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Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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Has anyone done this? How well does it work? Do you recommend it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It’s honestly all I use mine for. There are very few PC games that I play that feel good on the deck but the majority of retro games feel excellent. I also seldom use mine as a portable I have it docked to one TV or another to work.

Just for clarity because I don’t want people to think I’m saying the steam deck is a bad PC gaming substitute the games that I play specifically don’t work well without a mouse and a keyboard. I play a lot of Rogue likes like dungeon crawl, stone soup and I play a lot of Dwarf Fortress and I haven’t found a way to get comfortable controller schemes that remotely compared to just using my mouse and keyboard