Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! I n fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.

Hit the arrow next to the big Install button, and a pop-up will appear. Select the name of your PC (in my case, it’s MagnaCarter-PC) and hit A. The button will now say Stream. Hit that and Remote Play will begin to work its magic.

The Steam Deck and the PlayStation Portal, in their different ways, absolutely trounce the Switch in the controller department. I've gotten spoiled by the luxurious feel of both handhelds. The Steam Deck is studded with control options: roomy analog triggers, large extra trackpads and additional paddle buttons on the backside.

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The Steam Deck led to a surge of handheld gaming PCs, but GPD has been making its own options since before Valve entered the scene. Now the company has revealed a new laptop-handheld hybrid, the GPD Win Mini 2025.