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Edit: Thanks so much for all your awesome recommendations and feedback. Based on sheer popularity it looks like my next 3 franchises will be Mass Effect (5 votes), Dead Space (3 votes) and Batman Arkham (3 votes). I love Lemmy!


So since picking up my steam deck last year I've been slowly but surely working through some old trilogies that I never got round to playing. I'm a very casual gamer who plays when opportunity strikes, so it's taken me a year to play all 3 bioshock, mafia and tomb raider games. I played them in alternating order of release (bioshock 1, mafia 1, tomb raider, bioshock 2, mafia 2, tomb raider 2 etc) and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of watching each story unfold and graphics improve.

So as I approach the end of Mafia 3, I'm looking to repeat this exercise. The Assassin's creed collection just went on sale on steam, so I'm thinking I may start there, so am looking for recommendations for another 2 franchises to compliment (or change up) my playing experience over the next year.

Any help much appreciated!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For games that you can download and play right away on the Steam Deck

-Mass Effect Legendary Edition Remastered

-Dead Space

-Yakuza series

-Uncharted Trilogy

-Shadows of Mordor and Shadows of War

I would also recommend Max Payne 1-3, but that I know of the first one, at least, does need a bit finagling.

Also the Borderlands series, not sure if it can be played on Deck as is. 2 is a masterpiece though

I also would also not recommend anything Ubisoft right now with the whole deleting people's profiles and game libraries right now, even though Black Flag is one of my favorites. With all the other games and series everyone else is recommending, anything Ubisoft made can take a backseat for now imo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Please do try the Mass Effect trilogy if you haven't yet. I put it off for the longest time and then just started playing. I finished all three games within a combined 100h over the course of like two months and could not play anything else. It was that good.