I’ve found that it works fine to just sleep and resume, although I’ll usually save my game (if the game supports it) to be on the safe side. The only issue I’ve had was one time I did this with Dave the Diver and it seemed to record the whole time it was on sleep as game time, so now when I look at it on Steam it says 50 hours but I’ve only done 10-15 hours. Only happened once though.

Leave game open when sleeping 80% of the time maybe, always make sure there’s a recent save though to be safe.

I have a habit of closing games before I put my deck to sleep. Weirdly enough though because I have a decky plugin that shows animated cover art, my system doesn’t go to sleep at all, even if I set up a screen timeout limit.

Almost all the games I play work great. Theres just the borderlands franchise that i cant seen to work with sleep, constant dissconnects

I’ve probably rebooted my deck about five times since I got it a couple of years ago. I completed baldurs gate over the course of several months with probably closing the game maybe once or twice, just sticking the deck in sleep/suspend every time. This is absolutely what the deck is designed to do and doesn’t cause any issues. It’s more or less the only reason that I can still game so regularly as a parent.

Nah i leave those babies running in sleep for several days straight

Nope. Power button and I’m off to the next hustle.

I usually never do I just put the decksto sleep and keep playing. Recently been playing Gears 5 for 4 days now never closed it

No, but I always save if I can

If I’m going right back to it, no. If I’m going to be a few hours, usually

I used to shutdown my Steamdeck. So I want to save energy as much as possible.

The 3.5.x update on LCD, and now of course on OLED has solved so many of the sleep stability issues I had. I never had a game itself crash or fail to handle resuming from sleep, but prior to 3.5, the deck OS would not be responsive. So far on 3.5 sleep has worked beautifully, and Bluetooth audio automatically reconnects every time too. Tested with NoMansSky and Snow Runner so far numerous times for both. I commute via train daily, with a Train transfer mid commute and rely on that sleep function. 3.5 has so far solved all my issues in this use case.

One funny bug I think may still exist is that games left running while in sleep, count towards your steam play time. I have some absurd hours in a few games because of it. Looks like I played train sim 4 for 168hrs straight one week.

Always, I like accurate gameplay time and don’t trust it to not record the sleeping time.

Never. Sometimes issues happen but it is very rare… it is one of the biggest advantages to the deck.

I always do, it’s what it’s there for. Rarely have problems. The ones I do are generally fixed by relaunching the game.