I’m bedridden, so it’s my primary gaming device. But I got a new table for my laptop so that has taken up video playing duties which previously were done by the Deck.

I’ve only had it for a couple of weeks, but it’s been ~95% of my gaming time. I have a decent desktop gaming rig (I need a video card for work, so I built a computer last year), but I have a time-consuming job and I want to be present for my kids. My only gaming time is in the evening, which is also my only time to spend with my wife (without kiddos), so I’m not going to leave her to have on the other end of the house. I play in bed next to her.

I’m a patient gamer, too, so it’s a plenty powerful machine for all the games I play anyway. I’ve mostly been playing Stardew Valley since it doesn’t require complete attention, so I can also watch a show with my wife at the same time and catch most of it.

I have so many games I want to play on it, but I’m in no rush. I’ll be using the Deck for many years, I’m guessing. With the OLED screen, I don’t see why I’d need to upgrade, either. I don’t need a faster machine. I literally have 100+ PC games and even more console games I want to play that the Deck can handle, so I’m completely happy with this device’s capabilities.

Almost exclusively use mine for games. There are a few games like Deep Rock that I only really enjoy with a mouse, but everything else is Steam Deck only now.

I’ve slowly been playing less and less on my deck, cause i got a new computer, and am taking full advantage of it with cyberpunk 2077. I’m still probably gonna start using my deck more when the new computer awe goes away.

The timing actually bit me in the ass, as I got my SD only a few months before building a new 4k 120hz rig and TV update.

It gets its use more casual, quick gaming. When it is 930 PM I don’t want to take over my living room to game for an hour before I have to go to bed. So I pop on Shovel Knight Dig of whatever and dick around. Very rarely now is it my main gaming machine.

BUT

I use it in desktop mode for one of my two living room TVs. Its so FUCKING awesome having a full PC I can charge and keep alive with just a high powered USB C cable. Its an amazing media PC because of its size and doomed profile.

I’m definitely still in a honeymoon phase with my OLED Deck, my first. My poor ps5 would have started collecting dust if it weren’t for how amazing Chiaki is.

I’ve used Mac for work, and Sony, Nintendo for gaming since forever, so deck is my first gateway into a lot of classic PC/Microsoft gaming history. By all rights, Deck is now my dedicated retro handheld and it’s nearly perfect for it (limited PS3). Right now I’m playing Star Wars: Dark Forces on the force Engine with the intention to play through the series. I have Daggerfall Unity installed as well, and I will be able to play Morrowind and Oblivion for the first time. Same same goes for the Halo series.

I can also finally play some games online with friends who don’t appreciate consoles as much as I do.

I’ll keep adding newer Games to my PlayStation library on PS5, but deck gives me access to a lot of PC ports to older console games I loved as well. I can repurchase them on the cheap and have them back in my library with deck.

Before getting the Deck, I pretty much gave up on gaming because I started working fulltime remotely and I didn’t want to just continue sitting on the same desk after work and continue gaming there. It’s bad for my physical and mental health.

Since getting my OLED end of November, I’ve been playing an average of 3h per day despite fulltime work and spending holidays with family and friends… oops :D I think it will definitely go down once the honeymoon phase is over, but its impact is already made. Through it I’ve found a new way to fit an old hobby back into my life.
I’m also using it to watch stuff on TV in docked mode. The portable format is just perfect for it.

Bought the deck, upgraded to a 2tb SSD, upgraded the cooling, swapped the shell, added additional grips on the sticks, pads, triggers, rear buttons, did some overclocking and undervolting, spent many hours tweaking various setting and plugins, etc. I’ve played a couple of hours of Mario golf on yuzu, and haven’t otherwise touched it for a single other game. I’ve had it for 8 months. And the $2k gaming laptop that I ended up with a couple of months ago really kind of put the nail in the coffin. I had big plans for the Deck when I bought it(and the many accessories, upgrades, and mods), and those plans just kinda… didn’t become a thing.

I’ve been thinking about pulling the SSD and putting the 512gb back in, and just selling. The only thing stopping me is that I have some ideas on possible major life changes for this time next year(think tiny and/or mobile living arrangements), where the form factor of the Deck would/should be beneficial. That was the original intended purpose of me buying it to begin with. But even there, the laptop is plenty small, and vastly more powerful. Just not sure I see a reason to have both, and if forced to choose one or the other, I mean…

It’s not my primary device but it fills a couple niches really well. And travel device isn’t even the most important, though obviously I love it for that.

Sometimes I game with it over my PC when I want to be outside in the summer.

But most of the time I end using it with the tv. I have the dock and it’s become more like a Nintendo switch than a Sega game gear. My friends and blasted through Streets of Rage 4 in an afternoon for example. And im in a couple discord movie servers and when I’m watching I just switch to desktop mode and full screen it.

So yeah I’m not using it the way I thought, but it gets used couple times a week minimum, a lot more if I have along bus or train ride.

Over the last 6 months I have played my steamdeck more than my desktop. As a dad of young children, my weekday gaming in done on my deck after my kids go to bed. Then on the weekends, I game on my desktop in the basement with my buddies from college.

In the last month I have spent more time working on learning some new skills and reading books instead of gaming during the weekdays. This has taken the place of my normal deck gaming time. I will probably go back to adding in some gaming in a few months. That will all be on my deck.

1% of my gaming time but it’s hooked up to my TV and I use it as a mobile pc media center.

Depends. Lately I’ve been playing things that are not… ideal on the Deck. For example American Truck Simulator runs very well, BUT! I kinda doze off if it’s night, so my way around that is a big screen, less comfortable position (plain old sitting at a desk) and a secondary screen with Netflix or something. Snow runner I prefer the Deck. It just feels right. Also my main game got me playing regularly again, and when it’s the PS version… can’t really play it on the Deck.

So yeah, it’s down. Hilariously too, if you consider that for ATS I’m just using my Mac!

Side note: it hurts bad to see Baldur’s Gate running… smoother than on anything else I have, because it’s lightweight enough graphically, but the base M2 whips both the Deck’s cpu (fair enough) and the Ryzen 3600 in my gaming pc that should be better because of the RTX 3060…

It’s my main PC gaming device since my laptop is even struggling with TF2, and occasionally Ultrakill (which I only play there because I want M+K, and I might just start plugging those into my Deck), so it has been more than 95% of my PC playtime since I got it 1,5 years ago.

Which I’m fine with since I can’t bother with a desktop, and gaming laptops are too loud/hot, both from older experience and seeing others.