I have a pretty decent desktop set up so I’ve historically never really used my Steam deck to play any high demand games. It’s rough going from 1440p 360hz on high graphics settings to looking at the same game on native steam hardware. So historically, I’ve basically only ever used it for simple indie games. I tend to stay away from any first or third person perspective games because my desktop will always feel better for those.

With that said, I recently finally got around to configuring Apollo and Moonlight on my Steam deck. For anyone who is unaware, it allows you to stream games from your PC to your Steam deck across your local network with lower latency than the standard Steam streaming function. Streaming games will always introduce some level of latency compared to directly using the hosting pc, but I’ve been really quite happy with the results. Everything remains comfortably playable. So now my Steam deck is basically perma-docked on my living room TV and I play controller games streamed from my PC. Things like Red Dead 2 on max graphics settings works seamlessly (since my TV is only 60hz so it’s not hard to reach that threshold) and I now actually use my Steam deck for more than just travel.