Steam Deck battery life test: Ayrden’s Ring can only be played for 93 minutes

IT House reported on April 3 that the Steam Deck handheld allows you to play games anytime, anywhere, but its battery life has always been a concern for players. Recently, Rock Paper Shotgun has tested the battery life of a number of games on Steam Deck. Let’s take a look Just a moment.

The Steam Deck battery life test settings are as follows:

• Brightness to 50%

• Turn off dynamic brightness

• Turn off airplane mode (Wifi and Bluetooth on)

• 50% volume

• Native resolution (FSR off)

• Default TDP and GPU clock frequency

The test results are as follows:

• Ayrton Circle: 1 hour 33 minutes

• Apex Legends: 2 hours 28 minutes

• God of War 4: 1 hour 29 minutes

• Horizon: Dawn Dawn: 1 hour 31 minutes

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: 1 hour 44 minutes

• Portal 2: 4 hours 3 minutes

• Death’s Gate: 2 hours 34 minutes

• Fallout 4: 1 hour 48 minutes

• Forza Horizon 5: 1 hour 37 minutes

• GTA5: 2 hours 54 minutes

• Hitman 3: 1 hour 41 minutes

• Hades: 3 hours 27 minutes

• Team Fortress: 2 hours 16 minutes

IT House learned that Valve said the Steam Deck battery life should be between two and eight hours, but battery life may vary more depending on the game. The game with the longest battery life tested by foreign media is “Super Meat Boy”, which lasted 9 hours and 17 minutes, with airplane mode and minimum screen brightness turned on, while the shortest was only 1 hour and 17 minutes (“Horizon: Dawn of Dawn” picture quality is full height).