Category: April

About a year ago, I released a blog post called “A Harmless Bit Of Self-Promotion” which covered much of the content that I’ve been producing as of late. However, besides a few things that I can’t talk about yet, something new that I’ve been trying lately is to stream myself playing games. Now that it’s been a couple of months, I thought now was as good a time as any to take a look at my current plans for streaming video games, how you can access the content I’ve already made and what you should expect in the future.

Let’s start, of course, with where and when you can find me streaming. I’m currently streaming games on Twitch every Sunday (or, if circumstances prevent me from doing so, Saturday) at around 2pm IST. I’m a variety streamer with the games I’m choosing to play being titles from my video game backlog with one caveat, I’m currently staying away from games with an excessively long playtime, as determined by HLTB, as I don’t want to spend too long playing a single game this early on as I think I can catch more people’s attention with a wider range of titles.

The three games I’ve streamed so far as of this article.

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I remember the days when people would loudly declare “Single-player games are dead” and, thankfully, this has not come to pass. I touched on this well over a year ago when I compared the most popular games on Steam with the most popular games on the Steam Deck and found that single-player games were thriving on the handheld. As part of their Spring Sale, Valve have released a list of the top 100 games on the Steam Deck from March 2023 to March 2024 in order of highest daily active player count. While I certainly won’t be going through the entire list within this article, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the top played games on the Steam Deck last year, discuss some that stand out to me for one reason or another and why this list signals that single-player games have a long, healthy and prosperous future awaiting.

Let’s start with which games from this list that I’ve played on my Steam Deck within the past year, thus contributing to their ranking. Working from the bottom up, the first game from these top 100 that I played on my Steam Deck within the last year is Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. I had enjoyed the first game enough that, already owning the second due to Humble Bundle, I decided to give it a chance. I didn’t really feel like it did enough to distinguish itself from the original and, while certainly enjoyable in a braindead manner, I was more than ready for the end when I finally finished the game. I’d played Monster Hunter Rise before March of last year but I picked up the Sunbreak DLC this year and played through that recently. It was nice to return to Monster Hunter but I will say that I thought there was a bit too much repetition of monsters from the base game throughout although particularly at the beginning. Finally, the only other one I played on the Steam Deck in the past year was Vampire Survivors. I knew of this game for a long time but I got it as part of a charity bundle on Fanatical and decided that I should give it a shot. It has proven to be a surprisingly addictive experience and I love how the achievements continually unlock more and more content.

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