Steam Deck Helped Me Embrace Low Settings
Depending on what you play and which titles are in your library, the Steam Deck is either the future for portable gaming or an expensive brick that can barely run many of the games promoted as verified. Or you might fall somewhere in the middle as a person who just wants to play Steam games away from home on a portable computer that doesn’t look like it was designed by edgelords. Gaming laptops are just too cool to exist, which is why companies are required by law to add glowing logos of dragons and shit.
After spending a few weeks with the Steam Deck - including while traveling - I can confidently tell you that the Steam Deck… is fine. It’s not bad by any means! I’ve found myself picking it up and playing it more than I thought I would. And while it’s heavy, the system is surprisingly comfortable if you’ve got arm rests or cartoon Popeye-type muscles. The screen is good. There are video games available that I’ve spent almost two decades buying. It is a Steam Deck.
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A lot of the complaints about the Steam Deck center around the fact that it’s not a particularly fast computer. Or, rather, not a particularly fast gaming computer. Valve may have overplayed its compatibility. Some older games play like shit. Some newer games look like shit. Even verified games can take hours of effort to figure out. For example, the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is incredibly weird to play on the Deck. It feels like both the Steam Deck and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion don’t know why anybody would want to play Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on a Steam Deck.
That said, there’s something oddly charming about how weird the Steam Deck can be. Unlike playing on a traditional console, you can
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