Not everyone is going to hop onto the internet to publicly report their issues.
But enough people are. People are talking about every small thing they did, what happened, whatever.
Also, with all the different plugins or stats available on this thing to track everything, you can probably create a pretty detailed breakdown of what someone did with their Steam Deck.
You’ll definitely have users gaming on the thing for 8+ hours every day, so I don’t see much value in that. Like I said, you might as well just wait for users to report their experiences.
needs to do now is to create a more realistic test. Using static elements for maybe 6 hours at a time every day
That’s kinda useless. You might as well just wait for the user reports at that point.
These unrealistic torture tests accelerate the potential burn-in, and it’s still useful to gauge how long it could really take.
Not any better even if you know.
What? It just removes a mod. If you don’t like it, don’t use Nexusmods. By removing this disclaimer it makes the mod creator look bad. Because the disclaimer wasn’t hurting anyone.
I’ve done some runs, unlocked all four classes, and right now I’d agree. All the characters feel pretty weak to me, even though I’m just playing on the lowest difficulty, where you’d usually expect to cruise through, depending on your experience.
I tried that as well, but really didn’t like it. The visual especially were extremely unappealing to me.
Since you’re on PC, using cheats or potentially mods can expand the list of games you have available, since you might be able to just ignore certain aspects of a game, like combat, money or resources in general.
The more recent Assassin’s Creed games have something called a Discovery Tour, where you can just explore the world, without combat. They are partially meant for educational purposes and can teach about the different regions and history, and offer guided tours. I don’t know if there’s a real free roam, where you can just do whatever though.
You mentioned buying Goat Simulator, so maybe other of these “Simulator” games might be for you.
I don’t know how much you can go into houses, but Farming Simulator could be worth a look. Your kid can probably just explore the map and maybe even try some of the farming.
As someone else mentioned, Slime Rancher might be fun just to explore the world with the cute creatures all around, but there’s not really much or any buildings as far as I know (don’t know if the sequel has this stuff).
A Short Hike could be worth a look. You’re on a mountainous island / national park type deal and your main objective is to get to the peak of the mountain, but you can just explore, do some side quests, solve puzzles, etc. I feel like the screenshots on the Steam Store page for the game look really ugly, since it’s so pixelated, but that’s just a filter, that you can change in game (from smooth to really pixely).
It’s close between Baldurs Gate 3 and Nioh 2.
BG3 is just that good, but Nioh 2 is one of my all time favorites, and I finally cleared everything in the game, early 2023.
Were they? Their three releases since Saints Row 4 ten years ago weren’t that well received. It’s not like they were releasing smash hit after smash hit (lately). Maybe they killed themselves.
I played that on Game Pass, when it launched, and really liked it. Although some of the movement could be a bit frustrating, since you are just a blob of meat.
The last few Square releases weren’t Epic exclusive, if they even released there. However, Square also seemingly changes their mind about this stuff, like people change their underwear, so who knows in the end.