{"id":39061,"date":"2022-06-06T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hades-slay-the-spire-among-the-most-played-games-on-steam-deck\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:30:08","slug":"hades-slay-the-spire-among-the-most-played-games-on-steam-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hades-slay-the-spire-among-the-most-played-games-on-steam-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"Hades, Slay The Spire Among The Most-Played Games On Steam Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Valve’s Steam Deck promises all the same handheld freedom as the Nintendo Switch, but with vastly more powerful tech under the hood, capable of running the most lavishly produced AAA games. A few months in, according to a blog post<\/span> from Valve, it turns out everyone’s just using the thing to play a bunch of those \u201cthis is perfect<\/em> on Switch “titles.<\/p>\n

The Steam Deck<\/span>, announced<\/span> last summer and released this February, is Valve’s foray into handheld gaming. For a handheld, it’s pretty beefy, both in terms of its physicality and its technical guts, replete with a custom AMD chip that’s a twist on what’s included in next-gen consoles. (The Steam Deck can’t run games at 4K, though, displaying them instead at 1200px resolution.) It’s available in three models, with pricing mostly based on internal storage<\/span>ranging from a 64GB hard drive ($ 400) to a 512GB solid-state drive ($ 650).<\/p>\n

Given its technical capabilities, you’d be right to expect Steam Deck users to spend time with blockbusters that simply aren’t playable on Switch, due to either legal or technical constraints. But for the most part, players have gravitated toward lower-fidelity indie hits. Here are the top ten most-played games of Steam Deck of May 2022, organized alphabetically:<\/p>\n