Hi. So background is I’m 50 and I’ve not done much gaming since vice city and the original silent hills +unreal tournament. I’m trying to get back into it but I’m frustratingly crap.

I’ve got a steam deck and my neighbour has one too, we were looking for games we could play either head to head or cooperative. People suggested left 4 dead 2 and we managed to get that working through lobby thing but it was laggy and TBH it was a bit chaotic for us. Too much constant running and shooting and no time to pause for thought or discuss strategy.

I think we’re looking for something with a bit of occasional violence but also some strategy - not just bang bang all the time. Maybe even something that doesn’t involve violence at all. But we both working and only got an hour or two a day for game time.

Any suggestions?

First if it’s possible to locally connect 2 steam decks (without a fuckin cable!). Second on what games might be fun. Needs to not have a big learning curve and be something we can just play for an hour or two when we have time.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. Cheers

  • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    If you like FPS’s but also like a variety of mission types and being able to scale the difficulty, my suggestion is Deep Rock Galactic. Fantastic game… one of my friends and I play it every weekend. Takes about 30 minutes for the average two-player mission, up to maybe 45 at longest, so you can easily block out playtime.

    Also, in general, regardless of what you’re playing… you don’t really need a LAN to play together, you can just friend each other on Steam and easily join each other’s games that way. Even if you’re both in your own residences, the voice chat tool in Steam is great for talking while playing games.

  • scallred@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Yeah, I have a few recommendations! I haven’t done peer to peer intranet connecting, but I have done the multiplayer for these games that are pretty accessible price and resource wise and are fun to play with friends:

    • Rocket League ($0) - a fantastic co-op or versus game involving a neat concept of rocket powered car soccer. It may take a while to get use to the controls/concept, but I’ve sunk a large number of hours into it! It also has a pretty good training mode and AI exhibition matches to get you up to speed.

    • Marvel Rivals ($0) - a new release hero shooter in Marvel Comics fashion. Has some teamwork and strategy in its 6v6 games and is an accessible into into hero shooters.

    • Portal 2 ($10) - one of my favorite games ever. Its a story driven puzzle game involving spacial vending portals. Can be played co-op and it a very fun experience single player or with others.

    • Overwatch 2 ($0) - see marvel rivals, as this came out first.

    • CSGO ($0) - a classic multiplayer shooter with a long time following.

    • Helldivers 2 ($40) - modern bullet hell Coop shooter against lore specific aliens and robot enemy hordes.

    • Battelbit Remastered ($15) - battlefield-esque shooter gameplay with big maps, small battalions within larger teams, and vehicles. Indie dev.

    • Ultimate chicken horse ($15) - a very fun single device coop thats a combative platformer. Great with groups, and it says it supports online play.

    • Divinity Original Sin / DOS2 / Baldurs Gate 3 - all fantastic co-op fantasy RPGs that can be paused and picked up whenever. BG3 is the most recent and is very well critically acclaimed.