Steam Deck Games Can Now Be Stored on Floppy Disks

The new Decky Links plugin for Steam Deck allows storing links to digital games on physical media.

Gamers continue to look for ways to preserve the tradition of physical copies. The new Decky Links plugin for Steam Deck offers an unusual option – storing game links on physical media.

Decky Links supports NFC tags, QR codes, USB flash drives, and even classic 3.5-inch floppy disks. Full games cannot be written this way – they still remain digital. However, the user gets peculiar items for a physical collection.

Opinions on the project are divided. Some note the almost zero utility of such a system, while others praise the author's ingenuity. Conceptually, Decky Links resembles Game-key cards for Nintendo Switch 2, although here the solution was created by the users themselves.

Be that as it may, the project shows that interest in physical media among players has not disappeared.