I recently got a Steamdeck and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations of games that take almost 0 brainpower to play so that I can focus on listening to audiobooks.
For me that means no dialogue and no text to read. Games that have worked for me so far are:
- Rocket League (difficult to play on Steamdeck)
- Vampire Survivors (once I learned what each item does)
- Peggle
Games that I’ve had trouble with include
- Sifu
- Brotato (gotta read to learn the items)
- Factorio
- Baba is You
Games I have yet to really try:
- Elite Dangerous
- Elden Ring
- Dorf Romantik (this is promising)
- Powerwash Simulator (also promising)
- RollerDrome
- Halo: MCC online (is Halo 3 online viable on steamdeck?)
- Risk of Rain 2
- Hades
Anyone have any suggestions? I’m running out of ideas and may end up just forgoing this hole idea in favor of keeping gaming and books separate
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I do this with massive open Ubisoft worlds like Ghost Recon and Far Cry. In-between missions and story stuff is far too much crap to clear out and do, if you like covering every square inch.
GTA V/Online. Just drive around
I’m kind of mindlessly grinding levels in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters right now.
I was going to say Vampire Survivors but looks like you’ve already mentioned that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2420510/HoloCure__Save_the_Fans/ - more Vampire Survivors (Dare I say better.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535560/Farmer_Against_Potatoes_Idle/ - I apologize in advanced if you get hooked on this.
Both are free.
maybe one of the Truck Simulators?
Seconded. Between American Truck Simulator and Snowrunner I went through… I think Star Trek Voyager, Charmed and unavoidably something else too. Both games run well on the Deck (ATS has a Linux version: pick the Windows one, it’s far more optimized)
Edit: and Forza Horizon! Can’t forget that.
graphicaudio.net has great full cast audio productions of book novels and comic books.
No man’s sky might be good for this!
a lone scientist in a satelite array scanning for signals, processing them, repairing the servers, sending codes, trying to maintain a sleep schedule. Scientist things.
PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate, while I love the games music, it’s not necessary since it’s a tower defence game.
Elite Dangerous is an excellent choice for any audiobook or show, especially if you’re exploring the black or doing trade loops.
I completed a few anime shows on my way to the galactic center.
No Man’s Sky would be good for the same reasons.
Minecraft or any number of the farming/life sim games out there. I’ve dug countless tunnels in Minecraft while listening to various things.
I’m doing this with TOTK at the moment but it does mean I’m kind of ignoring the story aspects.
For me it’s definitely Viscera Cleanup Detail. Super chill and satisfying cleaning game that I often boot up when I just want to shoot the shit with someone. There’s also quite a few custom maps after you get through the official ones.
Also Cities Skylines (the first one). Sometimes I just spend a couple hours watching my trains go around with a first person vehicle mod while I watch videos.
Definitely farming simulator or euro truck simulator.
I’m very bad at multitasking but thanks for the recommendations! I wish we had Peggle 2 on Steam, that actually sounds great to play listening to something.
