Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the January 2024, sorted by playtime.

PalWorld being number 2 is pretty impressive considering it only came out on the 19th. I suppose the huge number of players would make up for the relatively limited time.
- Wonder how long that is going to last. Remember when Hogwarts legacy used to be a top played game?
  
  but, it's still #8? not exactly fell off.
  
  Yeah, but Hogwarts legacy was kind of bad gameplay and story wise, wasn't it?
- It is quite long game, and only second game ever to break 2M concurrent players on steam

I'm glad to see Dave the Diver up there. It's been my comfort food for a few weeks now, and it's easy to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. Perfect for the Deck imo.
- It really is a fantastic game. It's simple while still being complex. It has a great progression and fun gameplay loop. None of my friends have heard of it, outside of me saying how great it is. Makes me happy to see it's doing well.

Damn. I must play Brotato more. Not showing on the list
- Honestly, it was like my third most played game of 2023
- I've been playing Soulstone Survivors again, recently. They've added a lot of great stuff with updates since I last played. Lots of "Bullet Heaven" (?) games beyond Vampire Survivors to enjoy!
  (Is that what we're calling this genre, btw? It doesn't make much sense, imho, so I hope we have a better name.)

I'm amazed at the strong showing for older games like Stardew (which has an update coming soon) and Isaac. I mean, they're timeless games, just fun to see people still really into them!
I've been playing the first Like a Dragon, which is as much melodramatic and zany fun as any of the Yakuza games. I was very hesitant about the turn-based battle system, but it works really well and still feels like Yakuza.
Also been working on a second run of Grime, the metroidvania, which also had a big final update this week. It's very fun and ranks high among MVs for me, but it's also pretty hard and requires a nearly Seikiro-like mastery of defense timings.
- I also fixed a weird SteamDeck issue this week. Maybe others will run into it. My deck started going super slow, and having trouble booting. I even tried a factory reset to no avail and was getting ready to warranty it, when I thought to try one last trick.
  Apparently going into the system setup menu (hold Volume + while turning it on) and turning on long term battery storage mode, then turning it off again (by booting up with the power cord in) somehow fixes this issue. So i did that, and it worked!
  I'm mystified as to what random setting got flipped that this corrects, but I'm happy it worked.
  
  I had the same issue ages ago with the same fix. I'm curious what setting is getting stuck and why it hasn't been addressed in over a year.

Here's my list:
The curse of monkey island
Super meat boy
VVVVVV
You have to win the game
Firewatch
- I've been hearing about The Curse of Monkey Island. What's it like?
  
  A really good remaster. Let's you toggle between that and the original view seamlessly. The game itself is a funny point and click puzzle game with a decent story
- Firewatch on your list was awesome. Really enjoyed it.
  Never heard of the second last game.
  V6 and Super meat boy are such a legendary games. Enjoy! For other platformers I'd suggest Owlboy, DuckTales, Hollow Knight, Celeste and Rogue legacies when you have time or haven't played them yet.
- VVVVVV, to this day, gives me joy.

And there is me who is playing Just Cause 2...
- I'm enjoying JC4.
  
  Played it at release, just after replaying the 3, and I found it a bit slow compared to the 3. But I think I will replay the 3 games on my deck.

I see Diablo 4 is still on the list. I haven't played since season 1. I bought it from blizzard but I'm on Linux now so I was thinking about getting it on steam. Is there any way to get around buying it again in the steam store? I imagine I'd still have to connect my old account.
- You can install the battle net launcher on the steam deck and play. I'll see if I can find the installation instructions and edit my post.
  Edit: https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck
- Install lutris then battle.net... I play wow, Diablo and Warcraft 3 on kubuntu.....
  And have battle.net on my stream deck (installed via non-steam game) wow installed and docked while playing away from home using kbm
  Your welcome ;)
- Why do you need to rebuy it from steam? They don't have a Linux version?

It seems like Monster Hunter has slowly been rising up these lists!
- My money is on more Steam Decks being sold in Japan, thus driving MH up in those lists.
  
  Good call, I bet that's likely it!
  
  I don't know, if I had to guess it's probably the return to world campaign.
  With the announcement of the next monster hunter game, which is being made by the same team as world (so likely it's going to be very similar to world) Capcom started advertising world again and that shot it up to daily peaks of ~160K concurrent players for a while.
- Interesting that it's world, and not rise. I know World is more popular on PC, but Rise is nice for the Deck.
  
  I agree. I noticed in the U.S. World has a very large base of the realism crowd that got brought in because of the Sony/MS console release. I like both aesthetics, but I also value a gameplay loop I enjoy - Rise reminds me of old MH and World gameplay is just a tad tedious at the endgame for me.
  There's also a pretty large modding scene for World, although I don't know how that fares for the Steam Deck. I will say though, both Rise and World run really well, Rise obviously just a little smoother but not to say that World runs poorly by any means.
  I'd be interested in seeing how many of the players were new, returning, or been playing all along

Sorry guys that a Binding of Isaac placement is definitely me. I decided to finally beat all the bosses with every character and probably spent the whole month playing that game to do so.

Is the list really by playtime on the Steam Deck?

How are y'all getting BG3 to be tolerable on the deck? I've tried a few suggested settings but it always feels really bad :(
- You honestly just have to accept 30fps.

Stardew Valley is creeping up on being my most played Steam game of all time. Entirely on Deck. I am starting to loathe it a bit now though. I'm very late game, and it's super grindy. It's just so chill though, I have trouble putting it down. I love me some brain rattling difficult Souls games, but Stardew Valley just lets me completely zone out. I also get something close to seven hours of battery with it unlike anything demanding that kills it in 2 or 3.

Palworld is so fucking addictive. Especially when you have a dedicated server with several friends in a guild all working together to hatch Uber monsters. Fun as fuck.

Vampire survivors just a silly little itch game I can get away with a quick game before my committments....

I wonder how Warframe is on it. Not really an oldschool shooter, but still got me to use M+KB over a controller.
- Runs great for me— it’s how I’ve been playing it
  Edit: cross save went life so I’m playing with all the stuff I collected on the ps4
- I've played something like 800 hours on the Nintendo switch, it was fine except for some of the lock puzzles which are way easier on mouse.
  You gotta use motion controls though (well depending on the frame I guess)
  
  motion controls? for what?

How does Hogwarts Legacy run on the Steam Deck? With a GTX 2060 and FX-8350 I am unable to get good frame rates, even on the lowest settings
- You're being bottlenecked by that CPU big time.
- The second half of this article is specifically about the FX-8350 and Hogwarts Legacy performance in case you're interested
  https://www.tomshardware.com/news/k6-fx-8350-revisited-2023-compared-to-modern-ryzens-games
- That FX-8350 is the problem.
- It helps that it runs in 720p on the Deck, but it was still bad enough for me to refund it. Looks super blurry and low frame rate.
- I mostly played it on the steamdeck and it worked quite well with acceptable frame rates.

D4bad
- I enjoyed season 2 with a lightning ball sorc and a double xp week
- Actually though

- I'm not sure if I understand the question but CS2 is a thing.
- The steam deck is a console with joysticks, so people don't really play fps on it
  
  Gyro controls are underrated.
- is there an English translate for this
  
  Naughties is British/Australian for aughts or '00-'09. And then I think boomer refers to "boomer shooter"? Or just the fact that zoomers call (older) millennials boomers.

But what about the February, or the March?
- CRYSTAL BALL MISSING