- Hades - The Cult of The Lamb - Disco Elysium - Thimbleweed Park
But I trust people here have many good things to add to the list!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/
Factorio - Dev team is currently in process using the knowledge gained from the Switch port to create a fully Deck verified version
- Nobility (Royalty)
- Belief systems (Ideology)
- Pregnancy, biotech and genetic modification (Biotech)
The game also has a pretty big modding community.
If you like sims you def are going to love it.
And if you happen to be interested in a deep dive into the game design principles behind Rimworld Tynan Sylvester (the designer/developer) wrote a entire book about it: https://tynansylvester.com/book/
Most of the uplay subscription games also support controller
You can run most of the games either locally on the deck, streamed from your desktop, or streamed from the internet
If you want to stream from your gaming PC, just start Steam on the gaming PC, login to the same account, and then your Steam Deck's "PLAY" buttons in the library should have drop-downs that let you select "STREAM" instead. It should work whether the host PC is running Windows or Linux or Mac, but of course you'll have a bigger library selection if the host is on Windows. (To be clear, the host PC can run any Windows game and stream it to Steam Deck running its default OS; no need to add Windows to the Steam Deck).
Yeah, I think you'd have to run Windows :( Even if the games were supported via Proton, I think (but I'm not sure) that Gamepass adds its own DRM layer.
If you do have a separate Windows machine though, streaming actually works very well... better than the Deck on its own... better graphics, way less heat/fan/battery life consumption (since the computer is doing all the hard work). I'd try if you haven't already.