Over the last week or so, I went to Gamescom to represent SteamDeckHQ, and it was a blast. I got to see so many awesome games and talk to many developers and publishers, and the majority of them were either very receptive, optimistic, or have already started implementing Steam Deck support!
In our article, we go over some examples, as well as me being known as “The Steam Deck Guy.” Though one I am happy to share is that the upcoming Epic Mickey Rebrushed will have full Steam Deck support at launch, and playing it on the Deck at Gamescom was phenomenal.
There’s much more we go into detail with in the article, but in the end, it’s looking very optimistic for Steam Deck support for future games.
As a Linux user, I love the steam deck. I’ll probably never own one, but what it did for Linux gaming was amazing
The way it brought to light how viable Linux gaming is, and make it more widely adopted, has been awesome.
Bought one as a present from my own birthday. Finally I don’t use it much, but as you said It showed me that Linux gaming was here. I switched all my computers to Linux and keep gaming.
As a fellow Linux guy, it’s just great. I have had to do no hacking and bare-bones minimal tweaking to get things how I want. 90% of games work out of the box, even mouse-heavy games like RimWorld. I just love it. I sit at a desk all day for work. I don’t want to do that after. The steam deck gives me almost my entire steam library and I can lounge wherever I feel like with it. I <3 you Steamdeck.
SteamDeck (and other handhelds like that) are super convenient to demo things out on. Don’t have to lug entire systems to trade shows. Just load up a dozen decks in a bag preloaded with whatever the most stable or latest build of your game is.
It makes sense for these trade shows. More of your game gets into people hands for that crucial demo. Less time wasted waiting in queue at the 2 PCs you brought instead.
That’s true. Though not a lot of devs there demoed games on Steam Deck. More indie devs did than AAA, but they all expressed interest.
Most people don’t know Linux. Those that do know it for the bad rep it has. Steam decks are the easiest way to explain that Linux isn’t as complicated as arch and isn’t as unusable as macOS for gaming
Steam deck convinced me to try Linux. I installed Mint on saturday and I’m pretty happy.
Sad that Adobe doesn’t work well with it, but everything else seemed pretty hassle free
Funny you mentioned arch, as steam deck os is based on arch, so it is using arch btw
It’s true! And it’s awesome to see so many people coming around to how great Linux can be.
I don’t have a Steam Deck and probably won’t get one, but I’m glad they exist, as it has made Linux gaming in general much better supported and simpler.
I thought the same for a long time. I had a gaming PC, I had my Switch (or earlier Nintendo consoles), I was covered. Eventually my gaming PC reached the end of the road (15+ years, minor upgrades along the way.) I was happy enough without it so I decided against building a new gaming PC.
Then Baldur’s Gate 3 was announced. I knew I’d need a new gaming PC to play it. Of course alternatives like Stadia showed up at that time, but we know how that story ends, and it ends before BG3 came out.
Steam Deck truly is a savior. I can play the latest games. I can play my old games. I can emulate games.
Plus unlike Android it feels like a Linux machine underneath. I don’t say that to shame Android, but I don’t feel like I own the device. I can customize a lot, but I’m just a user. But the Steam Deck? I can open the hood if I like and it’s a Linux machine with a built in touch screen and controller. It’s my PC.
To add, it’s even reached out to non-nerds. My brother, who isn’t THAT tech literate picked one up and he’s absolutely loving it. He hasn’t had a gaming PC ever but he’s getting tons of time on the Steamdeck and we’ve had zero issues playing games online together and using the steam voice chat.
