Hi everyone, I’m looking for some grindy games to play on the deck (any genre is OK).

Currently playing monster hunter world and I think I’ll give factorio a try.

Any suggestions?

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    You could probably play the SCS Truck Simulator games basically indefinitely.

    Vampire Survivors is an absurdly addicting Deck game, and can be considered grindy if you go for the eggs late-game.

    Deep Rock Galactic is a good one too, if you’re okay with no aim assist and playing solo or with randoms.

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    Gunfire Reborn, Hades, Vampire Survivor, Cyberpunk 2077, Carrion, Slime Rancher 1 & 2, Stardew Valley, Warframe, Death Stranding, Wreckfest, Orcs Must Die 3, Castle Crashers, ARK: Survival Evolved, and Dead Cells are all over the map genre wise but all have grindy elements that may or may not vibe with you.

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    No mans Sky is pretty good. My buddy and I teamed up and make a series of production facilities across a network of planets in order to provide enough materials to manufacture the most expensive items in the game.

    There was no reason to do that considering how charitable people are, but we just did it anyway.

    You can also grind for the best ships and gear and stuff, or build a base on a planet or on a space freighter.

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      I attempted to do that once. I got a couple hours into calculating exactly what all I needed before giving up. Especially after figuring out it’s not even the best way to make money in the game. But I’ve also spent hours and hours designing and building bases just for fun, so I get it.

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        Yeah I couldn’t have done it alone. My friend did the calculation and I did the planet hunting. We’d team up to pinpoint optimal resource points and constructing their facilities. However, since he owned some facilities and I owned others, we could only access them all when we were both online. Also, only he had the recipe for some parts and I the others, so we had to do some passing back and forth to complete the process. We only ever did it once and realized we probably wouldn’t need to do it ever again with all the money we got out of it.

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    really enjoying halls of torment, vampire survivors, project zomboid, and persona 5 on the deck lately. And of course Palworld runs great, very grindy but i’ve been playing it mainly on desktop.

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    Factorio is indeed a great choice. Whenever you’re ready for more Monster Hunter, Risse+Sunbreak is also amazing (playing it now myself). ARPGs like Grim dawn and Chronicon also give plenty of playtime if they’re your style.

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    Path of Exile has a lot of good grind to it. Every league added mechanics, and a bunch of them went core over the years. Also, if you haven’t hit the Guiding Lands in MHW, the grind gets real there.

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    Warframe. I played it for 1400 hours, and I can attest that it is grindy.

    But it’s still fun, and there’s a lot of content for a F2P game. You can even earn the premium currency by grinding (and a few events throughout the year). It’s Deck Verified, too!

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      Seconded. Let’s not bring up playtimes and make anyone feel any sort of way but with over a decade of development, there will be something you can do. You can fish, you can hunt, you can ride a hoverboard, you can dance. Most of those things are just Open world things, but Warframe also has standard randomized tileset missions where premade tiles are laid out by way of some algorithm to make every mission unique while being built out of pieces you can become incredibly familiar with.

      Beyond this, now that Cross Play and more importantly, cross save/progression is active you will have so many sweaty vets willing to help you on your platform (the Deck) and from other platforms like switch, PS4/5, and Xbone/Series.

      If anyone feels interested in this game, definitely dip your toes and just take it slow. No need to rush things since you can always just take a break and try something else while things are building.

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          You never have to pay a cent. The game may still let new players believe that gear is locked behind a paywall but most items in the market have blueprints that you build by gathering materials in game and then waiting.

          The things you can’t buy blueprints for from the in game market are usually from clans which should be free to join (i.e., if someone is demanding you pay them for joining find a better clan) or earned in game during missions.

          To be fair it has been a while since I was buying new weapons in the market because I am near level cap so I’m not sure how prominent the “Buy Blueprint” option is compared to the “spend premium currency” option but they did revise those screens to make it more apparent that real money doesn’t need to change hands

          That being said, if you wanna drop a few thousand I’m sure you can buy every available cosmetic, all the available weapons, all the available characters, the supporters packs, the prime access that’s currently available, etc. I made my first purchase at like 500 hours and that was because I really felt they were improving the product better than some Triple A titles were at the time.

          Stop by Dormi.zone to see what fans of the series are saying here on Lemmy. Afaik we aren’t sanctioned by Digital Extremes but we haven’t hit the critical mass of other websites yet so they don’t see fit to pay developers to watch these boards.

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      Playing this myself in anticipation of the upcoming expansion adding skill customization.

      Plays well on the Deck, plus mods are great to help make some of the grind even better (I’m loving the lazy writ crafting mod).

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    If you’re fine with any genre, I’ve found Survivorlikes to be a good bit of time killing fun on the Deck. Vampire Survivor is the obvious choice, but Halls of Torment is a much more polished interpretation with the look and feel of classic dungeon crawlers like Diablo.

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    How do you define grind? I went from zero to sixty hours in Rimworld in the span of a few weeks and IMO it plays quite well on the deck (not perfect, but surprisingly well for a traditionally M&K PC game).

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    GregTech: New Horizons (A minecraft modpack) should keep you busy for… about 8000 hours?