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.

Power Tools is *essential* to a good emulation performance on harder to emulate system like Switch, Wii and GameCube

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

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.

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 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.

Super helpful because I don’t want to download a bunch of plugins I won’t use!

Today we rank the standard metric combination wrench set. I don't find myself using the 9mm alot so F tier.

Going to give Decky Roulette a try as I get bored playing the same games. Probably going to be S-tier for me :)

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!

Rarely comment, like and subscribe on KZfaq. 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.

Just got the Steam Deck, and this is a great list to make use of. Thanks!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cool boom sound effects! Keep it up!

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!

It would be greatly appreciated if you could link these plugins on your description like most youtubers

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.

Not trying to be rude but it was really hard to focus on this video when yOuRe taLkIng LiKe tHIs

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.

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!

Aloha and thank you for the video! Very helpful! Looking forward to more of your content! Subbed

Once again what a helpful video Tech stew knows how to stew and serve up tech proper Delicious video Compliments to the chef

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

Very nice work 👍 New French 🥖 supporter here 😁

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.

All around, great video!!

Wow, so many i hadnt heard of. Thanks!

Animation changer got absolutely shafted because he didn't know you can skip the intro by just pressing a button

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

You SD looks awesome, can you share what skin are you using?

As a user since launch, I have made a grave mistake in not downloading alot of these. Time to download them onto the LE.

I cant find vibrant deck

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

Power tools after overclocking, undervolting and raising the tdp to 20 watts is the best tool for me.

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.

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

The explosion each time you add something to the list was fine the first time… then very annoying after

Must have HLTB is F and Decky Roullete is B. Nice bite for the comments, it did work.

I saw my Ant-Man Quantumania boot animation for a second! Lol

I need to know where you got that skin from. It looks great

I've got to disagree on CSS loader, instant S tier.

Great video! I would love to know what skin you're using, i love it!

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.

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.

love the quality of the video and the thorough representation of each plugin here! Deserves way more views and subscribers for sure!

I do feel that desktop steam needs some of these plugins also

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

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.

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.

Nice sound effect for the F

100% agree with vibrant. It is the only one I installed.

your steam deck looks so nice, is it a skin?

People say vibrant deck drains too much battery

This should not have been a “tier list” video but a “top x plug-ins for steamdeck”

HLTB done dirty right out the gate 😞

So Vibrant Deck is no longer there?

Storage Cleaner is less important now than it was because Steam now uninstalls shader caches when you uninstall the game. Previously it did not.

If nothing else, GridDB is the only must install one

For whatever reason the animation plug-in has been screwing up launching games recently

Cool video thank uuu

Im looking up decky recorderd and i don't see it to install anyone having that problem?

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.

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?

What was the plugin where you could rearrange the library layout?

Decky settings looks like it's back

What game were you playing when you first showed off Decky Recorder?

I know a lot of people asking him, but can someone tell me where he got his skin? I can't find it.

Where did get that steam deck skin?

I couldn't play Elden Ring with decky loader active, has that been fixed?

Can vibrant deck be used on the oled to make the colors pop more. ?

What is the name of the shell on his steam Deck? Where can i find it?

Bro ranked roulette and css loader the same 💀

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!

HLTB is S tier if you have kids/limited free time

How many times does he say Super?

Hey! What’s the name of the skin on the deck? I want to buy one

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!

There Is a plugin for use browser in game Just like steam in not big picture mode?😊

I need that shell case. Where can I get it?

You can skip boot animation😅

For me miss the Wine, but not enough for a Fortnite (easy anticheat not work)

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.

Where'd you get that deck case

Was Vibrant Deck removed?

I just downloaded decky. But I can't find vibrantDeck in the store. It has been removed??

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 :)

HLTB at F Tier is a travesty

Great thanks

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

Free games usually suck that why they are free

Give me your totk skin

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.

HLTB definitely seems useless.

there is a super smash brawl sound pack its absolute gold fits perfect