Some games I’d rather play on PC for various reasons (immersion, control scheme, etc), but then some games felt just right to play on the Deck, Blasphemous, Pentiment, Citizen Sleeper…

I’m looking for more games like that, ideally 20-30 hours to complete, easy to pick up and put down, and good performance

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    23 hours ago

    This is super interesting. To me Factorio feels so clumsy when you can’t access keyboard shortcuts. How did you get the controls to work well?

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      8 hours ago

      As Minnels pointed out, Wube put in work to make the game controller friendly for the Switch. On Deck, the trackpads make it even better. I play with the default settings but, like the OG Steam Controller, the controls are further customizable through Steam’s own interface. There are a few community layouts people seem fond of, which probably map some toggles or whatnot missing from the default layout, but I think it’s incredibly playable as is.

      I’ve been on a hiatus from Factorio for about a month now but I’ve set up a dedicated server on the aforementioned NAS. I think I’m going to go another another bender soon and use it as an excuse to learn a little LUA and maybe Grafana as well. I think it’d be fun, once my build is semi-stable, to let it run unpaused even when players aren’t connected and have alerts set up based on the tracked stats. Will see how that pans out.

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        8 hours ago

        Sounds interesting. I wonder how that experience will balance with regards to establishing new mines… I could imagine that stable defenses can be set up against biters, but that resource patches will quickly run out if the game is left alone for 48+ hours

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      9 hours ago

      I think they made the controls controller friendly with the release of the switch version. Haven’t tried it myself but maybe should one day. Love Factorio.