Customer Ratings & Reviews

Super powerful handheld! Love that it has full blown windows 11 on it. Plays Resident Evil Village, Borderlands 3, and Final Fantasy X and X-2 like a champ. Only complaint is the battery life, but thats not enough for me to rate it lower, i love the thing. Beats the heck out of the Steamdeck

This handheld is amazing. It is basically a ps4 pro portable. The only issue is the sd card slot is defective due to the wrong position of it next to the heat fan.

So I tend to over research everything to find the biggest bang for my buck. This is it! If you're considering this vs the base vs the more expensive Ally X I cannot recommend this enough. It has the same processor and screen as the X with a smaller battery and less RAM. That's it, get a large external battery for cheap that has a PD port of about 65w or more and you can play this thing nearly all day. Performance is amazing and it can even function as a desktop PC with some setup. Get it!!!!

I bought both steam deck oled and this one. I highly recommend steamdeck. Screen was amazing. But battery was not so good.

Excelente to play games but the battery is to short, only long about 1 hour

It’s a portable computer. It can play games or you can dock and use it as a desktop. Wait until it’s on sale to get it for the best price. Other than that zero complaints. Average space, but most likely will need to utilize cloud playing when on WiFi.

I have truly enjoyed playing the Ally. It does come with some quirks, but largely it fits the type of gaming I've been looking for. I can play it anywhere, or attach to a dock and play like a console. It can play pretty much any game you throw at it, without losing too much in terms of quality.

changed the way i game, can play any game i want wherever i want, is a game changer for sure

Excellent device. I wanted a handheld device that is powerful, quiet, and has a great screen. The ROG Ally checks all the boxes. I can casually game in pretty much any environment and do not have to worry about the fans getting obnoxiously loud. If you set yourself up with realistic expectations, this device is great. With that being said, don’t expect to be able to play on battery for several hours at a time and don’t expect a console like software experience. Running a AAA game on battery in a handheld device with a 7 inch screen on low to medium settings is pretty impressive for the technology that’s available today. Even if it’s only for an hour or two. Also it’s a windows machine so you will need to download your gaming platforms manually and setup like a windows device, but that should be expected.

Its daily use with jobs, applications or videos works well for Windows 11, I recommend having a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor for more comfortable use. Only with games: It works perfectly, although the battery issue becomes a limitation, but when connected to the charger it can be used quite well.

Love it. Takes a bit to get everything set up but once it's working it works great. I have a pc but currently don't have much time to sit at it to game so this let's me game on the go.

The best purchase that I made, stunning screen and controls, just the battery drains quickly with AAA games

Love my Ally, I enjoy the work needed to make this device suit me. I understand it is not plug and play for most things. Great machine, lots to do and fine tune. Lots to learn and tinker with. Runs my emulators easily and runs Diablo. Cons are the battery life, its not necessarily bad. I get about an hour ad a half playing Fallout New Vegas on High settings and in performance mode. For me that's about the time I have to play a game usually uninterrupted so this works. There aren't many accessories, it is a guessing game with 3rd party cases at the moment. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoys the project of setting up a device and satisfaction of learning through trial and error. I wouldn't recommend it to someone coming from a home console expecting a similar experience.

This is a very capable gaming laptop shoved into very compact portable platform. It runs Windows 11 and all of my EA, Steam, and other games with ease. If you are looking for an ultra compact gaming platform that checks all the boxes, then order this today!

This does everything the steam deck can do and more due to it being full windows 11, game performance has been great. The only problem is the horrible battery life, be prepared to carry a battery pack or just stay close to an outlet.

I like the fact that I can play almost all my PC games on this handheld console. The graphics are nice looking, sound is great. I already have a MSI gaming laptop which the games look and play great on. But the difference between this is that I can play my PC games on the go. There are some tweaks you have to do with settings to play the games. But that’s not too hard. Since this has windows 11, there will always be updates you have to install like a regular PC. Once its up and running, the games play great. I think this item is overpriced at $699.99. I had to return it since it did not make any sense to keep it since I have a killer gaming laptop. But if the price would be at $599.99 then I would buy it. If you don’t have a gaming PC, then you should definitely buy it.

If you have a steam deck and want the ally, it would be like upgrading from a gtx 1660 to an rtx 3050 ti. The jump in fps is mind boggling. Beamng runs monster trucks at around a solid 50 fps on any map, bo3 gets around 70/80 on everything maxed, modern warfare 2019 gets 60 fps on high settings and spider man remastered gets 30/40 fps on high settings and because it’s amd, the graphics chip hasn’t even reached its full potential and is nowhere near reaching its full potential as the device is so new. After lots of updates, it will be able to run pretty much anything you throw at it. Very good device and have been absolutely loving it so far.

Great piece of tech. Have been using this to play some newer games i've missed since getting rid of my PC. Was able to run most modern games at 60 fps with some quick adjustment to the settings. Battery life leaves a lot to be desired but thats to be expected for what this handheld is doing.

I love my ROG ally Z1 Extreme.... I also have the Lenovo Legion Go (Best BUY AND) The ROG ally X. I recommended this especially of you are trying get both plus the x and leave on docked to act as you're hone set up and use the x to travel with cause the micro sd works unfortunately the only gripe is that the Z1 Extreme Micro SD doesn't work but the internal memory can be upgraded. Check out my boy King Cato in youtube or kingcatothergamerfgc on tiktok he streams with all of em

Great handheld device, was deciding between this and the steam deck. Glad I went with the Ally, I prefer the versatility versus being confined to steam games only. With the ally, you're able to use different launchers such as xbox games, EA, and ubisoft to name a few. Of course, since it does run Windows 11 the Ally does support Steam as well. Also appreciate being able to add memory with a micro SD card since the Ally only comes with 500GB and games nowadays can take up more than 50GB per install. Only issue is battery life but that's expected due to the power draw of trying to run the latest games. If you're looking to play more than an hour on battery then this may not be the right fit. I don't mind it since I'm usually near an outlet but I could see how it can be annoying since it defeats the purpose of it being portable.