Try, https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative . Unlike steam link gamesnative let's you download and play steam games natively on android. I dont know how good it works on handhelds though. Haven't used it much myself.
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I never knew this was a thing!! Thank you for sharing
Gamenative is pretty awesome, and works great for a lot of games. Also, consider referencing/contributing to Emuready https://www.emuready.com/ as well!
Thank you for the suggestion. I did mention in my post that gamenative doesn't work with Silksong yet.
You did mention it, sorry must have missed that. Well You can try Pluvia. https://github.com/oxters168/Pluvia
Gamesnative is just fork of pluvia, the main difference is that Pluvia only let's you play DRM free games. And I checked that Silksong on steam is DRM free.
I'll look that up and see if it works. Thank you.
Pluvia did not work either, unfortunately. It just gives me a error window: 
Well, I guess your last option are gamehub or streamlink. There are lots of videos on YouTube explaining how to get winlator working. But I'd suggest just play it on PC. It will be a better experience.
Well you could install the chinese app GameHub and logged your steam account in ^^'
I already mentioned I'd rather not use that one if possible. Thanks anyway though.
I do understand lol I'm not either.
Why not stream it from Steam Link or via Game Pass?
I'd prefer to run the game natively if possible. Streaming is pretty viable, but I'd rather not run two devices and if I'm running my pc I'd probably just rather play it on there anyway.
What issues are you having with Winlator? I got the first game running on it a while ago and I assume the 2nd one should work too, any errors?
I tried using the winlator cmod and it would not register controller input for me. This is the video I was referencing: https://youtu.be/fr9N8lHzU1U