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      My dad has been playing it, and almost exclusively it, for years. From 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X. It’s literally the only game he even has for the X, he bought the machine just to play Skyrim. He was so excited to find mods. Idk how many thousands of hours he has in it.

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      Say what you will about Bethesda and Skyrim, but they must have done something right because people still can’t put it down over a decade later. I do want to play it at some point, but I don’t know when I’ll have that kind of time.

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      To be fair, it was a really fun game. They did a great job with it. In fact, I’ve been itching to play it again.

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    Linked is an image of text. It’s bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:

    Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played

    • Baldur’s Gate 3
    • ELDEN RING
    • DAVE THE DIVER
    • Stardew Valley
    • Vampire Survivors
    • Grand Theft Auto V
    • Red Dead Redemption 2
    • Brotato
    • Fallout 4
    • Cyberpunk 2077
    • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
    • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
    • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
    • ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
    • Hogwarts Legacy
    • Slay the Spire
    • Hades
    • HoloCure - Save the Fans!
    • Remnant II
    • Halls of Torment
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      At the bottom it does say “…by hours played” indicating it’s in ranked order.

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        “top 20 by hours played” doesn’t specify order though, does it? Sure, it’s expected. But not explicit. I guess you expect “20 most played games” otherwise?

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        Thankfully OP linked to an imgur screenshot - I didn’t have to visit the Twitter source.

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      The fact that you can play it with all the infinite goodness from the Workshop is a really strong selling point because it’s thus the only mobile version of Isaac that is actually up to date + modded compared to mobile/console versions.

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      I’m surprised too! Feels like this game came out of nowhere and still has lots of room to grow, good for the devs.

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      I stopped playing after the second stages final boss took no damage. I spent 20 minutes on him and got him 1/4th of the way dead maybe. Ended up just quitting the run.

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    seeing fallout 4 and skyrim still doing so well brings a smile to my face, at the time i genuinely bought a ps4 so i could play them

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    Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.

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      I’ve been playing it since it launched, I’ll replay it until Geralt isn’t cool anymore.

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    Damn people are able to play baldurs gate on there? I tried and everything becomes so blurry that it’s not even worth. Wonder if I’m doing something wrong

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    I’ve been happily adding to Dave the Diver’s numbers, such a perfect fit! Pretty interesting list all around, definitely some surprises in there.

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      It is amazing how every time you think “surely by now, I must have seen most of what Dave has to offer” it fires off another bonkers event.

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        Yup, never ceases to amaze me! If with no context you’d described to me everything the game throws at you, I’d straight up think it’d never work but, amazingly, it all somehow fits together nicely. Hell, the base roguelite + management sim premise is wild enough on its own lol.
        Very much looking forward to whatever they come up with next!

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    Not sure what it says about the current state of gaming that so many of these games are quite old

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      Not much? I eyeball it as about 1/4 of the games being in the last two years. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

      If an actual majority were brand new games it would just tell you that PC gamers (or at least steam deck) are just chasing novelty over quality. It’s OK not to play every brand new game right on release, and it’s OK to play older games.

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        It looks like 1/4 of the games were released in the last 2 months(ish) lol:
        -Baldur’s Gate 3
        -Dave the Diver
        -Armored Core 6
        -Holocure
        -Remnant 2

        If I’m counting it right, half of the games were released in the last 2 years

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      Nah last few years have released some of the best games of all time. Just this year alone we got TOTK and Baulders Gate 3. Gaming is in really good shape right now.

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      I think it says far more about the capabilities of the steam deck. The thing is perfect for older, less intensive titles. I wouldn’t expect this list to be filled with new releases.

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      Play halls of torment! Really similar vibe, with a different graphical style and gameplay loop. So much fun!!!