After loading up all of my favorite games onto the handheld PC, I decided to supercharge it with these five ideas.
Granted, you can log in to your Steam Deck, download the first game that comes to mind and enjoy the handheld PC as it is, but there’s plenty you can do to extend how you use it.
I’ve had mine for a while now, and I always like to see what a device is capable of, and how far I can take it. The same has applied to the Steam Deck, and it’s resulted in some games working as intended by editing certain text files or importing community ports of games like the original Tomb Raider.
It can be overwhelming however to someone who may want to access their purchased games from Epic Games for example, but you may not be sure where to look and how to install the storefront on the handheld.
With this in mind, here are five things that I did early on that will not only help you use your Steam Deck in better ways, but could also inspire you to look beyond what it’s officially capable of.
While SteamOS lets you download almost any Steam game you’ve bought over the years, there’s other storefronts on PC that you may have an equal amount of games that you’ve bought, such as Epic Games and GOG.
This is where Heroic Games Launcher (opens in new tab) comes in, where you can access these stores and it the majority of your downloaded games from these libraries, and slots them into your Steam library.
