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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/flwwhtrbt on 2024-10-09 03:41:23+00:00.
So, I've done this before. For a little while I was posting these...curated posts on different sub-reddits. I've done them for r/SteamDeckHQ and r/JunkStore before, but considering the recent (and welcomed) changes, I thought I might try sharing something here too!
My passion, despite being way too young for it, are the old-old gaming blogs of the middle to late '000's. And the websites around in the same time - before the articles were all clickbait, and when these articles felt personal.
So, as a heads-up, all of this is my own personal opinion, my own takes on what is happening, and the games I'm most interested in sharing! I like to focus on the GOG and Epic Games' side of Steam Deck gaming, as they are far less covered than Steam! Let's get started!
GOG/Epic Games on the Steam Deck:
If you're not aware (I'm sure 99% of us here are, but there are always people who miss these things!), we as gamers are regularly given free PC games, in the form of codes to redeem. Epic Games gives one or two games per week (we've been lucky the last 6 weeks or so, with a solid two-per-week!), and the GOG codes come from an active Amazon Prime subscription - the have Prime Gaming, which gives a lot of GOG codes.
All you need is a Prime account for the GOG codes (given each week) and a Epic Games account for their weekly games!
GOG NEWS:
Alien: Isolation
The world's best (okay, my fav at least!) sci-fi horror game, Alien: Isolation has turned 10 years old! My fav little fact about when Creative Assembly got the okay to make this game, they got unprecedented access to all of the behind-the-scenes material of the lore of Alien.
They were given access to 20th Century Fox's archives - "around three terabytes of behind-the-scenes-archive material from the first movie", which allowed them to craft what I like to think of as the most accurate depiction of a film's world in a game.
The result of all that studying?
Perfection. Retro-futurist perfection. And oh-so-very authentic.
Alien: Isolation recently surged back up the charts thanks to the excellent Alien Romulus. It has the benefit of playing at the highest settings and looking fantastic (did you know the agreed best version of the game is actually the Android port? For performance and graphics? I found that odd)
It's also currently on steep sale on GOG and Steam. On GOG it is 7,49 Euro, and 7,01 on Steam for the Alien: Isolation Collection which includes:
- Alien: Isolation (full game)
- Alien: Isolation Corporate Lockdown (the first expansion pack, introducing 3 new maps for Survivor Mode)
- Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable (play as the original crew of the Nostromo - play as Dallas, Ripley or Parker, and find a way to isolate the Alien hunting them)
- Alien: Isolation - Last Survivor (as Ellen Ripley, it's up to you to complete the 'last mission' on board the Nostromo...get to the escape shuttle!)
- Alien: Isolation - Lost Contact (more for the 'salvage mode'
- Alien: Isolation - Safe Haven (salvage mode)
- Alien: Isolation - Trauma (more maps for salvage mode)
- Alien: Isolation - The Trigger ('Can you make Sevastopol safe? You've been given a box of explosives and the locations to set them. All you need to do now is pull the trigger...and stay alive')
It's hard to argue with that value. If you're a super-scardey-cat like I am? Use a mod to change the behavior of the Alien. I know, it's negating the entire point of the whole game, but...I just kinda liked exploring the phsyical world they built - it made me feel like I got to live inside the sets of the first film ❤️
Top Wishlisted Games on GOG - For the Previous 30 Days
- Resident Evil 2
- Resident Evil Bundle (newly re-released/re-made original PC games)
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Starcom: Unknown Spaces
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC
- Space Marine
- Hollow Body
- Fallout 4 (Game of The Year ed.)
- Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars Reforged
Why are there a top 9? And not a top 10? That...I really do not know.
Horizon Zero Dawn - the GOG version and DRM
I'm sure you all spotted this recently but it is note-worthy. In a sad move, Sony has decided that when they release the new remaster of this ancient game (2017 -__-) they will not allow you to buy the old version of HZD
What is the difference? Well, Sony now requires a PSN account creation and sign-in, in order to play. So the new game version (remastered, and their also give you a non-remastered version with it - though that too requires the PSN) gives you no option.
Horizon's previous version was delisted from Epic, and Steam, but the one store-front you can still access the non-PSN-y version?
That's right, it's GOG. Still there, still up, and still unaffected. This is clearly all timed to coincide with the LEGO Horizon game's launch in a few weeks' time, and...just sad and underhanded. This PSN requirement means it is not playable for just over 180 countries around the world.
Another sad reminder on how gaming in 2024 is decidedly not consumer-friendly
Buy it from GOG, support the one platform which is consumer-friendly and dedicates their platform to not having DRM of any kind.
GOG Exclusives:
It might surprise you to know (or maybe not?) that there are games, or more specifically games and then specific versions of those games, which are only available on GOG.
I spent some time buying, downloading, installing and testing at least some of them, but the ones which interested me boiled down to:
- SWAT 4: Gold Edition
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Stranglehold
- The Saboteur
- Warhammer 40,000: Fire Team
- Silent Hill 4: The Room
- And more besides
I'm going to continue to try them out, and maybe next week (if there's enough interest in this one?) then I can come back with screenshots and settings and update on what works best to play them on the Steam Deck :)
GOG Games which have been updated (or released) in the last 48 hours
GOG Game Updates in the last 24 hours:
This won't be too detail-rich, but I thought I might put up a few games which caught my eye on being updated today.
- Resident Evil 3 (2024) - updated!
- Kynseed (2018) - updated!
- RoboCop: Rogue City (2023) - updated!
- TerraScape (2023) - updated!
- Coromon (2020) - updated!
- Wildermyth (2019) - updated!
- Endless Sky (2015!!!) - updated!
- Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp (2020) - updated!
- Dead Season (2024) - a new released game!
- The Blackwell Legacy (2006) - updated-ish
GOG Sales:
The GOG Autumn Sale just wrapped up a few hours ago, with a lot of games being given their highest discount ever on GOG (I picked up Firewatch!)
My pick of the lot of them I see still on sale though (as there is still games on steep discount!) is Breathedge (sitting at 'very positive' on Steam for All Reviews - 12,742).
"Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage."
In the opening of this one I plugged a gap in my broken ship's wall with a chicken, then plugged the chicken's butt with a wad of chewing gum. To create an air-tight seal. So...it's a different one.
Last Month's Free Games:
And while they're no longer available, if you are new to the free games you can claim, I have a handy list here of the ones Prime Gaming and Epic Games made available, and where you got the codes from:
OTHER NEWS:
A user on Mastodon has created and shared this (and given me permission to share it further, with his name being credited!)
If you're a Doctor Who, and Steam Deck fan, they made this desktop wallpaper for you!:
Rob Vincent 🎙️ @[Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town](mailto:Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town)
I made an appropriate desktop image for a certain handheld computer of mine which runs a certain operating system. (Art by John Ridgway from Issue 6 of the #DoctorWho comic "Prisoners of Time.")
EmuDeck:
EmuDeck has had a bit of trouble before in the past with their updates. Earlier this year when Nintendo took down Yuzu (or at least...stopped it being developed, it very much still functions perfectly fine even now - even with newer titles) EmuDeck's subsequent update made many versions cras...
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