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Another month is done and dusted, so here's your run over the most popular games on Steam Deck for April 2026. No real surprises for what's in the top.

It was of course going to be Slay the Spire 2 and Vampire Crawlers wasn't it? Two absolute smash-hit indie games that run great and have a reasonable price. For this month there's a few newly released games making the list including Vampire Crawlers, RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike, MOUSE: P.I. For Hire, PRAGMATA, REPLACED and Windrose.

Hopefully soon we'll see Valve able to get more Steam Decks shipped out into your hands, as it's still constantly out of stock in most places.

Here's the top 50 from Valve's data between April 2 - May 1.

I finally kicked the ARC Raiders habit! But, I've still had Overwatch hook its teeth right into me, with far too many hours in it recently than I care to admit as it runs so nicely on Linux platforms nowadays. The newer character Sierra is a lot of fun to jump around with. And, with family that play, it's a great time to play online with others.

The recently released TerraTech Legion is another great choice though, building a modular vehicle in it is so much fun to smash through the hordes.

Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing the most recently?

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CatKiller 3 hours ago
Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing the most recently?
I've mostly been playing Bloons TD6 on the Deck recently. Being able to do co-op on that with the little one when we had car trouble on a long journey was an absolute sanity saver.
Ehvis 1 hour ago
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Shapez 2 for the past week since it got its 1.0 release. Before that I was playing Modulus. And in between an occasional run with Slay the Spire 2. On Steam Deck I played precisely nothing!
nullzero 53 minutes ago
Nice to see that Graveyard Keeper managed to climb to the tops after the short "free to keep" discount on their announcement for the upcoming sequel

Love Vampire Crawlers, those cross-the-bridge & push-it-forward levels are devious.
Doktor-Mandrake 23 minutes ago
I recently finished the banjo kazooie recomp on deck, others I've been playing are

Forza Horizon 4
Outrun 2006 coast to coast (with community patches/fixes)
Seaman using flycast and the steamdecks built in mic
Vampire Survivors
tmtvl 3 minutes ago
DiRT Rally 2.0. Every time I think I'm starting to get the hang of it I end up bumping the side at Waimarama Point and spinning out or turning in too much for a sharp turn in Argentina and coming to a complete stop or flying straight into a tree in Finland. I once tried for 8 hours straight to get a good time on a Finnish stage, and it wasn't even one of the long ones.

It's a bit like Dark Souls but fun (just kidding, of course, there's a reason I have all achievements on Dark Souls 2 _and_ Scholar of the First Sin).
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