I am not a big chess nut, but I just gave “The Chess” a quick spin. To me, controls seem good, you use the right touchpad as mouse and the tight trigger as your mouse button.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have save/load functionality.

Or maybe The Chess: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3158990/The_Chess/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/
Sounds exactly what you’re looking for.

Jokes aside, what about free chess on steam? Seems reasonably polished to me, is marked playable on deck and its free. What exactly have you had issues with other chess games with? Controls?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2672290/Free_Chess/

If you mean downloading, there is wine cellar

I have PC2 in my collection but haven’t tried it on the deck yet. I played quite a lot of the original Project Cars, which has a career mode, but that one is just seemingly linear progression, “moving up” in the series. It’s unfortunately lacking the entire car collecting aspect, checking which of your cars works for a specific event/series, and if none fits, “go shopping” for a car that does.

I also have Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione on steam, and they are great sims to sit down in front of the tv, set up a wheel and go racing, but they, too, lack the entire car collection aspect. You start a race or series, hop in a car that’s provided, and once done, you move on to the next series, abandon the old car, and get in a new one.

Really the best thing I can play is GT4 or Forza 4 on an emulator, and Forza 4 doesn’t currently work on the 360 emus :(

I am honestly missing something like that, too. A racing game that’s similar to Forza Motorsport 4 or Gran Turismo 4. Where you have to start off with small, cheap cars, compete with them earn money, buy other cars for other cups with specific limiations (“only FWD japanese cars built on a tuesday in 1978”), collecting cars along the way, etc.

Racing games are my absolute favourite genre. I played quite a few of them on the deck, here’s a list of games I can recommend:

• 80s Overdrive
• Burnout Paradise Remastered
• Dirt 3
• Horizon Chase Turbo
• Make Way
• Mudrunner
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered
• New Star GP
• Project Cars
• Race Condition
• Spintires
• Split/second
• WRC 10
• Wreckfest

Note: some titles, namely Dirt 3, Project Cars or Spintires are no longer available officially, but can still be purchased on key resellers for reasonable prices.

I can get this to work on my steam deck. Back buttons and gyro.

But on my PC, it doesn’t work. Does anyone know what the requirements for this to work are? Do I need a specific Bluetooth version?

Crash Bandicoot trilogy for 3,99€ was in instant buy for me.

honestly, it’s mostly the same for me, as well. I might play a game on epic, give it a whirl and if I like it, put it on my wishlist, hoping it’ll appear in a bundle anytime soon.

Fair question.
AFAIU, the GOG extension was a perk that you received for a one-time payment ($6 iirc), and I believe there were two different ways to make that payment. Continous membership/subscription to patreon was not necessary.

Unfortunately, they seem to have completely wiped information regarding this from their website, I can’t find it there anymore.

EDIT: used archive.org to look up their old, pre-v2-announcement website:

It was a one-time purchase via Ko-Fi or patreon.

Feedback in their discord seems overwhelmingly negative. Personally, them putting the GoG extension behind a paywall already left a sour taste in my mouth. Lack of GOG and Amazon support in Junk Store was always a big inconvenience that required use of heroic anyways, so for me it was more convenient to just stick to heroic alltogether. And I will keep using Heroic launcher, instead, their $40 p/a price certainly didn’t win me over.

I don’t wish junk store bad luck in their endevour, but I strongly believe if they actually pull through with this, it is going to crash and burn. Hard. It wont generate enough revenue to sustain long term development and will be either partially or fully abandoned within 18 months. The concept of Junk Store is too niché to not be a FOSS community driven project.

They try to make it sound like it is not a subscription model: you pay $40 for 12 months of updates and support and keep using the software afterwards without receiving updates. But in practice, this wont work for very long. Store APIs are gonna change, backends are going to break, etc., making updates be a necessity. Software as a Service.

One thing I found to be a particular slap in the face for current supporters was a FAQ regarding the future of the GOG extension for the Decky plugin:

Q: Since GOG addon support is going to be bug-fix only, will it be added to the public domain?
A: We’re using the GOG addon as a canary in the coal mine. If enough people continue to support it by purchasing, that sends a clear signal we should keep investing time into both the GOG addon and maintaining the open-source code. However, if sales drop off significantly, it will indicate we can safely scale back or stop work on the open-source version without jeopardizing the project’s sustainability.

It’ll be self fullfilling. People are going to stop buying the GOG extension for the current decky plugin, because future updates are not guaranteed. That reduction in sales is going to indicate to them, that there is no longer demand for it and every current supported is SOL. They are not even guaranteing a fixed ammount of support for the current extension here, they keep it vague and open.
If I had paid for the GOG extension, this FAQ would make me mad.

$40 for junk store is an insane price, even more insane that its a yearly subscription 😳

Yes we actually still have them, but we have them in the most insulting way, basically one half of the shell is a candy part and the other is the toy and each half is separate by its own film covering.

In Europe (or Germany, at least) they are sold under the name “Kinder Joy”, so we can choose between those and Kinder surprise.

I bet it was because one kid in the 80s or some shit was in some freak accident or something

Actually, that’s not the case. Kinder Surprise is banned under a law from 1938, long before the product was even conceived.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/342
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/331

Same here, gotta have to wait for the Firefox version being approved.

FYI, your section about PS2 hacking has a header titled “PS3 jailbreak”

You can also find plenty of similar designs for third party chargers.

Since my original charger is set up behind my TV for when I want to hook the deck up, I am using a small Anker 313 45W charger for on the go.

I haven’t had much luck with HD texture packs on the steam deck, unfortunately. I tried Gran Turismo and - more importantly - shadow of the colossus. But performance dropped to unplayable :(

The day epic stops giving out free games, is the day I stop regularly visiting their store, tbh.

Their storefront is horrible, lacks basic features steam had for years and their CEO is particularly unpleasant. I’m glad I haven’t given epic a single penny.

Actually less worried about shorting something, note worried about it damaging some adhesive or protective film, or anything on the screen, really :)