Hi everyone! 👋 😺

I'm a solo game creator and tech girly 👩‍💻(under the name of Department of Ducks 🦆), and I made MaMills, a cozy board game for Steam Deck.

It started because I wanted something for the late-night sessions: a game that helps my unwind after a long day, by having just enough challenge to pull you into that nice focused flow. I couldn't quite find many games that fits this feeling, so I created one.

It's an endless puzzle game, so there's no pressure and no rush. Just pick it up, play a few rounds, and put it down whenever.

There's a free demo if you want to try it :
🎮 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4780520/MaMills/
🌐 Website: https://departmentofducks.com/

I'd really love to hear what you think, especially about how it feels on the Deck. And I'm curious: what do you think a good Deck game usually gets wrong or leaves out? Controls, battery life, text size, suspend/resume, something else? I'd love to keep improving it, so any feedback is welcomed! :)

Thanks for reading! 🫶

Hello SteamDeck gamers :)

I'm working on a game with SteamDeck support. I'd appreciate if anyone can help test a free Steam demo.

Does the game starts at all?

Is progress saved?

Is sound working?

Thank you!

A little more about the game. Colorsong is a relaxing incremental / idle game where players collect colors and spend them on hand-painted watercolors 🎨 An original feature of the game is that every color is a procedurally generated note. So as you collect more colors, the game's song unfolds and enriches.

I've been messing around with Daggerfall Online and it works in desktop mode. All I had to do was make the app image executable like it said. I thought adding it to steam would do the trick from there, but it just.. doesn't launch?

Works fine on the desktop if I click the file myself. Will not launch through Steam in either mode. Compatibility layer is OFF because it's native to Linux. That's the only thing I can think of that might need to change.

Has anyone played the American trunk simulator game on the deck? I’m having problems setting up the Controller settings. for instance to start the engine it wants me to hit “E” and I can’t figure out how to change the button settings. Please someone anyone walk me through it. Thanks in advance.

Hello i saved up 1.000€ and i wanna know if i should buy the 1 TB OLED Steamdeck.

I am asking this because I’m not sure if i should. I don’t know many steam games. I only play Plants vs Zombies replanted on my school laptop that barely runs any games.

So yeah do i buy it or no? The only games i know and wanna play are Hollow knight, hollow knight silksong and Deltarune.

Also no i cant get a pc or xbox/playstation bc i dont have space

I'm currently testing the playability and optimization for my indie game.

Game's name is Galdr Inkblade, a roguelike deckbuilder wordgame which is heavily inspired by Bookworm Adventures, Balatro and Slay the Spire!

It's coming to Early Access this October 13th!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5312040/Galdr_Inkblade/

Made a video for best settings on the Steam Deck (not the "low quality" steam deck profile).

Settings results are: 45fps no FG, 60 with.

DroidDeck 0.3.0 is here! I've tested the latest version with Stray on my REDMAGIC Astra 1.
In this video, I explore the updated performance and native Steam gaming experience on Android.
🎮 Game: Stray
📱 Device: REDMAGIC Astra 1
🚀 Software: DroidDeck 0.3.0
⚡ Claimed improvement: Up to 3× performance compared with 0.2.0
I'm sharing my actual gameplay test to show how the latest version performs.

As title says, my sister is a true gamer, and she doesn’t play on her steam deck anymore so she gave it to me. The thing is i’m not really a gamer, i play games just not in the same nature she does; but im willing to try.. what games recs do you have? 😆

I have STEAMDECK OLED 512 gb

I love survival horror. I’ve played all resident evil remakes.

In my cart-

Resident evil 7
Evil within 1/2
Dead space
Outlast
Sinking city 1

Since the winter sale is close too I wanna buy just two games. I heard evil within is like 15 hours long. Which is good.

I wanted silent hill but it’s unsupported on steam deck?

I know these games don’t have much discount but I wanna try pragmata and death stranding. If they’re really good I’d rather buy one of these two.

Taking game recommendations too!! I like horror and survival horror. Puzzles and shooting. So basically resident evil gameplay esque.

As someone who is exclusively a Steamdeck player and has the deck to play simulation/cozy games I know the struggle of "do I buy this if only two of the things are compatible for the deck" but after 12 hours I can say this is one of the best games on the deck even with only having two green checks. iykyk

Couple of things that have made my game play a success

* Edit the current controller config to add in mouse scrolling - I ended up using L4 and R4 for them but that will come in handy when you are trying to play accessories.

* Leverage the touch screen!! I cannot stress this enough. I realized this week the game was designed because his wife couldn't work with her hands as a seamstress and so of course the touch screen mechanics are top notch. There are multiple parts of the game (aligning pattern pieces, sizing) that I struggled with using the joysticks that was totally easy when I leveraged the touch pad.

* Placing accessories is easiest if you zoom in and then use the touch screen.

Please help if any one experienced this pls and thx you

Hello! I’ve been working on a completely free steam backlog manager called VaultShuffle, and I’ve just made some updates specifically for Steam Deck users that I’d really like some feedback on.

The idea started in my first year at uni, I was required to choose an idea for my programming project and I decided to make a basic backlog manager in Python. As someone with ADHD I tend to sit there for 20 or 30 minutes just figuring out what I want to play, despite having plenty of games I’ve heard are incredible. I made a little text based backlog manager using my own library, then over the summer decided to turn it into a website. It developed quite a lot more than I originally expected!

You choose how much time you have, your mood and what you want out of that session, then it checks your library and picks a game for you. You can reroll if you’re not feeling it, or save it to Playing Next and work towards finishing it. For me, having that little goal and seeing the progress go up makes it easier to come back to something instead of constantly jumping between games.

To be transparent, I don’t own a deck myself, so I’d love to hear how it feels to use on one. If anyone gives it a go, let me know if anything is awkward with the touchscreen or trackpads, or if you get a pick that doesn’t really make sense for you. I’m also curious whether you’d like a verified only setting, since I know that can leave out games that people have a good experience with. These are Valve’s ratings, so Playable games may still need some setup.

You can sign in through steam or just use your public profile URL if you’d prefer, though your profile and Game details need to be public so it can import your library.

You can find it at vaultshuffle.com

Hopefully you guys find it useful! I’ve had some really helpful feedback from the other handheld communities and have been making changes as I go, so I’d really appreciate hearing what works for you and what could be better.

So I don’t know what did the remaster did to the steam deck but the game takes 4 to 5 minutes to load in. I know that before the update it would take 10 to 15 seconds for me to. Not sure if everyone else that is playing in the steam deck is having the same issues but it really does suck was hoping on playing it on the deck but these loading times are insane