Can steam deck work offline as long as i have the game installed on it i want to play?

[RPG Gamer Man]

I want to really take the steam deck camping with me when i go traveling or to a national park to play it on my downtime from hiking and such. Will the steam deck work offline as long as i have the game installed on it? Or does it need to stay online all the time?

NOTE: i take my switch atm on the go, but i would love to bring some of these rpg;s i have on switch/pc that are indie or only found on steam on the go.

[tfk]

Depends on the game? Steam has an offline mode so steam won't be in the way.

Best to bring a power pack too.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by tfk:

Depends on the game? Steam has an offline mode so steam won't be in the way.

Best to bring a power pack too.

Good idea. Also, im asking like for chrono trigger, and some other like games. Also, maybe some of the final fantasy games...like the pixel version of ff games.

[AceHercules1196]

Some games require steam to be in online mode don’t ask why because I don’t know

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Corey:

Some games require steam to be in online mode don’t ask why because I don’t know

Yea i figured that too..thanks for info.

[BagginsB]

I think that the "playing in the park" feature is one of the main draws to this device. For me, at least. Maybe get a hammock as an accessory along with a ready-made case that I just saw existed.

I am curious to know how the online/offline gaming and cloud saving will work as well. Most all of my gaming will be close to a WiFi signal. I'll see if my cellphone is capable of creating a hot spot. I heard that's an option for some.

Have fun with yours!

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by bagginsb39:

I think that the "playing in the park" feature is one of the main draws to this device. For me, at least. Maybe get a hammock as an accessory along with a ready-made case that I just saw existed.

I am curious to know how the online/offline gaming and cloud saving will work as well. Most all of my gaming will be close to a WiFi signal. I'll see if my cellphone is capable of creating a hot spot. I heard that's an option for some.

Have fun with yours!

Ah right..the cellphone smart spot thing. I could try that too. Alot of campgrounds actually now have wifi with them..not all of them, but the majority of them have wifi now throught the campground as alot of rvers like doing that. I usually just go tent camping when i do. Anyways, i cannot wait till i get it. I might have to wait till next year, but i read they already doubled orders going out online. See info here:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/27/23185038/valve-steam-deck-doubling-shipments-production

[BagginsB]

Yeah, I saw that too. Can't complain about that!

BTW, where do you camp/hike/fish?

[RPG Gamer Man]

i camp alot of places...but i mostly like national parks in the usa. There is this nice spot near my house i go camping at too called double lake. It is very beautiful and ive caught big catfish there along the earthen dam in the park. It currently is my favorite campground i go to around me.

[BagginsB]

Good to know! I like catfish. I grew up in the Tahoe area but I currently live near Yosemite. Lots of places to hike and stuff!

I'm Q3 so here's to a hail of SD parts suddenly falling from the sky!

[Man's Best Friend]

Originally posted by bagginsb39:

I am curious to know how the online/offline gaming and cloud saving will work as well. Most all of my gaming will be close to a WiFi signal. I'll see if my cellphone is capable of creating a hot spot. I heard that's an option for some.

Have fun with yours!

In my experience so far the cloud saves have been largely fine, as long as you make sure that your Deck actually syncs your saves before switching from one system to another. I mean, this should be obvious, but most of the time we're used to playing online, so the saves are synced immediately upon quitting the game. If you play your Deck offline as I, and I'm sure many others do, you sometimes have to prod it a little bit to get the saves to sync since it seems to not do it immediately upon returning to a networked environment.

However, at least one of my games is wholly incompatible with cloud saves between the Deck and my PC. The problem is that this game has a native Linux build, and saves are located in different places between the PC and Linux. As such, the syncing system doesn't know what to do with the files from the other OS.