Valve Steam Deck

Not as flexible as its Windows-based rivals, but great for fans of Steam

SCORE PRICE £569 from store.steampowered.com The Steam Deck offers the best outright gaming experience of the three models on test here. Valve’s SteamOS is much better adapted to handhelds than Windows 11. There’s no fiddling with tiny icons and desktop start menus; everything is slick and well designed for touch/controller operation. Valve has also done a great job of optimising a huge number of games for the Steam Deck, with little or no need to fiddle with controller settings, graphic detail or resolution in most cases. The Steam Deck offers the best battery life of any of the three on test here, too. I was sent the top-end OLED model with the 50Wh battery, which has a claimed battery life of three to 12 hours, depending on the game being played. I’d put…

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