EDIT: Periodically adding games as I have time to check them out.

TLDR types; game list is at the bottom.

Hey all. I have the 8GB RAM 128GB SSD version with a 400GB microSD card slapped in for at least SOME media storage and put on Windows 10 Professional.

Been liking it pretty well for the two weeks I've had it (got a great discount, love how portable it is), but quickly concluded it's not nearly on par with android or iOS for use as a tablet... But it does okay as a Windows computer for basic usage... Did I mention it's tiny and portable and I got a really good discount?

Let's be real... The Surface Go is a potato. A pretty pretty potato. Which, admittedly, is plenty for your average consumer / non-media producing types. As a long time Windows PC gamer, occasional media producer, and high end desktop builder, this is unquestionably the lowest end Windows device I have owned, by a significant margin. (This thing has half the cpu cores and about 1/3rd the clockspeed of my lowest-end desktop.)

That being said, I like to push my hardware to it's limit / get the most out of it, and that means being able to do some mobile gaming... Ideally using the full screen without big black bars (the bezel is thick enough, k thnx bai) from using non-3:2 lower res ratios.

Steam game streaming to the device works great.

Done some limited testing with emulators, Steam, and battle.net with varying degrees of success. With this being a handsome potato, my standards are pretty low; Staying consistently above 25fps and full screen (1800x1200) and/or genres that just don't need consistent fps = playable, occasional lag / fps spikes or not infrequent dropping under 25fps and/or occasional instability = something on the "ish" side. Mostly under 25fps = nope. Please note that this is by no means scientific and many of the titles have only briefly been fired up / poked at.

Games list so far:

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___Playable___

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- Aviary Attorney

- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (lower resolution)

- Broforce

- Castle Crashers (consistent high fps)

- Fez

- Guilty Gear XX Accent Plus R

- Heroes of the Storm (low settings)

- Hidden Folks

- Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?!

- Hyper Light Drifter (runs very well)

- Life is Strange (bit low in FPS, but genre of game is largely unaffected by this.)

- Metal Slug 3

- Old Man's Journey

- Owlboy (default widescreen setting)

- Shadowrun: Hong Kong (slightly choppy at higher res, but turn-based so don't care)

- Skullgirls (at default graphic settings / widescreen)

- Sid Meier's Civilization V (1800x1200 medium / high settings, 20s FPS)

- SNES level and older system emulators (via Retroarch)

- Super Time Force Ultra (60 fps consistent)

- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (still testing with mods. Often over 40 fps at lower resolutions high settings)

- The King of Fighters XIV Steam Edition (720p 25-30fps)

- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (1800x1200 medium settings averages around 30fps, seldom drops below 20fps)

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___Playable-ish___

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- Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- (Game runs at low FPS and often at half speed at minimum resolution setting)

- King of Fighters XIV Steam Edition (Mostly playable. 720p seems to run at proper speed, but relatively low frame rate and infrequent choppiness in single player mode)

- Hollow Knight

- Magic Arena (Graphics randomly disappear. No error messages. No blue screen. Mouse still is interacting with game, audio still running. Can't maxmize, alt enter does nothing, alt tabbing just shows a black screen in the preview image / won't restore the graphics, bring to front via task manager doesn't do anything. Have to force quit the program and relaunch to restore any game graphics. Icon remains in taskbar. Desktop displays, as if the game was just invisible. Never seen anything like it without some sort of graphics driver error or CTD. Game is still running, just not displaying any graphics.)

- (for the lewd gamers) Miconisomi titles

- Moon Hunters (frequently fails to load. Crashed once in an hour of playtime. When stable, a little on the low fps side.)

- Pokemon TCG Online (Graphics randomly disappear. No error messages. No blue screen. Mouse still is interacting with game, audio still running. Can't maxmize, alt enter does nothing, alt tabbing just shows a black screen in the preview image / won't restore the graphics, bring to front via task manager doesn't do anything. Have to force quit the program and relaunch to restore any game graphics. Icon remains in taskbar. Desktop displays, as if the game was just invisible. Never seen anything like it without some sort of graphics driver error or CTD. Game is still running, just not displaying any graphics.)

- PSX emulator (only tested Castlevania: Symphony of the Night so far)

- Starcraft 2

- Sundered

- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (game action seems slowed down)

- Valkyria Chronicles 4 (720p lowered settings averages 9-15 FPS)

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___Nope___ (without lowering res and getting big-ass black bars)

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- Grey Goo

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Do you have any pleasant surprises or disappointments with games on your Go? Let me know :)