-Modded minecraft, probably the most amazing game ever created, and then perfected by mods. Needs a proper control scheme in steam to play on the deck. Playable through prism launcher on the discover app repository.

-Stardew Valley, a really good farming simulator/rouge lite, also one of the best games ever made. Great on the deck.

-Modded fallout 4 is probably the funnest action RPG I have ever played. The base game is pretty decent. Plays great on the deck.

-Nova Aetus mod for mount and blade warband. One of my favorite games of all time, with this amazing mod. Too much to explain. Needs a proper control scheme on deck, or a mouse and keyboard.

-Rimworld, dark colony sim meets tower defense and hardcore futuristic scifi world building that is great. A bit cumbersome on the deck because of the mouse heavy interface.

-Borderlands 2, a great little grindy shoot and loot. Fun co-op game. Great on deck.

For minecraft modpacks, i recommend the 1.7.10 pack on technic, for 1.7 and ATM 8 from curseforge for 1.9.

I use mine for everything I use a computer for. Windows has become very unbearable. I connected a windows PC to my hotspot for a few hours to fix some stuff, turned on “metered connecton”, and… 1/3rd of my data is gone. Wtf. This whole, we will tell the user what they will and won’t do really pisses off. You cant even disable updates anymore.

Steam OS needs some tweaking to make it more into a PC. It has a read only file system that doesnt work well with software not installed as flatpacks. You can work around this, but when steamdeck becomes a bit more stable and mature, there will be some cool drop in replacements of modified steam OS that basically give you a full desktop operating system in desktop mode.