Hi guys! So, yeah…Which games are good for a nice gaming session while on a flight? Last time I played one of the newer Tomb Raider games, and while performance was good, it decked (heh) the battery in less than 1h… So, while I like these too, if the flight doesn’t have a socket under the seat I might want to play games that don’t kill the battery immediately. What’s your best/most addictive Deck games? Also, after the whole big N mess…how’s the Switch emulation these days?
Xonotic against the (reallllyy hard) bots is a great time if you are comfortable with playing fps games with joysticks and gyro. I mention it just because it probably has the best performance of any 3D shooter/action game in existence given it is built on the darkplaces engine which is a descendent of the original quake engine.
The steamdeck is stone cold when I play Xonotic whipping around multiplayer levels at 60fps blasting opponents, the fan doesn’t even go on lol. I am not suggesting playing it for the whole flight but it is a great game you can start playing quickly and immediately jump into really intense FPS combat.
Maybe people will think this is an obscure suggestion for the steam deck but boomer shooters have become more and more popular and yet… Xonotic’s combat is WAYYYY more locked in and nuanced than those games will ever be since Xonotic is the end result of decades of tweaking the Quake multiplayer combat formula whereas boomer shooters are trying to recreate the vibes from scratch.
The rocket launcher in Xonotic that you can steer with your aim after it has launched is hands down the best rocket launcher in multiplayer shooters, is a strong contender for being Best Rocket Launcher Ever and is a BLAST to control with gyroscope.
What kind of games do you like?