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I wouldn’t get a case for the sake of protection but I’m more than happy with my Dbrand Kill Switch case due to its added usability. The kickstand is a must for me when placing a powered on Steam Deck on soft items such as pillows not to block the air vents. Being able to put the cover on and leave Steam Deck standing upright saves unreal amount of space on my desk compared to how it was before. If you’d rather go with something slimmer, there is also Deckmate.

Oh, that’s amazing to hear! I prefer the design of RetroDECK over Emudeck a lot, so I’m more than happy to migrate back then.

From my experience Retrodeck tends to lose the config files a lot during updates. So far I’m yet to experience that with Emudeck.

EDIT: Apparently it was a bug and it’s been fixed almost a year ago, see the dev reply below. Don’t let my comment discourage you from choosing RetroDECK!

I’d argue at this point it’s merely “a PC formerly known as Steam Deck”.

That’s a question that occurred to me during this discussion too. Please ping me if you’d get an answer. I’m not a Nintendo person, so I’m not sure where to even start researching that.

It is, but so is Windows. There is also a barely visible small text about it, right next to the trademark and copyright information nobody reads. It’s quite well hidden.

Is there even such a filter? There is a filter for singleplayer/multiplayer but it’s not the same thing. There are plenty of games that won’t even start offline or the singleplayer experience is severely degraded without a good reason. The modern Hitman trilogy comes to mind. There is no way to filter for that.

At the very least there should be a separate category for games verified to work offline. It would be easier to tolerate if it was a generic Proton compatibility rating, but it’s not, it’s a rating for how well it works on this handheld.

A hotspot is hardly a solution. If I’d be willing to drain my phone battery in travel, gaming on a phone is an option too. For me saving the phone battery is one of the primary advantages of a dedicated gaming device.

Hot take: a game shouldn’t be considered fully verified unless it can be played offline. It’s a bloody handheld, I want to play on it while traveling!

I’m not OP but I definitely don’t like the DRG battlepass. I don’t hate it, but I’m neutral towards it at very best. I’d rather just have this content as part of a regular game progression.