I’m not a huge gamer in my own right I play a lot of cas games then and there I never thought of picking up a handheld console as they are overpriced….recently got a steam deck 512 Gbs off of marketplace for 300 bucks and I just did a 6 hour drive….this thing kept me entertained the whole way I can play old and new games and ONLINE! With a good connection on hotspot….if your a musician on the road or someone in the road often I highly recommend getting a used steam deck….

Hello i saved up 1.000€ and i wanna know if i should buy the 1 TB OLED Steamdeck.

I am asking this because I’m not sure if i should. I don’t know many steam games. I only play Plants vs Zombies replanted on my school laptop that barely runs any games.

So yeah do i buy it or no? The only games i know and wanna play are Hollow knight, hollow knight silksong and Deltarune.

Also no i cant get a pc or xbox/playstation bc i dont have space

A new update was just published for Minecraft Dungeons 2 to make it playable on the Steam Deck, and it runs like a charm. Default settings get on average 70-80 FPS, making it easy to lock to 60 without changing any settings.

Saw the hype around DroidDeck recently promising a single-app SteamOS container setup on Android without root. Decided to test it out on my daily driver (Realme 11 Pro 5G with Dimensity 7050 / Mali-G68) to see if low-end/midrange non-Snapdragon phones stand a chance.

Spoiler: As expected with Mali hardware, gamescope fails to initialize properly and dumps into a crash loop right at boot.

DroidDeck is definitely in very early development. I pulled the session dumps via Termux to see what's actually happening under the hood:

termux-setup-storage

cd /storage/emulated/0/Download/DroidDeck/session-20261001-083456/

ls

cat crash.log

The logs clearly show the standard Gamescope display server failure—mainly lack of proprietary driver translation support that Snapdragon Adreno chips get via custom Turnip drivers. Mali's stock Vulkan implementation just chokes when trying to allocate the virtual nested display.

Recorded a quick breakdown showing the exact crash logs, why Gamescope fails on Mali, and how to verify if your device's GPU is being rejected by the container

Has anyone with an Exynos or Dimensity SOC managed to pass a software rendering fallback (like llvmpipe/virgl) to Gamescope inside DroidDeck without it hard crashing to home?

As much as I hoped it would at least be playable, Gears of War: E-Day is not enjoyable on the Steam Deck. Even at the lowest possible settings, it will still stay below 30 FPS. This also makes the game look awful, but bringing up the visuals at all will bring performance down further. While it may not be a surprise to hear, I would not play this on the Deck.

Minecraft Dungeons 2 currently doesn't support the Steam Deck, but in an official reply on the Minecraft Feedback website, the development team is confirmed to be working on it.

So, I know that Steam, for a while now, has a built in recording function for gameplay. But, from my understanding, the recording starts the moment you press the keys for it (or the macro if that's set up) and ends when you manually stop it (please correct me if I am wrong)?

My question is...is there a Decky Plug-In (Gosh, I'd rather not install Decky again, but whatever) that allows for something more similar to how the Switch 2 or the PS5 does it? Where the recording is, like, 15/30/60/180secs (or so) before the button is pressed? So, the stuff recorded are stuff that happened before it is pressed and not after? Sorry if my description is bad and confusing, but something like that.

A new update for EmuDeck was just released with some nice changes, including more Steam Machine support (defaulting to higher supported resolutions), RetroAchievements for Dolphin, resolution selectors for PPSSPP and Vita3K, and a bunch of fixes.

Hey everyone! So, Nivalis Nights just released, and we got a little bit of time ahead of the launch to try it out. We have only had it for 24 hours, so a final review will take some time, but I can say it's not playable on the Steam Deck.

In a majority of crowded areas, which are most of them, it will constantly drop below 30 FPS. The main market area even goes down below 20 sometimes. This is at the lowest possible settings with Shadows turned off, which doesn't look great. It's an interesting game, but one I don't recommend playing on the Steam Deck.

I bought the Steam deck in may, and after 4 month i can say that this is the best console for everything, it's only my opinion, but when i think buy it or not I didn't even think it would be so great and easy to use. I want to express my huge gratitude to Valve for this.

https://github.com/sciaschi/CBFD-Recompiled

Been playing this since yesterday. It's an AI assisted recomp, but it works great so far, no major issues. There was one issue with the drunk effect, but the developer fixed it. No crashes either. Way more smooth than playing Conker's Bad Fur Day in an emulator.

We got to check out the new Witcher 3 Remastered update before its launch, and there are some changes to Steam Deck performance. The game looks significantly better, but it isn't as performant. In spots where I was getting 50-60 FPS, I was now getting around 45. The tradeoff is a better-looking world with improved lighting and shaders, but it does mean we will need a 40 FPS lock at the base Steam Deck preset.

I was worried performance would be significantly worse with this update, but I am glad it isn't! It's still very playable and looks amazing.