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what games run okay but drain too much battery

It’s easy to find information online suggesting games that don’t suck down the battery too fast. But it’s not as easy going the other way.

I ended up with a spare 512gb card, so I’ve popped it in my hub/dock to add on games that I’ll only play when docked.

I’ve got Cyberpunk and Elden Ring on it. When I played those I lost about 30% battery in <20 minutes. But they performed fine.

Looking for more suggestions like this, so I can build myself a database of games to pop on this card.

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  • Black Mesa, Witcher 3 on high graphics quality setup. Generally, I tend to lower the quality just to increase the battery life: anyways I usually don't notice very much of graphical improvement on high setup.

  • A lot of Sony's games (God of War, Spiderman, Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn) run pretty decent but will max out the power usage. Expedition 33 has been my recent favorite game, and it definitely brings my OLED down to it's min battery life of about 2.5 hours.

  • I mean half the games in my library will max out the power draw at ~21w

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