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Here's the most played Steam Deck games for April 2025, Balatro still top but Oblivion Remastered sneaks in second

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3mo ago

Here's the most played Steam Deck games for April 2025, Balatro still top but Oblivion Remastered sneaks in second

www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/05/heres-the-most-played-steam-deck-games-for-april-2025-balatro-still-top-but-oblivion-remastered-sneaks-in-second/

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Steam Deck players seem to love single-player RPGs :)
- I am such a weirdo, my most played steam deck games are multiplayer shooters, a multiplayer RTS and and a realistic driving game and I pretty much only play with onboard controls usually.
  It makes sense why people would love the Deck for singleplayer rpgs, I just don't make any sense.
  
  The nice thing about the Steam Deck is that you can play just about anything you want. If you love categories of games that are not in the Top 10, feel free to enjoy them.
I just wish the SD was a bit more powerful. Recently especially with those UE5 games we need to install some custom scripts just to make them playable and usually they don't even look good. I love the Deck, but Steam should really update the APU.
- I think it plenty powerful. Games are just so unoptimized it's disgusting
- Seems like the UE5 games can't get steady framerates on most hardware, but I know what you mean.
  I'm definitely looking forward to steam deck 2, but I do appreciate that Valve isn't pushing out a new one each year with slightly improved specs. And now that the nintendo switch 2 has about the same power as the steam deck, maybe we'll see UE5 and some other engines actually try to run well at that performance level.
- Agreed. We don’t need it to perform like an RTX 5090 but just a smidge more power would get a ton of recent games into playable frame rates. I still don’t know how people play BG3 on the deck.
  
  I requested a refund for BG3 because it’s not as good as a verified version IMO, but valve refused it.
  ‘How people play BG3 on the deck?’
  If you urgently want to play games on the deck, 25-30fps and basic graphics quality are tolerable.
  I love my steam deck so much, but i really want to buy a steam deck 2 ASAP!
  
  I've been playing rogue trader on mine recently, I'd describe as playable, but it's night and day different going through moonlight (which yeah, obviously). Satisfactory was able to get 40-60 pretty reliably.
  How bad is bg3 on it?
- There hasn't really been anything worthwhile to upgrade to yet. More powerful handhelds do exist, but most make use of APUs that are 50-100% more power hungry, while not actually achieving that much of a performance increase.
  Valve is waiting for the next generation of 15W APUs, and meanwhile the new Ryzen Z2 A APU is actually based on the one made for the Deck because it's still basically the most efficient APU they have.
How does this compare to just most popular games on Steam? Is there a significant difference?

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