I'd recommend flickstick +gyro for fps games, there's a definite learning curve but it's the only way I've found that is at all comparable to playing with a mouse.
Decky loader is a plugin store/manager for Steam Deck. Let's you retheme steam deck ui, change startup animations, gives advanced performance controls, and a ton of other stuff. I'd definitely consider it mandatory for getting the best steam deck experience.
My favorite would probably be No Man's Sky. I had known about it for years but never tried it until this year. I was completely unprepared for how much I would get into it, and how much time I would spend in it. It worked so well on deck too, being able to put the deck to sleep, and then wake it up hours later to collect the harvest from a plant or mineral extractor was very convenient.
My most disappointing was Diablo 4. I was really glad to see it come to steam and thought I would love it, but the always online requirement and how they handled disconnects really killed my enjoyment of the game. One of my favorite things with the Deck is being able to suspend my game anytime and pick it up later, but suspending the deck with D4 means it will disconnect and I'll have to restart the game when I return. It wouldn't be so bad if I just had to wait on the game to reconnect or something similar. It's also a game where you can't pause, and setting it down with the game running always seems to result in my character getting killed by some monster that wandered too close and agro'd. Some other games with always online requirements (like Honkai Star Rail) handle internet much better, I can suspend at anytime and just have to wait for it to reconnect when I wake it back up.
This won't help with this game, but there's a decky extension called steamback that keeps backup saves of your games.
It automatically makes a backup of your save data everytime you start a game, and keeps a few copies so you can revert if something happens.
I played 1 and 2 back in the day, but there was a lot of complaining about the ending of 3 so I decided to wait for a good sale, and ultimately never got it until now.
Judging from these comments, I'm the only one who actually likes it. I find it easier to control music playback/etc while using maps and driving.
Full Metal Furies is great, in addition to solid coop or solo gameplay, it also has some absolutely crazy puzzles in it. Some even enter ARG territory similar to games like Inscryption. I'm always amazed that I don't hear more people talking about it.
It can be done, but it's complicated. You either need to mount the read only system as writeable (which will be overwritten with each update), or use a system like rwfus to install packages to user space instead.
You can also change your entire OS to Bazzite, which will keep the benefits of SteamOS (console like experience, suspend mid game, decky loader, etc) but has separate images for other DE's like Gnome. I think the underlying OS is still immutable though, so if they don't offer i3/awesome images I don't think it'll be easy to install them.
Thanks for doing this!
I would personally be interested in Spider man remastered.
As for a game I played recently and loved, I've been playing Xenotilt and Demon's Tilt and they're both amazing pinball games. I loved Metroid Prime Pinball as a kid and these are the first pinball games that really capture that same appeal.
That's a perfectly reasonable stance, and fully applies to me as well.
Unfortunately that didn't stop me from buying more games that I'll struggle to find time to play.
I've used previous dlss to fsr2 mods, and I applied the registry edits through protontricks/winetricks.
So I'm sure this will work the same.
Do you have power tools installed? Make sure you don't have SMT disabled, that will cause some games to crash on launch.
I've also known people to get results like that from undervolting. Unfortunately it's possible it that you could have borderline passable hardware that has the same instability people get from undervolting at default values.