My girlfriend isn’t a gamer but she loves playing games when she decides to try them, she loved Hogwarts Legacy, YuGiOh Master Deck and Dragonball Z Kakarot but she played them because she knew the franchises and liked them. We’re also playing it takes two together and she loves it.

My hunch is she’d never buy herself a steamdeck but she’d enjoy one if she had it. So I’m thinking about getting her one for Christmas (alongside some other presents she 100% wants just in case I’m wrong…)

She also loves The Sims 4, and played a lot of Age of Empires and Theme Hospital growing up.

So I have four questions:

  1. What games do you think could be a contender given what she liked playing above?

  2. She doesn’t have a steam account so I was thinking about making her one myself using another email, buying games on there that she’d like and changing the email over once I gift it to her, are there any flaws in that plan?

  3. Is it simple to add emulators?

  4. What’s the return window like if she really doesn’t like it? Haha

  • Prudent-Moment6608BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Games wise, you have described exactly what my wife loves played (huuuuge fan of sims 4 and Harry Potter).

    Her new favourite game is called house flipper (she found out about it through TikTok).

    She (through my steam account) owns the base game and every single dlc and has about 200 hours into it through steam.

    I suggest you buy:

    -all 3 games -a dock in case she likes using a bigger screen during longer gaming sessions. -if you go with the dock, grab her a controller unless she likes using a kb and mouse (in which case grab her both).