The Steam Deck makes up less than 1 percent of hardware in the Steam hardware survey, but Steam Deck owners buy and play more games than the average Steam user. There is data to prove this.
The Steam Deck makes up less than 1 percent of hardware in the Steam hardware survey, but Steam Deck owners buy and play more games than the average Steam user. There is data to prove this.
You might have seen the latest [Fan the Deck video](https://youtu.be/d1PegZ0kyBQ) that goes over some examples of this. Basically, if you go to...
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You might have seen the latest Fan the Deck video that goes over some examples of this.
Basically, if you go to the Steam reviews of any game and then filter it down to reviews that are marked as "played mostly on Steam Deck," you can quickly get a percentage of how many reviews are "played mostly on Steam Deck". Now, obviously this isn't completely scientific and isn't going to be a perfect representation of the percentage of Steam Deck gamers vs everyone else for each game, but the numbers are still quite surprising.
One example that really surprised me is Prince of Persia the Lost Crown. If you scroll down to the review section and remove all filters, you can see a total of 1,378 reviews. Then, if you hover over "playtime" and enable the "played mostly on Steam Deck" filter, it goes down to 239 reviews. This puts Steam Deck reviews at 17.34% of all reviews!
If the Steam Deck was really irrelevant, you would expect this number to be more reflective of what the Steam Hardware Survey suggests. But, if anything, this suggests that the average Steam Deck owner is buying and playing more games than the average Steam user.
So let's look at some other games using the same method:
- UFO 50: 19.88%
- Balatro: 6.43%
- Deep Rock Galactic Survivor: 4.83%
- Halls of Torment: 4.82%
- Diablo IV: 4.44%
- Dave the Diver : 3.96%
- Persona 3 Reload: 3.75%
- Hades II: 3.71%
- Metaphor ReFantazio: 2.65%
- Vampire Survivors: 2.61%
- Monster Hunter Rise: 0.97%
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero: 0.95%
- Hogwarts Legacy: 0.94%
Now if you filter these games to only English language reviews, the numbers also tend to increase. Hogwarts Legacy jumps up to 1.22% and Monster Hunter Rise jumps up to 1.55%, for example. Diablo IV jumps up to 7.15%!
For older games that existed before the Steam Deck, the numbers don't look so good but the picture changes when you filter the reviews by more recent dates. It goes to show how as time goes on, with more and more Steam Decks out there, that Steam Deck users are becoming a bigger percentage of the playerbase for almost any game. For AAA titles, the numbers might not seem so impressive, but for indie titles, they can be a huge chunk of a game's sales.
Anyway, let me know if you can find any other interesting outliers. I'm sure there's several games out there with numbers similar to UFO 50 or Prince of Persia the Lost Crown.