One year ago, Lenovo turned the primary firm apart from Valve to announce a handheld with SteamOS as a substitute of Home windows. The outcome was the Legion Go S with SteamOS; no Steam Deck killer as a consequence of worth and battery life, however a giant step ahead in efficiency and pick-up-and-play portability.
Now, Lenovo’s doing it once more — it’s bringing SteamOS to the Legion Go 2, its flagship handheld with removable Nintendo Swap-like controllers and the most advanced screen in a handheld yet. Lenovo plans to start promoting a SteamOS model in June beginning at $1,199, the corporate simply introduced at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. Specs are in any other case the identical.
Sure, that’s fairly the value tag and fairly the wait earlier than it arrives! Lenovo already launched the Home windows model of this handheld on the finish of October, so it’ll already be seven-to-eight months outdated by the point SteamOS debuts. (With the Legion Go S, the Home windows model solely had a three-month head begin.)
However merely switching from Home windows to SteamOS can supply a notable efficiency enhance, too, and the Legion Go 2 isn’t simply premium due to an AMD chip. As of this writing, it’s the one handheld in the marketplace with a variable-refresh-rate OLED display screen to make video games look superb and one of many few that doubles as a pill, with a wonderful built-in kickstand and comfy sculpted removable wi-fi controllers for tray desk play. There’s even an FPS mouse constructed into a type of controllers, with a snap-on puck to let it glide easily throughout a desk.
I known as the unique Legion Go “the Swiss Army knife of handhelds,” and my time with the Legion Go 2 is far the identical. I nonetheless discover the newer Legion Go 2 a bit heavy and awkward with all the additional mouse buttons beneath my fingers as I grip, however there’s no denying its versatility. Talking of which: you may already load Bazzite onto a Legion Go 2 if you need a preview of SteamOS there. The whole lot appears to work, together with the removable controllers and RGB lighting.
