Saving won’t hurt but I just pause my games and put the device in sleep mode. That way when I open it, everything is ready. I never had any issues not even with AAA games. The device works perfectly as soon as I open it as if it wasn’t sleeping.

Both the LED one and OLED one are amazing. While LED is good for the cost, OLED has nice improvements.

Nine Parchments, Slay the Spire, Brotato, Path of Exile, Trine

I was playing Brotato this weekend it is so fun and light. My SD can run it for hours.

I had a blast playing Brotatos this weekend. It was awasome. I also suggest Nine Parchments. That is a hidden gem from creators of Trine and while we mentioned Trine I can recommend that game as well.

The OLED version looks like on fire, I wish I had it but it is not avaliable on my country and I already bought mine. I am 35 and while I have a PC, I don’t have time to play. I also bought BG3 and I think it is great but I can’t play it all due to being busy. SD plays BG3 decently well but let me say I won’t be playing much BG3 there. It just feels better to play on PC for me although I must admit SD has nice QOL settings for controller. However I recently bought Brotatos and it is so fun to play on a handheld device. Just sit on your couch and play all of these little-fun games that could be played well on controller. While you can surely connect a controller to pc, stream it on your tv and play on your couch, I think its much better to just grab SD, play those fast and fun games and get a lot of value for your time.

There is a section in steam that says runs great on steam deck. Also people suggest checking Protondb.com . I personally find games that works well with controller to play well in SD.