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Steam Deck

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I’ve been considering purchasing a steam deck. My pc is in my office, which limits interaction with the rest of the family if I want to play anything. I’ve tried playing mobile games, but just can’t get use to the controls. Think it’s worth getting one?

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[–] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

My biggest barrier to playing games is only having short windows to play games, or not knowing how much time I have before I'll have to stop.

Steam Deck is great for me because of it's sleep function works in the middle of nearly every game (few exceptions are some online games that kick you from the session if you DC).

Thanks to sleep working mid game I can grab the deck, start playing in seconds, and stop again instantly when I need to without having to save/exit.

It's turned a lot of times where I would normally just look at my phone into short but productive play sessions.