If you hook it up to a monitor and use a keyboard with mouse, it’s indistinguishable from a regular PC.
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Deestan@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHow’s the deck for mouse-heavy strategy games like Stellaris, Civ, etc?
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Playing portably, mouse-based games run pretty well. Games that use a lot of keyboard keys are where it gets difficult without using an actual keyboard.
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t personally have one, but Civ has a touch interface (at least 5 does, never got into 6). The touchpads probably approximate a mouse input.
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 3 weeks ago
Great, the touchpads are amazing for mouse-related stuff while handheld. I can comfortably use mouse heavy menus with them. Obviously, a lot closer to a laptop touchpad than an actual mouse, but still a lot better than a joystick as mouse.
A Steam Deck is a PC. If you dock it, you can hook up a mouse+KB and a monitor, and use “desktop mode” (KDE plasma) to use it exactly like any other Linux desktop. Docked “gaming mode” makes it feel more like a home console for PC games (and emulators). It is even possible (though not recommended) to install Windows.