I never expected that the Steam Deck could help someone find a partner—and not by meeting in a game, but through a chance encounter in real life. A Reddit user recently shared that he bought the Steam Deck OLED simply to be able to play games anytime, such as before work or after work, and he didn’t expect this handheld to help his social life. Unexpectedly, one day before work, because of this Steam Deck, he met a woman in a café, and the two have now been dating for 5 months. He gave this purchase a perfect score of 10/10 and said Valve should use this feature in its advertising.
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Bought a Steam Deck just to lie in bed and play games, but ended up helping a girl fix an emulator at a café and got a girlfriend! Player: 10/10, Valve should use this for an ad.
A Reddit user named charliekirkedyou recently shared a love story on SteamDeck that was so sweet it blinded many people.
The story starts with his reason for buying a Steam Deck. The OP said he bought the Steam Deck OLED simply because, after a full day of work, he wanted to be able to play modded Fallout and Switch games in bed without having to sit back down at his computer desk. He had absolutely no intention of letting the device help his social life in any way. His daily life was a fixed loop: go to work, come home and sit on the couch, play indie games on itch.io until 1 a.m., and then do it all over again the next day. He himself described that period of his life as “pretty depressing.”
Unexpectedly, one morning, a romantic chance encounter happened. That day it suddenly occurred to him that the Steam Deck was originally designed as a portable handheld, so he brought it to the café he usually went to before work, put on his headphones, found a seat, and started playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on an emulator.
Halfway through playing, he noticed someone standing next to the table. He took off one earbud, assuming the person was going to ask “Is this seat taken?” or where the restroom was, but the girl pointed at his handheld and asked, “Is that a Steam Deck?” The girl’s name was Maya. Not only did she recognize the Steam Deck, but she also had one at home, and at the time she was trying to figure out how to install emulators on it, but kept getting stuck on which files to put in which folders. So he told Maya that if she brought her Steam Deck the next day, he could help take a look at the setup.
As it turned out, Maya really did show up with a handheld console the next day. What should have taken 15 minutes to set up an emulator turned into a long conversation, and the two gradually got to know each other as they worked through the problem. After that, they started meeting outside the café too, then went on dinner dates, and by the time he posted, they had been officially dating for 5 months.
How a steam deck got me into a relationship
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In the post, he also wrote: “I originally bought a handheld console just to play video games in bed, but in the end it forced me to go talk to a girl, and it even led me to the best relationship of my life.”
Many netizens in the comments said they were extremely envious. In addition to a flood of well-wishes, many people were also curious whether the two would play video games together after they started dating. The original poster also replied that they are currently playing Baldur’s Gate 3 cooperatively.
So if you own a Steam Deck, next time you take it out to play, don’t get too absorbed in the game—your next romantic encounter might just be around the corner.
Source: KOCPC Chinese