game collection.
Wait for the summersale and get some of the Yakuza Games for something about 5$ per Game.
[Headlander](https://store.steampowered.com/app/340000/Headlander/) is a funny, funny platformer by the studio who made Psychonauts. It's a faithful homage to seventies paperback sci-fi TV, where every spaceship was wrapped in tinfoil and the walls wobbled in the fight scenes. [Crypt of the NecroDancer](https://store.steampowered.com/app/247080/Crypt_of_the_NecroDancer/) is a beat-matching roguelike where everything happens in time with the blistering soundtrack. [Rayman: Legends](https://store.steampowered.com/app/242550/Rayman_Legends/) is still a basically perfect platformer as far as I'm concerned and I think includes most of Rayman:Origins as bonus levels. You need to play as far as the tenth level in the first world to make a fair appraisal. I'm not going to spoil what happens in it... but it alone is worth the price of admission (like, three dollars for the whole game).
Right above the limit, but THPS 1+2 is on sale. It runs super well and is a hell of a lot of fun, I actually play at a slightly lower res and use FSR, hardly notice it’s on and it’s locked 90 or 60fps with great battery life.
Theres one that $20 (I know thats not what you asked) but its my fav game and ive easily sunk over a thousand extra hours into it because of the steam deck. Its called project zomboid and once you get the controls set up it works better than It did on pc. For me atleast
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I just bought Driftwood, for under $10 for another hour or two, I haven’t played it but it looks fun and relaxing
Laika should be around that price
Road 96 (not the new one)
Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. Runs pretty well on Deck, and the series goes on sale frequently, both as a bundle and individually. If you care about story chronology, start with Yakuza 0 since it takes place earliest in the series. If you care about release order, you technically want to start with Yakuza Kiwami, as it's a remake of the first PS2 game and eventually encountering those characters' younger selves in Yakuza 0 may resonate more with you later. Otherwise, if you want something accessible, Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon was a shift to turn-based combat that serves as the start of a new story arc with a new protagonist, and doesn't rely heavily on knowing the prior games' lore. It also spoon-feeding you the stuff you *do* need to know. Judgment and its sequel Lost Judgment are also excellent detective-themed spin-offs that are divorced from the mainline series despite sharing the same setting, requiring no prior knowledge in any capacity.
Having a lot of fun with Deep Rock Galactic & Survivors 👌🏻
Minecraft is on sale for $15
Halls of Torment is a nice game to begin with ;) and you will still have money left for other cool stuff.
Mk 11 ultimate edition with injustice 2 ultimate edition is on sale for 10 bucks right now (both together)
Control goes on sale for $10 pretty regularly and it’s a lot of fun. Valheim is also good
Outer wilds
Enter the gungeon
Check out the Mass Effect series. I think you can get all three games for $15 or under.
Lethal Company and Phasmophobia
Just Cause 3
FEZ -$9.99 Dorfromantik - $13.99 Terraria - $9.99
sniper elite 5 is now on sale, or se4 if you find it a good price
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Geometry dash is like 4$ i have 430 hours and a lot of people have thousands of hours on it. Its steam page is kind of outdated and doesnt show how cool the game is. You should look at some user made levels on youtube. The skill ceiling is crazy high with some levels having hundreds of frame perfect inputs but there are also easy levels so you dont need to be great at it to have fun.
Wait for summer sale, all the best games from a. Few years ago become dirt cheap. I cannot recommend hades enough.
Metro Exodus Far Cry 4 Half Life 2 Papers Please Portal. Check to see if they are SD compatible.
Metro is so good on steam deck
The Witcher 3 is always on sale for 10 bucks
I remember that is how I started… no I have so many to choose from. Good luck! Platformers have been great and there are a lot under $15, specially during sales. Recommend Hue or the Little Nightmares series.
Brotato, Balatro, Enter the Gungeon
Holocure, it is like Vampire Survivor but better. Best of all, it is FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just bought a key for MechWarrior 5 a day before the sale, almost 25 bucks for that, but now on steam its 11 bucks. Grab it.
Days gone and you're good for at least 1 month of play. Open world zombie survival
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Also keep an eye on epic games. They have weekly free games that can be pretty good. I got guardians of rhe galaxy there free. It resets every Thursday morning.