Do you play more than before you got your deck?
Do you play the same kinds of games, or do you play different types of games now?
Do you still play at the same times or places, or have those changed?
Are there any other significant changes to your playing habits?
I do a lot of flying and travel for work and the Steam Deck has been fantastic for it. My gaming laptop can’t draw sufficient wattage from the airplane’s power outlets so I couldn’t use it for gaming in flight, so I needed another solution that wasn’t gaming on my phone (let’s face it, most mobile games suck).
The Steam Deck gives me that extra versatility when traveling. I find myself playing games that I wouldn’t otherwise normally play due to the control scheme. I’m mainly a keyboard and mouse user so adapting to a controller for most things was a bit of a learning curve, but it’s much easier when playing games well suited for it (Ace Combat 7, American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2, FEZ). My favorite though so far has been Grim Fandango Remastered. The controls are so intuitive that it’s like the game was custom made for the Deck (despite the original being two decades old).
I haven’t really played FPS even though there’s a gyroscopic control scheme available, I miss the precision that the mouse enables. Hack and slash in TES 4 Oblivion works well though, but not really with bow and arrow shooting.
I also couldn’t really do RTS for the same reason, even with the track pad like functionality.
It’s great though for side scrollers, isometric RPGs, third person action adventure games, driving games, and simulators.
Can I recommend a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for rts and 4x games? Even low twitch fps’s (satisfactory) work really well on the deck with m+kb, and they’ve made some pretty low profile keyboards to work with the deck, just need a stand to put it on.
I’m interested!
This, the Deck is a godsend on those longer flights where I would be using the switch, but it can’t run current-gen games. And also, emulation. Nintendo devices are in a constant back and forth with people looking for exploits, the Deck just says “You want to run a PS2 in this bitch, here’s the pcsx2 flatpak and another that passes it through the Steam GUI with images so it looks like it fits in your library, I won’t ask where you got that ISO of King’s Field 4 if you don’t ask when Half-Life 3 is coming out, kthxbye!”