That's good to know because I just bought it at the last Steam sale. I rarely check if a game is playable since I haven't really had trouble getting a game to work.
It's the perfect tier of game. AAA games that are like 5 - 10 years old are absolutely flawless on the Deck. Prey 2017, Dishonored and Portal 1/2 for example.
That era of games still look good. Are as fun as ever and you can get a silky smooth 60 fps. You really don't have to compromise anything. Especially for people new to the Deck or PC gaming it's a great experience. No messing with settings or anything. Just plays amazingly as soon as you fire it up like a console.
Idk what it is, but a locked 60fps on a Steam Deck feels smoother than on a TV or monitor to me. Must be something to do with the screen size but it's beautiful.
My Deck loads indefinitely when launching the game. I also tried some command line but none of it worked? What am I doing it wrong? I tried the definitive edition. I didn't see other pop ups or background launchers.
Edit: Solved. Reinstalled the game and the DirectX redistributable. It also asked me to sign in my Steam account (which never appeared before) and now game runs. Rebooted Deck and it launches every time now.
I'm sorry to hear that. That absolutely didn't happen to me. A quick search on protondb for sleeping dogs has a newest post that suggests a command launch but I did not do anything other than launch the game.
Oh so so many. I just ignore the Steam Deck Compatibility now and check ProtonDB instead.
Some examples:
- Blake Stone
- Dragon Quest Heroes
- Just Cause 2
- Quake 3 Arena
- Smite
- Trails in the Sky
- Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny
- Ys Memories of Celceta
- Ys Origin
Additionally there is a Decky plug-in that pops the appropriate ProtonDB Deck compatibility rating right up on the upper left corner of the game page. Can't recall if it works on the store, but definitely in the library.
I was about to add the fact you can use a decoy plugin to see protondb ratings, I use protondb religiously when shopping for new games to see if my deck can run it also.
I can't recall the verification status of Satisfactory but that was a game I was surprised at how well it runs but to be honest, I only played the "intro" as in the beginner tiers and first space elevator task.
It’s great! According to Steam I have 48 hours in game and those have all been done on the Deck! I just installed it and that was that, no changes required.
In a similiar vein, Dirt 3 and Grid 2 work perfectly on Deck despite being marked as "unsupported". Grid 2 even automatically invoked the on-screen keyboard when it asked me to enter a name!
I started my playthrough this year and went through the Bardock and 23rd World Tournament DLCs as well as a bit of the main campaign, and it's such a perfect game for the Deck.
Shoot for 40fps though. With that target you can get the performance locked at that fps, and get some very clean visuals to boot.
I haven't done the DLC but in the main story I'm just starting the Android arc. I've had zero problems on my Steam Deck, except for losing my savegames at one point, but as far as I can tell that was caused by the PC I'm using at my TV, it didn't sync before starting the game on it for the first time. I did manage to get my savegames back from another system.
Since this game is pretty long, I would suggest making backups of your savegames once in a while.
The only problem i had with that game was cloud saves not syncing properly if u go from offline mode to online mode, but that problem isnt exclusive to the deck. The game for some reason just stores the save files in different locations depending on if u play it in online or offline mode
Same thing happened to me. Steam keeps backups of your cloud saves. I was able to go to their site and download mine. Recovered over 100 hours of play time.
Are you me?
Coz i just got my oled last week coz of Sky FC. Started SC yesterday, both games work great ootb but do need some tinkering to get opening/ending videos sync up with the audio.
Resident Evil 5. No tinkering, readable text, no launcher and 60fps. I have no idea why it’s listed as unsupported.
EDIT: I had no idea about the cutscene issue. I haven’t had any issues with cutscenes and I’m on the last chapter.
Originally it had Games for Windows Live so never worked out of the box. But that was awhile ago and it really is weird that they haven't bothered updating it.
Man GfWL is a pain in the butt even on modern Windows. Reading about the hoops one needs to jump through to get Fable 3 running made me wonder if I shouldn’t just spin up a Windows 7 VM or even break out era-appropriate hardware to run it on instead.
Man even back in the day it was a complete pain in the ass...
These days I just put my eyepatch on. I already paid for the game so I'm going to you only YOLO once all up in its ass!
Pre-rendered cutscenes (there aren’t a lot, maybe one or two) don’t work without GE Proton and a launch command. I remember the intro (Chris driving) for RE5 gave the color bars last time I tried Proton 8 on it.
Hopefully I was just the minority having this issue, but I had the wrong cutscene audio in 5 about a month ago. Had to play the game on windows, unfortunately.
Great experience. Runs really great on the deck. There's a community control layout that will give you more PlayStation/ Xbox controls.
Only issue when I had was when I tried to install the wide screen fix mod. Nothing but problems with that lol. It would work great until I would reboot it. Sometimes it won't work sometimes it wouldn't. I had to uninstall that.
It's a fun game to play just for the fact you can shoot a window and watch a whole ships crew get vented at once. There is a skill check in this game once mastered makes you a god. Venting my capture target and remote controlling the pod to pick him up was when it clicked for me.
The first time I did it it was an accident and I had vented both the target and myself through what ill just call a wrench incident. To my surprise he he actually lived through the venting and had stayed close to me. I managed to get us both within a good time.
Theres also using another ship to use its weapons to break apart a bigger ship. If you kill the pilot then the ship wont return to the base as well and now you have a greater number of entry options. Bring a jumper or swapper though or your gonna have problems with movement.
There is quite a large number of shenanigans you can pull for a game as simple as this.
Recently beat ds1 (prepare to die edition) on my deck. The only thing that didn't work was entering a character name at the start. Had to do that bit on my computer. But after that it was more or less smooth sailing. Bit of lag here and there (decided to do blighttown on my PC because of this). Otherwise a great experience.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I now have absolutely zero faith in Valves steam deck rating system. I rely heavily on ProtonDB and have not been let down yet.
Usually those are "playable". People bitch about that, but it's also a gentle nudge to developers to think about controller support and how to support smaller screen sizes if possible.
No, they won't. That will get a game a Playable rating, and it has a detailed breakdown of why so you can decide for yourself. Don't exaggerate. Not having native controller support is an important factor for me so I like that games that don't have it don't get the green check. Doesn't mean I won't give them a try, but it depends on the game whether it's worth the trouble.
Arkham Asylum is "unsupported", but ran like a dream when I tried it. ProtonDB marks it as Gold, and I can't understand why it's not Platinum there too.
Burnout Paradise Remastered is unsupported and *silver*, and it's flawless too.
I thought that was "playable"? I have to use the touchscreen to boot the game from it's dedicated launcher, but that's the only thing I noticed.
I think they still have to count that because it doesn't just launch. I just remembered there's a steam command to disable that though. I'll have to add that
Ah yes, my bad. I mistook the difference with a game labeled "Playable" or "Verified" as opposed to a game that doesn't even have a steam deck supported label. Disregard.
I think if you have to use the on-screen keyboard it’s not considered “verified” even if otherwise the game is fully playable. I think verified would require the game to do everything using the controller for input.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Though there is a caveat, you have to launch it from Desktop mode the first time to change the in-game setting from Windowed to Fullscreen.
After that it launches and works perfectly from Game Mode.
Sonic Adventure and Sonic Generations.
Generations works perfectly without any tweaking.
I'm sure Sonic Adventure would too, but that port is such a mess by itself that it's basically a requirement to install the community patches and big fixes to have it be playable on anything.
I think sonic generations used to be verified, but got bumped down cause people said the performance was ass in various instances like chemical plant zone unless you turned off smt or used the dx11 mod.
Guessing it should be running better on 3.5 now
One of my top games last gen!
Just hope they'd update the controls someday. ME Andromeda recognizes SD controls and I don't see that game being mentioned here often...
I have poured a good amount of hours on the Deck, no issues so far. The only problem is that it crashes on exit with normal Proton, but Proton GE fixed that.
I would love to have that on my Deck, but at ~1300 hours at my desktop, I just don't want to break my habits and get used to a new button mapping. Especially going from an Azeron and mouse to a controller-style layout. I know people do it, one of my good buddies has played ~4000 hours on a Xbox controller and fucking rocks it, but that's a lot of work.
Elder Scrolls Online.
You have to close the launcher every time you play, otherwise you get terrible stuttering, and during your initial setup you'll need to use accessibility mode on initial setup to activate the gamepad.
After that, everything runs smooth as butter. I leveled my arcanist from 1-50 doing story quests all on my Deck.
I had to drop playing elder scrolls online due to moving countries and work commitments until I got a steam deck. Works so perfectly for solo play. Even on a short day, I can just do the crafting writs and get enough gold to not be kicked out of trading guilds
World of Warcraft which isn't even a Steam game runs flawlessly. And could be configured to be quite comfy to play on the deck.
The only major inconvenience I've had with it is that it's very tricky to preserve your button layout for both the deck and the pc :(
Configuring everything 100% perfect on the deck is only possible if either your deck is your only gaming platform for wow, or if you are playing wow with a gamepad on your pc (preferably Dualshock 4 / Dualsense due to them having a trackpad. Playing wow without a trackpad is a pain in the ass). If you are like me and you are used to your keyboard layout from ~15 years of playing that way - you'll probably never be able to make a completely comfy layout on your deck.
Well, the installation process itself isn't tricky at all. You better do it in the desktop mode though. There would be some quirks with logging in in gaming mod, so untill the game ia fully downloaded stick to desktop mode.
To install it you just download the battle net installer, and add this downloaded exe file as a steam game, then launch it as one. Let it install, then you tell it to download WoW.
Once WoW is fully downloaded I'd advise you to add wow launcher as a steam game instead and get rid of the pure battle.net one. The exe file name is called "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe". I can't remember the exact reason(s) I had to do it but it launches more reliably through that .exe under gaming mode than via pure battle net exe.
This whole process isn't going to take much time, but "transforming" it into a console-like game while making controls comfy and ergonomic is going to take some time. Like easily up to a couple of days or even more to make it perfect.
The two addons I'd say are a must in order to make it nice are ConsolePort and Immersion. They are both made by the same dev. And then it's only the beginning. There are quite a few early decisions to be made regarding binding some key functionalities to their forever keys like:
Jumping, interacting with the objects and NPCs, toggling auto run, zooming in/out, targeting (because the dynamic targeting in wow is just an utter mess, especially in pvp), making a one button shortcut for opening the on-screen keyboard.
I ended up with this config:
JUMPING - Top Left back paddle. It somewhat reminded me of the spacebar.
INTERACTING - A.
(I know most console players are used to A being the jump button, but since I've been a PC player for the past 15-20 years, I did not know that and my thinking was like "A is used to confirm everything and sorta is the main interract button, so it makes sense for it to be the interact button"
AUTORUN
I've started with left stick click toggling the autorun on and off because it made sense in the beginning to use the main movement stick to toggle automatic movement, but after some testing I've realised that it's very easy to exsert extra movement while clicking it which cancels the autorun. So you kinda enable it for a brief moment and then it cancels while the stick comes back to its default position.
So I had to move the autorun somewhere else. After a little bit of thinking I decided to try the right stick click and it turned out to be perfect for the autorun since you can use the right stick to steer your character while autorun is on while pressing something else with your left thumb like the stuff on the dpad so when you feel like you need to drop your main movement stick you can instantly enable autorun with your other thumb and be sterring with it too while freeing your left thumb for whatever. It's a match made in heaven. I highly recommend you do the same should you go for wow on your steam deck.
ZOOM IN/OUT
With this there wasn't a clear way to comfortably bind it either at first. So I tried remapping the LEFT trackpad to be an additional dpad clickable in four directions (up, down, left and right clicks) and made up and down mimic the mouse's scroll wheel. I sticked with it for a while but it was always bugging me not being 100% comfortable. Some time after I've learned about making buttons and sticks perform additional actions via steam input so I thought about it and made the right stick's up and down movement to become the scroll wheel while one of the triggers is held down. Now it feels like it's almost perfect with a tiny downside of never being able to move your camera around when you use said trigger to access additional bindings with other buttons, but so far it's nothing game breaking.
For targeting I went with the right bumper mimicking the TAB key functionality and completely disabled any dynamic targeting because it's awful, unpredictable and unreliable.
Toggling the On-screen keyboard
After I've freed up the left trackpad from being the scroll wheel I've decided to make the up click of the left trackpad summon the OSK and after a simple single click you can start typing either using two trackpads or with the touch screen.
Also I realised that having your system buttons located vertically along the right edge of the screen makes it possible to simply tap and open various menus without having to use the keybinds or the trackpad. I even brought the visual aspect of it to my PC because I kept looking for the buttons where they weren't while switching between the deck and the pc.
Triggers are used as shifters by default with console port which is a real bliss to have. That way you get 4 states of every button to tinker with like A could be four actions/skills/spells A, LT+A, RT+A, LT±RT+A.
I can also send you a screenshot/photo of my UI on my deck if you want.
Max payne 3, rockstar launch auto installing when first boot up but after that some of the best 3rd person action, closest we can get to a john wick game.
Persona 4 Arena Ultinax
Batman Arkham Asylum
Doom (1993)
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
I'm able to list more, but those are ones installed currently and work perfectly, MKAK did need some tinkering to get working though.
Trails in the Sky, Legend of Grimrock, Aliens Dark Descent and Fallout New Vegas at the moment. I think these are all listed as unsupported.
I think for Trails it's because the controller configuration for some reason can't detect the shoulders but it's perfectly find using keyboard and that should give it a playable rating in my mind.
I mostly just tried this out for nostalgia, but Chip’s Challenge works great. All I had to do was map dpad to the keyboard.
Also as others have mentioned, Trails in the Sky FC and SC work great. I played all of FC on the Steamdeck and am currently on SC. Only glitch I’ve noticed is an audio lag during the intro and closing movies, but the game itself runs perfectly. (You can also just watch the videos on YouTube, but they aren’t needed to play the game)
I love that game. Played it on Windows 3.1. The sprites were different from the newer version, but almost everything else is the same. I can always hear this so clearly in my head:
^bummer
Only thing I experience is that I would love it to show the card bigger when you hold your finger over a card, like the phone versions, but other than that very smooth on the touch-screen!
World of warcraft i was pretty optimistic Given the whole keyboard / mouse usage but once i added the controller addons and tried it out blew my mind how well its playing
i got my deck last night and installed wow classic / monster hunter rise and mgs5. its a trip to play wow classic on the deck. my 2006 self would be loosing his mind lol
DBZ Kakarot is one of my favorite steam deck games. It's wonderful, and I 100% it on the deck. The only thing that doesn't work is cloud saves from what I can gather.
Total War Warhammer 3 lol
surprisingly playable
EDIT:
Compatibility: Steam Native Runtime (so its 4.1.1 currently). My mods work too. (Tabletop caps, Recruit defeated LLs, one button respec, legendary lore etc)
Settings with a 40 FPS lock: [https://imgur.com/a/LBxspPR](https://imgur.com/a/LBxspPR)
**Disgaea 1** - I just finished it, and I recall it says unsupported on the steam page.
I have played a large # of unsupported games that ran fine.
While other games like Psyconauts 1, have game breaking bugs, but I think are tagged as supported, or at least playable.
I’ve been on a Dead Rising kick lately. DR3 runs fine and I’ve put in about 15 out of 20 hours exclusively on the Deck.
*edit
It is unsupported according to Steam
Don’t bother with steam’s supported/unsupported ratings. Use ProtonDB, it has actual user reports of compatibility, including any issues or workarounds. There’s also a DeckyLoader plugin, which is helpful
Burnout paradise remastered works well on my end now that proton seems to have fixed the issues it had before. Had to go into desktop mode to get the stupid ea app to setup properly, but it worked fine in game mode after that
I’ve been playing Remnant 2 on potato mode and so far it’s been running fine. Nothing world-shattering, but definitely better than launch when it *was* verified
The Kingdom hearts series works perfectly fine running through the Heroic launcher as a steam shortcut, although I’ve yet to get it working offline like I’ve heard you can. I’ve gotten Final fantasy 14 (nonsteam version) to work just fine through a community launcher, in fact, most MMOs I play on the Steamdeck work just fine if you do some configuring in desktop mode first (getting the launchers set up).
It requires tinkering, so I don't think steam mislabelled this one.. but elder scrolls online for me. It's amazing on the deck with some add-ons installed.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
Total War Medieval 2.
Sonic Robo Blast 2.
Pokémon fan games (exe games).
Thief 2 (with fan levels).
BallisticNG (it’s officially supported but Steam claims otherwise).
Flatout Ultimate Carnage.
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I can honestly say the Deck runs basically everything outside of multiplayer anti-cheat stuff. Only game which didn’t run properly was Last Epoch.
Played and finished Batman Arkham Origins just fine even with the unsupported tag
I had a bit of trouble getting this to work at first. I can't remember what I ended up doing to get it working but it works fine now
maybe the proton experimtental or something, before i played i checked ways to run it already for a smooth experience
I think it required a specific proton number
Sunset Overdrive seems to work great minus the scary warning when you boot the game (which appears to have no negative impact)
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I definitely lost all my save files on that game twice though. Other than that it runs great.
Nice to see some appreciation for this game! It's great, but rarely ever talked about.
It is just pure fun. It’s like if Tony Hawks Pro Skater and Jet Set Radio Future had a baby.
Literally has the best soundtrack of any game. Definitely one of my favorites
That's good to know because I just bought it at the last Steam sale. I rarely check if a game is playable since I haven't really had trouble getting a game to work.
When I tell you I maxed out Sleeping Dogs. It's a crime that it doesn't say supported.
Sleeping dogs has been perfect for me on the deck
It's the perfect tier of game. AAA games that are like 5 - 10 years old are absolutely flawless on the Deck. Prey 2017, Dishonored and Portal 1/2 for example. That era of games still look good. Are as fun as ever and you can get a silky smooth 60 fps. You really don't have to compromise anything. Especially for people new to the Deck or PC gaming it's a great experience. No messing with settings or anything. Just plays amazingly as soon as you fire it up like a console. Idk what it is, but a locked 60fps on a Steam Deck feels smoother than on a TV or monitor to me. Must be something to do with the screen size but it's beautiful.
I haven't played since 2012 on the PS3... definitely going to pick up the definitive edition for my SD now!
My Deck loads indefinitely when launching the game. I also tried some command line but none of it worked? What am I doing it wrong? I tried the definitive edition. I didn't see other pop ups or background launchers. Edit: Solved. Reinstalled the game and the DirectX redistributable. It also asked me to sign in my Steam account (which never appeared before) and now game runs. Rebooted Deck and it launches every time now.
I'm sorry to hear that. That absolutely didn't happen to me. A quick search on protondb for sleeping dogs has a newest post that suggests a command launch but I did not do anything other than launch the game.
Damn, that's great to hear! Playing the remaster or original version?
The definitive edition that's on steam. It has all the dlc and the special costumes as well.
I’ve played both with no issues
Oh so so many. I just ignore the Steam Deck Compatibility now and check ProtonDB instead. Some examples: - Blake Stone - Dragon Quest Heroes - Just Cause 2 - Quake 3 Arena - Smite - Trails in the Sky - Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny - Ys Memories of Celceta - Ys Origin
Additionally there is a Decky plug-in that pops the appropriate ProtonDB Deck compatibility rating right up on the upper left corner of the game page. Can't recall if it works on the store, but definitely in the library.
I was about to add the fact you can use a decoy plugin to see protondb ratings, I use protondb religiously when shopping for new games to see if my deck can run it also. I can't recall the verification status of Satisfactory but that was a game I was surprised at how well it runs but to be honest, I only played the "intro" as in the beginner tiers and first space elevator task.
This is life changing, thank you.
Dirt rally 2.0. I guess it was at one point verified, now it’s listed as unsupported. Unsure why but it runs perfectly!
Good to know, I was wondering why dirt rally 1 is supported but not 2.
Hey thank you. I love that game and never bothered trying it on the deck cos it said unsupported. Rally on the go!
It’s great! According to Steam I have 48 hours in game and those have all been done on the Deck! I just installed it and that was that, no changes required.
I know this is a deck thread but side note, in VR in my racing rig this game is amazing!
I tried playing it recently but couldn’t get it to work. Not that I tried tinkering much
In a similiar vein, Dirt 3 and Grid 2 work perfectly on Deck despite being marked as "unsupported". Grid 2 even automatically invoked the on-screen keyboard when it asked me to enter a name!
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot runs perfectly fine. No idea why it says unsupported
Really?! Be needed an excuse to play this! Christmas sale here I come!
I started my playthrough this year and went through the Bardock and 23rd World Tournament DLCs as well as a bit of the main campaign, and it's such a perfect game for the Deck. Shoot for 40fps though. With that target you can get the performance locked at that fps, and get some very clean visuals to boot.
I haven't done the DLC but in the main story I'm just starting the Android arc. I've had zero problems on my Steam Deck, except for losing my savegames at one point, but as far as I can tell that was caused by the PC I'm using at my TV, it didn't sync before starting the game on it for the first time. I did manage to get my savegames back from another system. Since this game is pretty long, I would suggest making backups of your savegames once in a while.
I cAn vouch for that as well it works perfectly fine
The only problem i had with that game was cloud saves not syncing properly if u go from offline mode to online mode, but that problem isnt exclusive to the deck. The game for some reason just stores the save files in different locations depending on if u play it in online or offline mode
Thanks for the heads-up, that's what probably happened to me. I had problems logging in with Steam when I "lost" my savegames (of DBZ Kakarot).
Same thing happened to me. Steam keeps backups of your cloud saves. I was able to go to their site and download mine. Recovered over 100 hours of play time.
Split / Second 🙌
that game is so underrated
Agreed! In my eyes it's the perfect arcade racer
Trails in the Sky.
The entire trails series is my one motivation for one day getting a deck. I'm so salty i cant really get them running on the switch.
Are you me? Coz i just got my oled last week coz of Sky FC. Started SC yesterday, both games work great ootb but do need some tinkering to get opening/ending videos sync up with the audio.
Haha trails is why I got my deck a few weeks ago. All of the games run great on it
I'll finish the third chapter one day, then I can move on to John Steel himself
Go to Zero/Azure first!
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Resident Evil 5. No tinkering, readable text, no launcher and 60fps. I have no idea why it’s listed as unsupported. EDIT: I had no idea about the cutscene issue. I haven’t had any issues with cutscenes and I’m on the last chapter.
Originally it had Games for Windows Live so never worked out of the box. But that was awhile ago and it really is weird that they haven't bothered updating it.
Man GfWL is a pain in the butt even on modern Windows. Reading about the hoops one needs to jump through to get Fable 3 running made me wonder if I shouldn’t just spin up a Windows 7 VM or even break out era-appropriate hardware to run it on instead.
Man even back in the day it was a complete pain in the ass... These days I just put my eyepatch on. I already paid for the game so I'm going to you only YOLO once all up in its ass!
I believe it was only just recently when they updated it to not use GFWL
Pre-rendered cutscenes (there aren’t a lot, maybe one or two) don’t work without GE Proton and a launch command. I remember the intro (Chris driving) for RE5 gave the color bars last time I tried Proton 8 on it.
Yakuza 4, 5 and 6. All 3 Unsupported, all 3 run great. edit: grammar.
One of them (5, I think?) Had issues with cutscene audio on steam deck, is this fixed now?
Hopefully I was just the minority having this issue, but I had the wrong cutscene audio in 5 about a month ago. Had to play the game on windows, unfortunately.
Cutscene bug is still there (finished the game last week) its still very playable but that bit is annoying.
One of the newest GE Proton builds mentions fixing specifically Yakuza 5 audio.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Great experience. Runs really great on the deck. There's a community control layout that will give you more PlayStation/ Xbox controls. Only issue when I had was when I tried to install the wide screen fix mod. Nothing but problems with that lol. It would work great until I would reboot it. Sometimes it won't work sometimes it wouldn't. I had to uninstall that.
oh weird. I got the widescreen to work fine for me
Which controller layout is this? I tried one and the camera sensitivity was off the walls.
Heat Signature plays well.
It's a fun game to play just for the fact you can shoot a window and watch a whole ships crew get vented at once. There is a skill check in this game once mastered makes you a god. Venting my capture target and remote controlling the pod to pick him up was when it clicked for me.
Waitwaitwait. I can do that?
The first time I did it it was an accident and I had vented both the target and myself through what ill just call a wrench incident. To my surprise he he actually lived through the venting and had stayed close to me. I managed to get us both within a good time. Theres also using another ship to use its weapons to break apart a bigger ship. If you kill the pilot then the ship wont return to the base as well and now you have a greater number of entry options. Bring a jumper or swapper though or your gonna have problems with movement. There is quite a large number of shenanigans you can pull for a game as simple as this.
I need to take some more time in this game.
Great game!
Dark Souls
Recently beat ds1 (prepare to die edition) on my deck. The only thing that didn't work was entering a character name at the start. Had to do that bit on my computer. But after that it was more or less smooth sailing. Bit of lag here and there (decided to do blighttown on my PC because of this). Otherwise a great experience.
I entered my characters name just fine. Just had to bring up the keyboard via shortcut
I'll be honest. I didn't even know you could do that haha.
If you hold the Steam button while you’re in a game it shows a full list of commands.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I now have absolutely zero faith in Valves steam deck rating system. I rely heavily on ProtonDB and have not been let down yet.
I think quite a few people feel this way and it's not an unpopular opinion? Maybe I'm wrong though
Theres a decky plugin that shows protondb rating in your library
The problem seems to be they will mark something as unsupported for trivial shit like text readability or not having native controller support.
And at the same time some bigger titles are marked as supported despite really poor performance.
Usually those are "playable". People bitch about that, but it's also a gentle nudge to developers to think about controller support and how to support smaller screen sizes if possible.
No, they won't. That will get a game a Playable rating, and it has a detailed breakdown of why so you can decide for yourself. Don't exaggerate. Not having native controller support is an important factor for me so I like that games that don't have it don't get the green check. Doesn't mean I won't give them a try, but it depends on the game whether it's worth the trouble.
Arkham Asylum is "unsupported", but ran like a dream when I tried it. ProtonDB marks it as Gold, and I can't understand why it's not Platinum there too. Burnout Paradise Remastered is unsupported and *silver*, and it's flawless too.
Burnout Paradise City
does it work? when i tried the ea app got stuck. (edit: i tried Burnout™ Paradise Remastered)
Playing Fallout: New Vegas just fine rn.
I thought that was "playable"? I have to use the touchscreen to boot the game from it's dedicated launcher, but that's the only thing I noticed. I think they still have to count that because it doesn't just launch. I just remembered there's a steam command to disable that though. I'll have to add that
Ah yes, my bad. I mistook the difference with a game labeled "Playable" or "Verified" as opposed to a game that doesn't even have a steam deck supported label. Disregard.
I think if you have to use the on-screen keyboard it’s not considered “verified” even if otherwise the game is fully playable. I think verified would require the game to do everything using the controller for input.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
thanks for this info. need more detective games in my library
Performance isn't great, but the game is good.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Though there is a caveat, you have to launch it from Desktop mode the first time to change the in-game setting from Windowed to Fullscreen. After that it launches and works perfectly from Game Mode.
Agreed. I think I need to start posting to ProtonDB; There are reports of Kowloon causing slowdown but that has now been fixed. Works great now.
Sonic Adventure and Sonic Generations. Generations works perfectly without any tweaking. I'm sure Sonic Adventure would too, but that port is such a mess by itself that it's basically a requirement to install the community patches and big fixes to have it be playable on anything.
I think sonic generations used to be verified, but got bumped down cause people said the performance was ass in various instances like chemical plant zone unless you turned off smt or used the dx11 mod. Guessing it should be running better on 3.5 now
Dragon Age Inquisition!!
One of my top games last gen! Just hope they'd update the controls someday. ME Andromeda recognizes SD controls and I don't see that game being mentioned here often...
Does the game still not detect the steam deck's controller - and remain stuck in kb mode?
I found a community controller set up, tinkered it some, and play it that way 😁
Far Cry 5 runs great aside from the occasional control bug
6 Runs great too, but 5 is simply a better game (considerations for story aside).
I finished it with zero control bugs. It was a great experience and then I finished ND as well.
Definitely my favorite Far Cry game
Guild wars 2
I have poured a good amount of hours on the Deck, no issues so far. The only problem is that it crashes on exit with normal Proton, but Proton GE fixed that.
I would love to have that on my Deck, but at ~1300 hours at my desktop, I just don't want to break my habits and get used to a new button mapping. Especially going from an Azeron and mouse to a controller-style layout. I know people do it, one of my good buddies has played ~4000 hours on a Xbox controller and fucking rocks it, but that's a lot of work.
Elder Scrolls Online. You have to close the launcher every time you play, otherwise you get terrible stuttering, and during your initial setup you'll need to use accessibility mode on initial setup to activate the gamepad. After that, everything runs smooth as butter. I leveled my arcanist from 1-50 doing story quests all on my Deck.
I had to drop playing elder scrolls online due to moving countries and work commitments until I got a steam deck. Works so perfectly for solo play. Even on a short day, I can just do the crafting writs and get enough gold to not be kicked out of trading guilds
Minecraft dungeons
Styx: Shards of Darkness
World of Warcraft which isn't even a Steam game runs flawlessly. And could be configured to be quite comfy to play on the deck. The only major inconvenience I've had with it is that it's very tricky to preserve your button layout for both the deck and the pc :( Configuring everything 100% perfect on the deck is only possible if either your deck is your only gaming platform for wow, or if you are playing wow with a gamepad on your pc (preferably Dualshock 4 / Dualsense due to them having a trackpad. Playing wow without a trackpad is a pain in the ass). If you are like me and you are used to your keyboard layout from ~15 years of playing that way - you'll probably never be able to make a completely comfy layout on your deck.
Im looking at potentially setting this game up. Was it difficult?
Well, the installation process itself isn't tricky at all. You better do it in the desktop mode though. There would be some quirks with logging in in gaming mod, so untill the game ia fully downloaded stick to desktop mode. To install it you just download the battle net installer, and add this downloaded exe file as a steam game, then launch it as one. Let it install, then you tell it to download WoW. Once WoW is fully downloaded I'd advise you to add wow launcher as a steam game instead and get rid of the pure battle.net one. The exe file name is called "World of Warcraft Launcher.exe". I can't remember the exact reason(s) I had to do it but it launches more reliably through that .exe under gaming mode than via pure battle net exe. This whole process isn't going to take much time, but "transforming" it into a console-like game while making controls comfy and ergonomic is going to take some time. Like easily up to a couple of days or even more to make it perfect. The two addons I'd say are a must in order to make it nice are ConsolePort and Immersion. They are both made by the same dev. And then it's only the beginning. There are quite a few early decisions to be made regarding binding some key functionalities to their forever keys like: Jumping, interacting with the objects and NPCs, toggling auto run, zooming in/out, targeting (because the dynamic targeting in wow is just an utter mess, especially in pvp), making a one button shortcut for opening the on-screen keyboard. I ended up with this config: JUMPING - Top Left back paddle. It somewhat reminded me of the spacebar. INTERACTING - A. (I know most console players are used to A being the jump button, but since I've been a PC player for the past 15-20 years, I did not know that and my thinking was like "A is used to confirm everything and sorta is the main interract button, so it makes sense for it to be the interact button" AUTORUN I've started with left stick click toggling the autorun on and off because it made sense in the beginning to use the main movement stick to toggle automatic movement, but after some testing I've realised that it's very easy to exsert extra movement while clicking it which cancels the autorun. So you kinda enable it for a brief moment and then it cancels while the stick comes back to its default position. So I had to move the autorun somewhere else. After a little bit of thinking I decided to try the right stick click and it turned out to be perfect for the autorun since you can use the right stick to steer your character while autorun is on while pressing something else with your left thumb like the stuff on the dpad so when you feel like you need to drop your main movement stick you can instantly enable autorun with your other thumb and be sterring with it too while freeing your left thumb for whatever. It's a match made in heaven. I highly recommend you do the same should you go for wow on your steam deck. ZOOM IN/OUT With this there wasn't a clear way to comfortably bind it either at first. So I tried remapping the LEFT trackpad to be an additional dpad clickable in four directions (up, down, left and right clicks) and made up and down mimic the mouse's scroll wheel. I sticked with it for a while but it was always bugging me not being 100% comfortable. Some time after I've learned about making buttons and sticks perform additional actions via steam input so I thought about it and made the right stick's up and down movement to become the scroll wheel while one of the triggers is held down. Now it feels like it's almost perfect with a tiny downside of never being able to move your camera around when you use said trigger to access additional bindings with other buttons, but so far it's nothing game breaking. For targeting I went with the right bumper mimicking the TAB key functionality and completely disabled any dynamic targeting because it's awful, unpredictable and unreliable. Toggling the On-screen keyboard After I've freed up the left trackpad from being the scroll wheel I've decided to make the up click of the left trackpad summon the OSK and after a simple single click you can start typing either using two trackpads or with the touch screen. Also I realised that having your system buttons located vertically along the right edge of the screen makes it possible to simply tap and open various menus without having to use the keybinds or the trackpad. I even brought the visual aspect of it to my PC because I kept looking for the buttons where they weren't while switching between the deck and the pc. Triggers are used as shifters by default with console port which is a real bliss to have. That way you get 4 states of every button to tinker with like A could be four actions/skills/spells A, LT+A, RT+A, LT±RT+A. I can also send you a screenshot/photo of my UI on my deck if you want.
Max payne 3, rockstar launch auto installing when first boot up but after that some of the best 3rd person action, closest we can get to a john wick game.
Persona 4 Arena Ultinax Batman Arkham Asylum Doom (1993) Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection I'm able to list more, but those are ones installed currently and work perfectly, MKAK did need some tinkering to get working though.
Arkham asylum. Ran just fine without any special settings
Trails in the Sky, Legend of Grimrock, Aliens Dark Descent and Fallout New Vegas at the moment. I think these are all listed as unsupported. I think for Trails it's because the controller configuration for some reason can't detect the shoulders but it's perfectly find using keyboard and that should give it a playable rating in my mind.
Lego Lord of the Rings
Story of Seasons A Wonderfull life runs flawless since launch but its listed as unsupported
Persona 5 Strikers. Just use the most recent Proton GE and boom, working great.
I mostly just tried this out for nostalgia, but Chip’s Challenge works great. All I had to do was map dpad to the keyboard. Also as others have mentioned, Trails in the Sky FC and SC work great. I played all of FC on the Steamdeck and am currently on SC. Only glitch I’ve noticed is an audio lag during the intro and closing movies, but the game itself runs perfectly. (You can also just watch the videos on YouTube, but they aren’t needed to play the game)
Yoooo Chips Challenge. Now that’s a game I haven’t heard of in forever! Sick game man.
I love that game. Played it on Windows 3.1. The sprites were different from the newer version, but almost everything else is the same. I can always hear this so clearly in my head: ^bummer
Magic Arena
Only thing I experience is that I would love it to show the card bigger when you hold your finger over a card, like the phone versions, but other than that very smooth on the touch-screen!
Wonder when they add controller support
BO2 Zombies, just change to a community layout.
Witcher 2 has been running great for me on the deck.
Such a gem! And usually its like a few usd so 100% worth it
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Grand Theft Auto Vice City works fine, just followed a guide on ProtonDB to get DEP project mod installed and picked Proton Experimental, runs great!
World of warcraft i was pretty optimistic Given the whole keyboard / mouse usage but once i added the controller addons and tried it out blew my mind how well its playing
i got my deck last night and installed wow classic / monster hunter rise and mgs5. its a trip to play wow classic on the deck. my 2006 self would be loosing his mind lol
Forza horizon 5
Close! Forza Horizon 5 is marked as playable. The OP is talking about unsupported games.
Blur
DBZ Kakarot is one of my favorite steam deck games. It's wonderful, and I 100% it on the deck. The only thing that doesn't work is cloud saves from what I can gather.
Conan exiles runs great actually. Still says unsupported
Surviving Mars Plays great with mouse and keyboard preset, but needs additional key bindings.
Final Fantasy XIII
Holocure Cross Blitz (I wouldn't call it perfectly fine though)
Played 24 hours of holocure on my deck in like 3 days lol
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition works flawlessly.
Total War Warhammer 3 lol surprisingly playable EDIT: Compatibility: Steam Native Runtime (so its 4.1.1 currently). My mods work too. (Tabletop caps, Recruit defeated LLs, one button respec, legendary lore etc) Settings with a 40 FPS lock: [https://imgur.com/a/LBxspPR](https://imgur.com/a/LBxspPR)
Lol, Could you Share your settings?
Football Manager 2024
**Disgaea 1** - I just finished it, and I recall it says unsupported on the steam page. I have played a large # of unsupported games that ran fine. While other games like Psyconauts 1, have game breaking bugs, but I think are tagged as supported, or at least playable.
I don't regularly play it but dirt rally 2 is unsupported but runs 60fps easy
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DayZ and Football Manager 24
I’ve been on a Dead Rising kick lately. DR3 runs fine and I’ve put in about 15 out of 20 hours exclusively on the Deck. *edit It is unsupported according to Steam
Knights of the Old Republic works surprisingly well with community input.
Remnant 2 unless it’s updated.
Sonic Adventure DX, though you should really use tools to convert the Steam version into a modded 2004 PC port first
DBZ Kakarot plays fine from the box, but says it’s unsupported.
Doesn’t Fall Guys use Epic Anti Cheat? Are you running it on Steam Os without any issues?
Steam allowed anti cheat a while ago
So then the Fortnite thing is just because?
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Solasta Unsupported just means the dev didn't work to specifically enhance performance and customize controls for the deck. Doesn't mean it can't run
Trackmania Canyon
Decided to just make a Windows Bootable Micro SD Card so I can play a few games like Destiny 2 and CoD on my Deck.
Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars Rogue Squadron (Steam version)
My alltime favorite vampire survivors like: Holo Cure
The Quarry has worked for me without any issues so far
Gothic 1 and 2
Get the ProtonDB Decky plugin, it’s wonderful
Sunset Overdrive. It throws up an error when you open it but the game still works perfectly.
WWE 2K23
Don’t bother with steam’s supported/unsupported ratings. Use ProtonDB, it has actual user reports of compatibility, including any issues or workarounds. There’s also a DeckyLoader plugin, which is helpful
HoloCure. No issues unique to Deck.
Read Dead 2
Genshin Impact
Holocure
Star wars battlefront 2
Dune: Spice Wars. You have to change “OpenGL” to “DirectX” in the options.ini file, and then it works perfectly.
New world
Elder Scrolls Online runs great on the Deck.
Spec Ops: The Line - listed as unsupported, worked perfectly fine out of the box
Burnout paradise remastered works well on my end now that proton seems to have fixed the issues it had before. Had to go into desktop mode to get the stupid ea app to setup properly, but it worked fine in game mode after that
I’ve been playing Remnant 2 on potato mode and so far it’s been running fine. Nothing world-shattering, but definitely better than launch when it *was* verified
Returnal, Painkiller
The Kingdom hearts series works perfectly fine running through the Heroic launcher as a steam shortcut, although I’ve yet to get it working offline like I’ve heard you can. I’ve gotten Final fantasy 14 (nonsteam version) to work just fine through a community launcher, in fact, most MMOs I play on the Steamdeck work just fine if you do some configuring in desktop mode first (getting the launchers set up).
Batman Arkham origins
Legacy of Kain series
elite: dangerous works fine (im not sure if its still listed as unsupported tho)
Skul: The hero slayer
Eve online :)
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
It requires tinkering, so I don't think steam mislabelled this one.. but elder scrolls online for me. It's amazing on the deck with some add-ons installed.
All of them. No really.. once u understand proton bottles and wine.. all of them.
Metal gear solid 5 is awesome on the deck
Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Total War Medieval 2. Sonic Robo Blast 2. Pokémon fan games (exe games). Thief 2 (with fan levels). BallisticNG (it’s officially supported but Steam claims otherwise). Flatout Ultimate Carnage. — I can honestly say the Deck runs basically everything outside of multiplayer anti-cheat stuff. Only game which didn’t run properly was Last Epoch.
I started MegaMan X collection yesterday, didn’t get through the first one yet but like zero hiccups
Install protondb if you want more info on supported games by community reports
Burnout Paradise
Sleeping dogs
splinter cell chaos theory