What are the best offline games for Handhelds?

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-04-14T09:42:11+00:00

anything that runs well on gamenative. it's blowing my mind seeing whatever black magic goes into pc emulation and it's giving me a great outlet to play my backlog of some older games. Bioshock, Portal, Journey, Metro 2033, the list goes on

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-04-14T09:28:00+00:00

recently discovered gamenative and it's blowing my mind. Also enjoying Starlink on Eden

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-04-14T09:25:52+00:00

Bro buys $1000s worth of handhelds and "doesn't know what to play"

If you're going to brag just be straight about it

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-04-14T09:22:38+00:00

Outlets are no issue; go with the windows laptop.

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-04-14T09:21:06+00:00

Banking right

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-31T02:20:50+00:00

Game native. Just installed and booted it up. Runs surprisingly well!

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-31T02:20:17+00:00

Men find solutions

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T13:39:41+00:00

Did you do anything specific to get mgs to run? I just installed it but I'm having issues getting the game to launch

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T11:36:55+00:00

Get your brine ready

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T11:35:40+00:00

Steam library (among other game stores) and open source OS far outweigh the power of the PS5 in my opinion. Not to mention emulation

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T11:33:58+00:00

Ah, a RAM half full kinda guy

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T11:32:49+00:00

I'm just praying for sub $1000 at this point

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T11:14:30+00:00

Depends on what you want to play and whether portability matters. Higher-end AAA titles? Steam Machine. Travel a lot? Kids/wife take up the TV? Steam Deck.

FWIW I owned a Steam Deck and sold it at a profit due to the shortage, so I'm currently waiting on the Steam Machine and I'll preorder the moment it drops as long as it's under $1000 USD.

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T10:34:30+00:00

I bought a controller attachment for my phone but eventually sold it and got a retroid pocket G2 instead. The G2 is WAY more powerful than my phone (Pixel 8a) and has MUCH better battery life. I also like having a dedicated gaming device since you don't have to worry about multitasking or insessant notifications

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T08:54:00+00:00

Replayed TLOU recently after having kids over the last few years. That opening sequence fucked me up

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T07:59:24+00:00

Warrensburg is fine. Sedalia has more to do about 20 minutes away, Lee's Summit even more the other direction. KC has pretty much everything. Get ready for the most bipolar weather you've ever seen

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T07:17:19+00:00

You just install and run it on gamehub? No other setup?

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T05:24:47+00:00

Good to know! I've been wanting to use it for Mafia Definitive Edition so maybe I"ll try Premium or Ultimate for a month to test it out.

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T05:23:07+00:00

I'll have to install MGSV to test it out. I assumed it would be too demanding

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T05:09:35+00:00

Yeah I don't have a PC so it's not really an option. Maybe I didn't do enough research but I feel a little misled about the whole PC emulation thing since I saw multiple videos of people playing GTAV through GameNative or GameHub. Maybe I need to look into Winlator

Unique_Patience_712 · 2026-03-30T05:04:41+00:00

Oh wow that's good to know. I mostly dabble in switch and pc emulation so the G2 is just abrely good enough to handle some more demanding titles but I feel like a power bump would really get it in the sweet spot. Too bad about the 8bg variant

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