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Steamdeck or.... (self.games)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by potate to c/[email protected]

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Looking for some advice. My Switch Lite is approaching the end of its life and given that a Switch 2 is basically the same price as an OLED Steamdeck I was thinking it might be a good time to jump back to PC gaming.

I'm not much of a gamer. I got the Switch Lite because of portability and the ability to wake it up, play for ten minutes and then toss it back in my bag. My only beefs with the Switch ecosystem is that you can't download DLC - for Cities Skylines I have the bare game on Switch but a pile of DLC on my laptop for example.

So - would going with a Steamdeck make sense? Any gotchas I should know about? Is there a better option?

Thanks all!

**edit: y'all rock. I'm ordering an OLED Steamdeck

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Biased because I'm pro steam deck, but yes, Steam Deck will offer you the full steam library of games, on top of games from other platforms / consoles through emulation

This was the main selling point for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Steam Deck will offer you the full steam library of games

*some exclusions apply.

Of my nearly 300 games in my library, 36 are fully steam deck certified. While another ~70 have some layer of compatibility. Leaving almost 1/3rd of my library not usable on the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

1/3 sounds high. Just because it isn't verified doesn't mean it won't work, and most of the non-anti-cheat-related compatibility problems are solved by installing Proton GE.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I have had a really good experience with Unknown and even Unsupported. Proton just works really well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

I usually check protondb for more detailed data on games compatibility https://www.protondb.com/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's very surprising. Is your library chiefly old DOS games or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

No, all of my MS-DOS games are through GOG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Some games that say not supported actually work fine. I was disappointed to not be able to play some older games like Jedi Academy, but I installed it, set a community made controller mapping, and it works with zero issues.

Sure there are some games that don't work, but a lot more do than just the ones that are steam deck certified / playable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

"Deck verified" is an absolutely useless metric and very often wrong. I pay no attention to them and neither should you.