Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent gaming handheld and portable computer. Super powerful. Very responsive. I really like all the features. Battery life is not the best, but it is as expected.

The ally is great only issue is battery life but other than that a wonderful purchase highly recommend especially from best buy

Good device and does what it's supposed to do. Knocked off a five star because best buy sent me a code that is invalid for game pass and I'm pretty upset about that.

Works very well and expands the enjoyment of having a computer that is mobile. Works so well when away from home.

The Ally is a great handheld with a remarkable screen. I own this and the SteamDeck and definitely prefer this over the SteamDeck. If I were to rate this product when I first purchased it I would have likely rated it 4 stars due to some of its limitations (specifically inability to charge at full capacity unless you used the provided Asus charger), but Asus has done a really good job with providing regular software updates and continues to make positive, iterative quality of life improvements on the device. I would definitely recommend to anyone interested!

Its a good device but not for every body. This thing is very powerful but the battery drains very quickly and i feel like many people cant enjoy the games when played on that small of a screen

The Rog Ally is “A game changer” (pun intended). I can play ALL my Steam games and more on it. If i’m playing a difficult level, I can pause, go into Windows 11, and browse the web to find help! The build is high quality and the Armory Crate management software is always improving. If you are looking for long battery life, buy a Nintendo Switch. But If you want to play AAA PC games for an hour or two with the ability to fast charge or play while plugged in for longer play time, this is an amazing device to do it on!

This is the best gaming habdgeld ive ever owner i would advise you swap the ssd to a bigger and not use a sd card for aaa games. Other than that five stars.

Something about playing video games on a dedicated gaming device just makes it more fun for me. I already have tons of steam games and this can run all but the most poorly optimized (struggles with a basic RTS called Northgard that it should be able to run haha). I just beat Elden Ring on this thing. It's great! Just be sure to buy a bigger SSD, you can even get an adapter to allow fun size NVME SSDs which are way cheaper.

The title is brutal but the review is honest. As someone who has reviewed IT over the past 30 years and a huge ASUS Rog fan, I expected a lot from this unit. Full disclosure, I have a Steam Deck (SD). The weight of Ally is good, lighter than SD, and more comfortable to hold for long lengths of time. The screen is bright and is also a touchscreen. Buttons are good and are laid out similar to SD without the trackpads. Where this unit falls short is the Windows 11 OS. ASUS should have reached out to Valve to license the SteamOS for this unit. Putting Steam in Big Picture mode does provide a similar navigation effect to the SD but for some reason, Windows 11 wants to display the taskbar at the bottom no matter what. Of course, I can auto-hide the taskbar (but you shouldn't have to.) For Microsoft this is a huge missed opportunity to break into a portable gaming unit for the XBOX. xCloud or XBOX Pass should have been an automatic start and overlay for this unit. The main purpose for Ally is for gaming so while having a full desktop OS is nice, it should have been buried like SteamOS is currently set on SD. Conclusion: If you want an SD, this is not going to work for you. If you want a portable gaming system based on the latest Ryzen Tech, this will work but understand the limitations of Windows 11 on this small device. I cannot recommend this to beginners or novice users.

This handheld was worth every penny, runs great, is easy to hold and very lightweight. Only downside is the battery life

Runs pretty well, hooked it up to meta quest 3 and it ran all the vr steam games on medium ( still better then meta native games).. go with the x if you have the money.. the only egpu these work with are theirs and they expensive.. cost more then a regular gpu...

Awesome powerful handheld device. You can take this anywhere,anytime wherever you want to. A must have portable handheld device. 100 percent satisfaction

Love it! Plays everything i want and i can take it anywhere. Battery is okay, i get about an hour or so of straight play time.

Best bang for your buck portable gaming device! Z1Extreme is fast and powerful!

I love this thing! I am a PCMR type person but when everyone is asleep and i feel like laying down i can play my pc games in bed so its a seamless jump going from my pc to this in bed. Battery life isnt a issue for me since its always plugged in, my vehicles have a 100watt 110v plug in them. Super comfortable to hold, super powerful compared to the steam deck and the last of track pads is a huge plus for me as i hate track pads on the steam deck. I added a 1tb gen 4 m.2, 9h screen protector, asus dock, 3d printed a stand and dust cover for the external gpu socket that only leaves the usb c exposed.

It's better than any other portable console. Rivals gaming laptops in power, I love mine

I love this thing especially with the long commute I have, this offers hours of entertainment.

I take my Asus rog ally to work everyday and it has been a great time, i get to llay diablo 4 durijg my break making sure i dont miss any raids and challenges.

I got this to test against other handhelds and while the software is still a work in progres. For me I like this one the most because its light, it directs heat away from my hands on gaming, and I dont have to worry about compatibility with games. The only really big issue I have with it is that I can’t use a third-party GPU enclosure as an externalt GPU. I really hope Microsoft comes out with a handheld version of windows so it can free up some processing power