Been thinking about getting a steam deck. Talk me in or out of it. I’ve got a desktop, but thinking something handheld would be good when I want to sit on the couch. What are your favorite and least favorite things about your steam deck?

  • Björn Tantau
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    102 years ago

    It was honestly a life saver for me. I got Long Covid and became increasingly bed bound. The Deck enabled me to somewhat keep me sanity by playing in bed.

    And that way I don’t have to fight with my kids over the desktop PC. Although they sometimes want the Deck for those games that play better with a gamepad.

    Simultaneous play also showed the dark side of Steam. Unless one of the devices is offline you cannot play two games from one Steam library at the same time. Luckily I also have many games on Battle.net, GOG and on my old discs, so I can easily move to another game in case of a clash.

    I’m currently playing Spider-Man Miles Morales and having a blast.

    • sharpiemarker
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      22 years ago

      We had issues with simultaneous play as well. So we ended up with 2 steam libraries and 2 gaming PCs.

    • @eximo@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      Put one of the steam instances into offline mode then you can play on 2 machines.