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

  • RaspberryAlienJedi@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. Maybe try r/CozyGamers
    2. No flaws in the plan, except that sometimes with new accounts the system may flag as spam or similar and sometimes you even need to send an ID to prove identity. This may or may not matter to you, as that account will forever have that data about you somewhere on their support system. Think if you break up in the future and it’s now her account. Just something to think about. Also maybe it would be better to give her a gift card and let her pick the games she wants? You may end up spending money on games she doesn’t like at the end of the day. Maybe if you had a list of games she’d want… The steam wishlist would work too.