I had the most fun with Vampire Survivors - addictive, relatively short bursts, but suitable for longer sessions. Dirt cheap.

I also liked MultiVersus… before it became a micro-transaction filled abomination. The core gameplay loop is still great tho.

General recommendation: Pick single player games from 3-4 years ago and back. The ones you were really interested in when they came out, but did not yet get around to playing them. Due to their age, they are almost guaranteed to run well on Deck, and they provide hours upon hours of fun. That’s my strategy at least :)

Someone should tell them this isn’t the twentieth century anymore.

Yes, for you and me, this is useful information. But here is where I think, for less savvy users, even a blanket error would be really helpful, focusing on next steps the user can try.

Thanks for the tip, and yes, I can do that, I can check logs, but the point of my post is to have some information that a less experienced user can access and get a clue on what to try next.

BTW in the case of RE2remake, the solution was to switch the game to the beta branch, redownload it, then launch it again - it worked, but I only know this, because of a post on the Steam board of the game. Here is where a blanket error would come in handy (“try this, this, and this, then switch to beta and try that, etc.”), if there is absolutely no information about the nature of the error.

Space bar not pausing / unpausing a video and skipping half way down the comments

Yes! That’s the other one I forgot to mention! 😆

Indeed, this is on desktop. Curiously, on mobile, I don’t really have a problem with YouTube, apart from the infuriating length and abundance of ads.

Good points… But it’s even more bizarre, if you think about it: apparently the only person to never have used the YouTube player, is… the guy who designed it? What the…? 🫤