Steam Deck

almost every day for a year. my gaming pc often collects dust

I bought it rather than upgrading my gaming PC which I built back in 2016. So it's my primary gaming machine now. I use it every day.

Yeah, during work breaks or when chilling in the living room with my wife while she does her hobby stuff.

It's not my main machine by any stretch of the imagination but it does see regular use.

I exclusively use it. For most games it works great, for some games it doesn’t, but that’s fine for me.

If you've got kids and a partner, you can't go sit at your computer or take over the living room TV...

So, yeah, I use my Deck all the time. I take it with me on work and road trips but I'm always driving or working so it honestly gets most of it's use on the couch. Six feet from the much more powerful gaming PC and six feet from the living room media PC that can also play games. Hundreds of dollars of GPU in one room and hundreds of hours using the Deck instead.

I do not game as much as I used to a decade ago and my gaming laptop had been dead for a while. The deck helps me casually pick up gaming every now and then. I am more interested in single player games now.

My steam deck is my gaming device.

I play all kinds of games on it including strategy games like Beyond All Reason. With gyro it works totally fine.

Got the original not long after launch. Upgraded to OLED right around when it launched. I have some times when I don't play it, but not often. Recently I have even been playing some RTS games since I got the controls working fairly effectively. Some of the fun for me with the Deck is customizing the controls to make a game work that otherwise wouldn't. The Steam controller settings are in my opinion probably the most important feature that makes this work so well.

Many games I used to play on my Playstation I am now instead playing them natively on Deck. It's comfortable. I love handheld.

The game I've played most overall is American Truck Simulator. Also Vampite Survivor, tons of Emulation Station, Metal Gear Solid master collecetion, and more recently Halo MCC, and Warhammer games like Dawn of War 1, Space Marine, and Inquisitor.

Apparently I played over 75 hours in May. PlayTime Decky plugin.

My time and ability to game has led me to almost exclusively play on my steam deck, and I now game a lot more than I've gotten to in a decade.

For the past couple of years (I upgraded to the OLED) I've pretty much only purchased/played games that will play well on the SD.

I like many games that are really only suited to a bigger screen or mouse/keyboard, but not enough to get any of them, because I know I won't be able to play them consistently enough to even remember what was going on since I'd played last.

Long COVID tied me to my bed. The Deck is the only gaming device I can comfortably use there.

my steam deck is my main daily device. I use it for most stuff. I own consoles, but its just so much easier to use the deck cause I can keep everything in one place.

steam, emulation, I even use it for youtube. docked to my TV.

Currently, no. But I also haven't opened a game on my PC in months, since that time sadly has to go towards my Master's thesis. But ever since I got the deck, I have heavily used it. It's easier to pick up and put down than the same game on PC, so I just do (did) more frequently.

Use it every day. Being able to suspend and resume so smoothly usually makes it preferable to my main PC even if both are available. There are only a couple games (mostly hard fps) that I prefer to play on the PC instead.

I use mine pretty often. I mostly play retro and indie games. It's an amazing piece of kit.

I use mine all the time when I'm on vacation or otherwise out of town, and every once in a while when I'm at home. I was able to play almost anything I wanted to so far, though I find games like Factorio a bit cumbersome without a mouse/keyboard setup. Bought the original 256gb deck on launch.

Daily and by that 2-3 hours a day.

I bought it instead of that Portal for the PS5 so as to stream games from my PlayStation so the family could share the TV but I found I am now just buying games for it (the Deck) solely and not using the PS5 anymore.

I just have it hooked up to the dock and play it on my TV mostly like a portable itty bitty PC. I have an Xbox controller and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse so I can play basically anything but fallout 4 since they thought it would be hilarious to remove menu prompts from that game when you use the deck on a TV. No idea why but yeah I can do most stuff with it so I do.

Twice a week maybe three times in bed, when my hands hurt too much to play on normal controllers.

Or my body hurts too much to play at my desk/chair.

I hate my weak AF 38 year old Fibromyalgia body. 🥹

Best thing is, I just stream my PC > Deck so technically utilizing my beefy 7950x 7900xtx system.

• Moonlight

• Sunshine

  "I game on Bazzite on my PC BTW."

WoW Classic Cataclysm is a dumpster fire....but at least I can enjoy it with ConsolePort. 🎮

I use it to game when I visit my mom but I don't use it at home. So it depends on how often I visit my mom :D

I just plugged it to my TV to remote play GoW on a big screen.

No other device can pull this off with 4k Stream, HDR, Surround Sound, full DualSense support and sub-1 frame (of 60) latency.

I'm at a very "play for couples minutes when and where I have time" phase of life. So my gaming is almost 100% on my SteamDeck.

I’m the same: I used it a ton when I first got it and now it’s collecting dust. Here are my personal issues with it:

• I find it a little too big and bulky for 2D, retro, and lo fi games, but too low res and weak for a good experience on most larger/newer 3D games.
• The controls and screen size/res are not adequate for most PC mkb oriented games.
• The size, battery life, and low screen visibility in bright places make it not worth traveling with compared to my Switch.

I guess I essentially just wanted a Switch that could use my Steam library for 2D indies and older games.

Aside from that, I think I also kinda bought it to rejuvenate my interest in gaming, but it only did that for a few months. That has nothing to do with the Deck though.

I don't have a room that would justify a desk. I use the SD daily and it's faster than my other options anyway.

I plug mine into a hub with hdmi and ethernet to use it for desktop gaming, and then use it as a handheld whenever I need to go on a trip. The performance is definitely... unusable in many games on the 1440p display I have it hooked up to, but I don't mind running games at a lower resolution or with FSR.

I use mine a ton. I actually prefer it (or Switch) for 90% of games. I have a PS5 and gaming PC and I actually bought the PlayStation Portal because as it turned out, I just like the format more than playing on TV. (I know about Chiaki — the Portal is seamless so I can hand it to a kid without getting them set up first and it never really disconnects.)

I think in part, it’s just a function of age. I don’t necessarily have uninterrupted time for big, cinematic games that work best on TV. Half of them have a 2h intro before you can even play the game. So, I end up playing games like Hades where I can get a few runs in and stop if I’m interrupted.

Almost every day, it's really helping get through the backlog I've built up over the years!

A whole bunch. After watching Fallout on Prime, I was inspired to try the series again (started and stopped both FO:NV and 4 several times in the past). I've played through all of Fallout 3, NV, and their DLCs, and I'm currently in the Nuka World dlc in 4. They all run fabulous on the deck. I work from home, so the thought of gaming in the very same chair I've been in for 8 hrs is unappealing. But lounging on the couch with my deck is fantastic!

I use it for "light" games (the 2D stuff, Balatro, Dicey Dungeons, Whisker Squadron Survivor) while sitting in bed. Honestly when I got it, I wasn't expecting to use it as much as I did.

I ended up with two. The OG which is now a media center more or less and the OLED which I use off and on depending on the game.

Yes! I like to play on the bed so there's nothing better. I'm playing forever skies on pc because it freezed the steam deck when I tried to start it but any other game it's on the deck

I usually play on my commute so between 15 min and 90 min each day depending on whether i play during the whole commute both ways or just a little bit. It's usually around 60 min each day because the rest is by bus and I don't always bother to pull it out or I don't get a place to sit.

It was setup as a desktop PC for my kid, (official dock, 1080p display, kb+m) for the last year and a half. Bit of an experiment on my part here, because I was curious to know if it was really viable.

The short answer is: yeah, kinda, but with big caveats.

The long answer is:

• It's alright to watch youtube, browse the web and such.
• It's perfectly fine for creative tools (GIMP, OpenShot, Libreoffice, etc).
• It's unsuited for games kids actually want to play (no Fortnite, no more Roblox as of this year, no Valorant, etc).
• It's surprisingly unreliable. We have had frequent issues (once every two weeks or so), with peripherals suddenly stopping to work for no apparent reason, or the system being slowed waaaay down. Turning it off and on again worked most of the time, but that is not something I expected from a Linux-based machine.

I'm playing something every night before bed as my calm/reset time.

Just finished up Yakuza: Like A Dragon - that ending hits hard. I'll probably go for something different next.

I still use my gaming laptop - but mostly just for Last Epoch multiplayer/BG3. I don't like the controller experience for either game, and i have a better voice setup for multiplayer chat on my PC.

I'm still somewhat new to the deck. It is a few months now and my usage went down, because it is not the shiny new toy anymore, but it secured a stable place in my game time. Also there are games which I play exclusively on the deck.

My switch on the other hand has suffered a lot because of that. Only MH rise gets me to still use it.

I use it almost every day, but it's really just a Balatro machine at this point. (Please help I have an addiction)

as a secondary machine suppose my main PC is broken

As often as I can

Yes.

I don’t have a desktop pc, so before I got my Steam Deck, I was using my laptop for pc gaming.

Mine is mostly a machine for travel. It's a godsend on flights, or for keeping up with an MMO like FFXIV when I'm gone for a week or longer. It's also handy for group things when we have a TV (Jackbox for family, or Moonrakers: Luminor for my board game group).