The Ultimate Steam Deck Plugin Tier List
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2023
- In this video we talk about Decky Loader. This is an App for the Steam Deck that allows you to install unique plugins to customize and/or make the Steam Deck more efficient. I test 24 different plugins and rank them in the order I feel they are most valuable to me. No doubt there will be some differing opinions but nevertheless I hope you all enjoy the video. SUBSCRIBE to my content for more tech related videos in the future. Thanks for watching!
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HLTB is an absolute S tier for me! I bought a deck to get through my library of my unplayed games and also HLTB shows the stats of all my emulated games to, really cool plug in.
Haha just goes to show you how subjective it is. Plugins have so much to offer it’s awesome!
Same. I have over 1800 games and 700 in my backlog. Using HLTB I've knocked out 30 smaller games this year. Maybe more. This plug in is so good I need it on my desktop ASAP.
@@Recon_19D3x Wow that is a ton of games!
@@StewdioGamer Yeah it is. It has some regrets lol. That's just Steam, not including consoles.
Was just coming down here to say this lol
Watching this the day before my steam deck comes in! Getting me real excited to see what i can do with these! Thanks for the video
I hope you love it! Congrats!
Tabmaster deserves a mention. It makes UI navigation way better especially if you want rabs for each system on emulation. Agree with griddb as S tier as well. Great video.
I’ll check it out!
Great video, I am surprised some of this plug-ins are not built into the OS already. I will be installing many of them. Thanks.
Thanks for watching 🙏. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Power Tools is *essential* to a good emulation performance on harder to emulate system like Switch, Wii and GameCube
I’m not doing much with emulation at the moment but can definitely see that as being very beneficial! Thanks for watching 🙏
How is it essential? I'm having trouble emulating zelda totk. It stutters and after a short time not moving in game, it runs flawless. If I move again for more than 3-5 meters it drops to 15fps until it gets smooth again after a few seconds. You got any tips which settings could increase performance using powertools?
have you tried lowering gpu performance? emulation is very cpu intensive so lowering gpu usage can help give the cpu that extra kick it needs@@patrickhentschke6542
Rarely comment, like and subscribe on UA-cam. As aomeone who has been a PC gamer for decades, but getting a Linux based device, this video has helped me immensely on deciding what I want/need to do to my deck. Also, props for taking criticism in the comments the way that you did. S Tier Video brother.
Thanks for the kind comment! I’m glad you found value in the video. As long as comments are respectful I don’t have problems with criticism or corrections. I’m human I get it wrong sometimes 😂
HLTB should be way higher. It Functions perfectly. Lets You know if a game is too damn long to play, roughly how far your into a game. Very Useful
It does seem to be a popular one in the comments. Thanks for watching!
Arguably even more so, if a game is too short. I’ve bought my fair share of games before going on a trip, only to finish them all in a few hours before my destination. HLTB has saved me from that 😅
Wow, so many i hadnt heard of. Thanks!
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Aloha and thank you for the video! Very helpful! Looking forward to more of your content! Subbed
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video. More coming soon 🤩
Just got the Steam Deck, and this is a great list to make use of. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it.
Cool boom sound effects! Keep it up!
Hahaha probably overboard but it was amusing to me so why not. Thanks for watching!
Super helpful because I don’t want to download a bunch of plugins I won’t use!
Glad you found the video helpful!
All around, great video!!
Thank you!
Once again what a helpful video
Tech stew knows how to stew and serve up tech proper
Delicious video
Compliments to the chef
Thanks I appreciate the kind comments! Glad you enjoyed it.
Going to give Decky Roulette a try as I get bored playing the same games. Probably going to be S-tier for me :)
Haha I hope you like it! Definitely nice to switch things up for sure.
love the quality of the video and the thorough representation of each plugin here! Deserves way more views and subscribers for sure!
Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it! Welcome!
Great video! New steamdeck owner and excited to give most of these an install. I def appreciate your video and script/commentary when showing the deck but you sound very robotic when you show the face cam! Not trying to hate in the slightest just giving you some feedback! Thanks for the video, subbed now!
Thanks for the feedback I’m still not comfortable in front of the camera but working on it. Glad you liked the video though I appreciate the kind comment!
I just recently bought my Steam deck last week. I got the 64GB and upgraded it to a 2TB SSD. Really glad YT recommends me these videos because I'm still finding new stuff it can do. Best purchase I ever made.
Congratulations on your new steam deck. Nice upgrade going with the 2TB that’s awesome!
@@StewdioGamer Thanks, I also plan on getting the screen from ifixit. They have a kit for replacing the entire screen for $80. It's the amti-glare screen because the 64GB model has a regular IPS display.
@@AgentNibblesnot worth it imo, i put a anti glare tempered glass screen protector and it’s perfect. I did the same storage upgrade as you and also a 1tb micro sd card.. for the screen just up the saturation with vibrantdeck… it’s a fact 720p for a handheld is actually very very good. It’s not a monitor or tv
@@user-hh4hc2lt6e Ya I ended up just buying the anti-glare screen protector.
Very nice work 👍
New French 🥖 supporter here 😁
Thank you! It was fun to make so I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I spend about 3% of my time in gaming mode and the other 97% in desktop mode because I play OSRS and mainly only OSRS. See, I got an EXTREMELY phenomenal deal on my deck. It was a used deck that my friend didn’t want anymore as he already had the Deck OLED ordered. Got my deck for $100, and it runs OSRS with the 117 HD plugin PHENOMENALLY well, no frame drops except sometimes randomly at the Grand Exchange. For me, the Steam Deck is basically just an extremely cheap but very powerful (for the price I paid) for my PC which I’m saving up for. I genuinely got extremely lucky. Thank you Gordon!
OSRS?
I’m confused by some of your comment but glad you are enjoying your Steam Deck! Thanks for watching!
@@CyberLink70 old school rune scape
well yea, osrs can run on a potato
@@wulf2863 try playing on Mac, it runs at 4fps on a good day
What game were you playing when you first showed off Decky Recorder?
Today we rank the standard metric combination wrench set.
I don't find myself using the 9mm alot so F tier.
Great video for teaching me about all these plugins, although I disagree with placement (to each his own) but I feel like HLTB is a great website and I can only imagine having that data easily accessible being a godsend for helping me with my backlog. I'm getting the steam deck today according to FedEx. DeckFaqs also sounds super helpful, it looks like it pulls from GameFaqs, so hopefully its easy to pull up for Emulated games because I know they have a lot of FAQs for retro stuff there. Maybe not new stuff as much which is why you aren't as into it.
Glad you were able to find some value out of it! Congratulations on your new steam deck too!
Mangopeel! I like to keep track of data and temperatures etc. And have control over the size and what's shown within. I have fps,cpu and cpu temperatures, gpu and gpu temp. Ram and vram usage. Plus more. Made half the size and also being transparent. It's so much better than the original! Fits just right after a bit of playing around along the top.
That’s a good one! I’m not sure when that one came about but that’s a good recommendation.
My two favorite plugins no longer work :( emuchievements and steamless times. I really liked seeing achievement progress and time played on my non steam games since I emulate a lot
As someone that can see why vibrantdeck might be one of the best deck plug-ins out there...I do play with nightmode tint turned on after 8pm, which would deactivate if i were to install this. And that's also when I do most of my gaming anyway sooo 😂
Yeah but CSSLoader and DB badges are my favorites right now!
Haha yeah that would negate the need for it. CSSLoader is one I think I could have ranked higher so I’m definitely revisiting that one!
You SD looks awesome, can you share what skin are you using?
It’s the limited edition Zelda Tears of the kingdom skin that came out from dbrand after the game launched. I think they are sold out now unfortunately.
Cool video thank uuu
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Steamgriddb is my favorite plugin because it makes non-steam games art management so much easier. I could not get Metadeck to work. I have a lot of non-steam games (EGS, B-net, GOG, etc...) and it doesn't update the meta for the games I have.
SteamGridDB is great! Sorry to hear about your experience with MetaDeck. I don’t have a lot of non steam games other than emulation and it seems to work well for those.
Great video! I would love to know what skin you're using, i love it!
It’s the legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom skin from Dbrand. It was a limited edition skin.
@@StewdioGamer Bummer. Thanks for the response!
Steamback is a good plugin to look into... as you may come across a game at some point that fudges up the save because of a bug. You can restore saves from previous sessions, with the caveat that you had to have successfully exited the game at some point for the backup to occur.
Thanks for he suggestion. I will look into this one.
@@StewdioGamer I do need to throw in another caveat that I just discovered. It doesn't support all games..
@@caspearious-ghost I'll take a look at it. Might just get better with time!
Power tools after overclocking, undervolting and raising the tdp to 20 watts is the best tool for me.
I’ve been playing around with power tools a lot more recently. It’s definitely got it’s upside if you know what you’re doing.
S tier for sure. The best plugin hands down bar none is the steamdeckgrid DB. Changing the artwork images for your games is CLUTCH.. best tool hands down.
Definitely a favorite!
"Clutch"? *It installs a manual car transmission?*
There Is a plugin for use browser in game Just like steam in not big picture mode?😊
Music control will be an S tier for me if there's an independent volume control. I have permanent ringing in my ears so whenever I use earbuds I need a static or rain sounds to mask it or it drives me nuts. Currently I just run a music player app in conjunction with whatever game I'm playing, but it's a tad clunky.
That's how you get tinitus
@@lilithius9410 maskings widely used to help alleviate tinnitus
@@lilithius9410they already have it....
I have tinnitus as well and it sucks. I also have to play ambient noise videos on UA-cam while I work to help me focus.
You can connect your phone to the steamdeck through bluetooth natively as a bt speaker
What was the game he playing while using the plugins?
Great video! For some reason in desktop mode whenever I try to click one of the desktop icons it highlights all of them. Trying to get this down please help! Thanks!
Thanks I’m glad you liked it. I honestly have not had that problem. A good resource for issues like this is Reddit. Tons of questions/answers like this there. I’ll look too.
I need to know where you got that skin from. It looks great
DBrand. It was their limited edition Zelda tears of the kingdom skin.
Was Vibrant Deck removed?
If I need to install a secondary installer/platform I don't even mess with the game if I can't get it on steam and just have it run after pressing play I will just not deal with.
As a user since launch, I have made a grave mistake in not downloading alot of these. Time to download them onto the LE.
Do it! Congrats on getting the LE.
@@StewdioGamer Thanks. Already love the changes. The haptics on the OLED give a ton more feedback thqn the original.
Power tools is S tier simply for the tdp limit. I use it on every game and it doubles or sometimes triples the normal battery. Also keeps the deck from sounding like a ps4 while playing amongus or some sh*t lmao
I’ve spent more time with this since the video. After comments people had made, I felt like this wasn’t given a fair chance. Currently using it to figure out the best settings for Starfield. Ha!
I do feel that desktop steam needs some of these plugins also
Great thanks
Im looking up decky recorderd and i don't see it to install anyone having that problem?
Can vibrant deck be used on the oled to make the colors pop more. ?
I’ll try it out. Just got the OLED model but haven’t downloaded decky loader yet. My assumption is it wouldn’t make much difference. I’ve seen other posts recently saying vibrantdeck is removed? I’ll have to check.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could link these plugins on your description like most youtubers
If you download decky loader you can easily find them there.
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It's funny how the main reason I installed decky loader was for the HLTB feature and that was the first thing I installed, and you put it directly into the worst tier 😭 xD
Haha maybe it’s just my fault for not using it more. I think it’s the one people disagreed with the most 🤷♂️ . Thanks for watching anyways!
@@StewdioGamer At least for me, the reason I wanted it so much is because I’m more of a multiplayer/competitive gamer, and want to know how long it’ll take to finish a game before I get tired/bored of it, so it helps me play story mode/solo games. Great video btw, it helped me see how many plugins there are (or at least the most useful ones) and their functionality as I just got my Steam Deck and couldn’t be asked to try all of them out.
@@RayoCochise That makes sense. Thanks! I’m glad you got some insight from it.
I saw my Ant-Man Quantumania boot animation for a second! Lol
Very cool! I chose the elden ring one just because I’m so heavily invested in that game right now.
Nice sound effect for the F
Thanks! The explosion is a little ridiculous but hell why not.
Here's a tip, with proton DB badges, If you have a non-steam game that has a steam version it will also show the proton DB badge for it. I noticed this when I had a few emulated games that also had a PC version, like tunic
That’s a great tip thank you!
Not trying to be rude but it was really hard to focus on this video when yOuRe taLkIng LiKe tHIs
I’m not sure what you mean by this… I am reading from a script. I’m not one of those that can just wing it 😂😂 . Thanks for the feedback though.
@@StewdioGamer You upspeak a lot throughout the video
@@ApolloMclarenIm sure it’ll go away as he gets more comfortable. It does feel like he’s changing his inflection randomly lmao
Can’t find vibrant deck in the store anymore. :(
You also don’t mention the best thing about autosuspend. It prevents a hard shutdown and puts the deck to sleep instead. = no lost progress or work. Installed and love it ever since I lost my game progress due to the battery dying. Should have been a default steamos option so I think this is S tier as well.
Good recommendation! Thanks for watching I appreciate the comment.
I couldn't play Elden Ring with decky loader active, has that been fixed?
I’ve had no problems with it so I guess so
What is the name of the shell on his steam Deck? Where can i find it?
It’s a limited edition skin from dbrand
As someone who really wants a sd, but has yet to buy one. Whats reccoomended. Buy the 512 or buy the 64 and swap the emmc out straight away.
I would take a look at the SSD swap tutorial that ifixit has out there. If it sounds easy enough for you to do than go the 64GB route and upgrade your SSD to something bigger. 1TB can be had pretty cheap. Otherwise just go with the 512GB and if you fill it up buy a MicroSD to use.
@@StewdioGamer so if competent at swapping parts the 64 is the better bet. 😁 cool beans
What was the plugin where you could rearrange the library layout?
Are you talking about changing the artwork? SteamgridDB was where I was changing the box art. CSS Loader I used to change the game tiles from square to round (tons of other options for that one too).
@@StewdioGamer Its not that, there was a plugin where you could change the layout of the library. You could move "non- Steam" which is currently at the far right to to wherever you wanted. you could rearrange the to "folders" to any order.
tabmaster..
I cant find vibrant deck
Animation changer got absolutely shafted because he didn't know you can skip the intro by just pressing a button
I’ve already commented on something similar. Defeats the purpose.
The explosion each time you add something to the list was fine the first time… then very annoying after
Thanks for the feedback. No explosions in the future LOL
If nothing else, GridDB is the only must install one
While every one can say they love free games. There is also a thing called standards. Which means no Epic Games will ever dwell in my steam library.
That is assuming they don't buy up someone that has all ready made a game I have purchased threw steam.
Makes sense. I think you can only buy Alan wake 2 from the epic games store. That’s a bummer I’m interested in that one.
They killed fall guys for me. Very pissed about that
Hey! What’s the name of the skin on the deck? I want to buy one
It was a limited edition Zelda TOTK skin
I need that shell case. Where can I get it?
It was a limited edition skin from dbrand.
So Vibrant Deck is no longer there?
I haven’t checked yet but I’ve read it’s not there. Weird though. Maybe because of the steam OS 3.5 update? No idea.
DeckMTP is a useful plug in for transsfering files to your steam deck. It allows you to connect yout steam deci directly to your PC for transfering files.
Its useful since windows cant read the ext4 formatted SD card. Makes it easy to transfer files.
Someone else was asking for the name of this one too. I’ll pass that along. I’m just using a USB-C flash drive but I’ve had no problems so far for my use case.
Where did get that steam deck skin?
Dbrand limited edition drop for Zelda TOTK.
your steam deck looks so nice, is it a skin?
Thank you! Yes it’s the Zelda TOTK skin from Dbrand. Way overpriced but very cool looking.
Where'd you get that deck case
Dbrand. Limited edition.
Must have HLTB is F and Decky Roullete is B. Nice bite for the comments, it did work.
Wasn't on purpose. I was genuinely shocked at how many people love HLTB.
I just downloaded decky. But I can't find vibrantDeck in the store. It has been removed??
Try going to your decky> the setting icon > store icon > testing
@@stalliontheehottie Nothing :(
I know a lot of people asking him, but can someone tell me where he got his skin? I can't find it.
It’s from DBrand. When Zelda Tears of the Kingdom came out they started selling it. It was a limited edition skin so not sure if they are still selling it.
@@StewdioGamer ohh, makes sense. Thanks for your response!
100% agree with vibrant. It is the only one I installed.
Nice! Yeah I love it. Simple but worthwhile.
I've got to disagree on CSS loader, instant S tier.
There are a couple here that in hindsight could be higher. Thanks for watching and your comment!
Stopped watching the video when power tools wasn't in S tier😂. It's an absolute must for some games to work at its fullest potential, emulators need it for sure
Haha yeah Power Tools and HLTB didn’t sit well with people. Thanks for attempting to watch anyways 😂
there is a super smash brawl sound pack its absolute gold fits perfect
I caught belle being an E Tier in the beginning of the video and just can’t fathom it
What's a plug in that Turns your steam deck into a drive on your computer?
No idea haven’t used that one. What is a use case for doing that even?
@techstewart so like if you need to transfer roms and what not from your pc it turns the steamdeck into a litter drive on your pc
@@SocialistDog got it. I’m using a USB Type-C flash drive for moving roms. They can be had cheap on Amazon for typically under $20 if that helps at all.
Theoretically deckMTP but it doesn't work I think
Power tools has to be S, I can't tell you how many games I boot up, and they ramp up the CPU clock for no reason, lock it down a legit 1ghz (2.4ghz) and watch your battery life jump up by almost an hour and your thermals drop 5 or more degrees.
Going to personally play with this more for sure. I’ve had a couple of comments about this. Thanks for the feedback!
For me miss the Wine, but not enough for a Fortnite (easy anticheat not work)
Storage Cleaner is less important now than it was because Steam now uninstalls shader caches when you uninstall the game. Previously it did not.
Good to know! I haven’t uninstalled any games yet but that’s helpful thank you.
Valve has always cleared the cache after uninstalling games, at least over the past year or so. Storage Cleaner is most useful to clear up cache for games that you want to keep installed but arent playing at the moment and will come back to at a later time. Super useful for me. I get bored and move from game to game and i dont want to have to reinstall every time.
People say vibrant deck drains too much battery
It does but I think your settings will impact your battery life more.
HLTB done dirty right out the gate 😞
Haha to each their own I guess.
For whatever reason the animation plug-in has been screwing up launching games recently
Oh really? I haven’t had that problem so hopefully someone else can chime in if they have.
Decky settings looks like it's back
Nice! About time.
This should not have been a “tier list” video but a “top x plug-ins for steamdeck”
If that was the case I would have just chose 5-10 and called it a day. But there are a lot of other videos like that already so this was just an idea to do something different.
Interesting choices and even though my ranking would be exactly opposite, I enjoyed watching it.
HLTB is essential for me to avoid Ubisoft-Formula games that take forever to finish only to waste my time - but I could not care less for recording my gameplay or faking an oled which doesn't look like an oled because it ain't an oled screen :)
To each their own 😁. Glad you enjoyed the video though!
Maaaan... You totally forget Memory Deck! It is CheatEngine analogue for Deck. And it is totally S-tier for anyone who likes to cheat in single player games!
I’ll be honest I have not used that one but I’ll check it out!
HLTB is S tier if you have kids/limited free time
I can see that
Bro ranked roulette and css loader the same 💀
Sure did! I like them both equally. Maybe a slight edge to css loader.
@@StewdioGamer i really don't understand how people find roulette a usefull plugin. A matter of taste I guess
@@azorsa8988 definitely by preference
How many times does he say Super?
As many times as I feel like it 😂
Lol
You can skip boot animation😅
Very true but if I wanted to skip it I probably wouldn’t change it in the first place
@chariothe9013
It's good to see you yet again!
(Not the most recent video, but I have a lot of catching up to do)
@@Sherolox I'm replaying Trails from Zero in Japanese, probably gotta take whole lot of time.
@@chariothe9013
It's actually one of my life-time goals to learn Japanese, so I can play the entirety of Kiseki in the original script.
Some things might just be lost in translation or badly translated.
At this point in time I do wonder when I'll even begin Zero, haha.
I just had to buy Persona 5 Royal on Steam Summer sale...
But I imagine you must really love Zero.
Is it your favorite so far?
HLTB at F Tier is a travesty
So I’ve been told haha. I think that one is definitely the one people are upset about the most for sure.
This sounds like complete gibberish to me because I don't even have a steam deck I'm thinking about buying one though. See I don't even know what a steam deck plugin is.
Sorry to hear that 😂. Get you a steam deck!
Please put the list in the comments or annotations 😭
when you don;t look at the camera, it takes away from the experience of the video
I’m not sure what you mean by this. It was intentional. I personally think it’s fine but thanks for the feedback.
Most blokes on their list go all the way up to A. But I ask you, where can they go from there? Nowhere! Well this fella can, he takes it all the way up to S.
I think this is a compliment so I’ll take it. Just trying to do something fun and different. Other UA-camrs have videos about plugins just trying to put a spin on it.
Every single tier list in existence has an S Tier level...
Give me your totk skin
It’s nice right?! Love it so far.
Free games usually suck that why they are free
But it’s free… if you don’t like it ignore it 😁. What you think sucks might not suck for someone else.
HLTB definitely seems useless.
It definitely has some love from people in the comments. I can see it’s benefit but I just don’t use it much.