You won’t enjoy pleasurable space exploration on the Deck, nor will you get a consistent framerate. If you do insist on playing on the Deck, there are a few ways to make the experience a little more bearable.
God of War Ragnarok gets an official release date on the Steam Store, but Steam Deck fans are left uncertain about its fate on the handheld.
I don't see it running any good on the steamdeck but maybe if they introduce enough options to lower the settings it might run semi decent.
Its literally a PS4 game, and likely will be able to lower settings even lower than that.
Assume low and medium settings, FSR2 Quality mode 720p, and an unstable 45fps or a stable 40fps like any other PS4 era port (Uncharted 4 for example). It'll be fine on the Deck if it's your only option
Amplitude beat me to it. I'd like to add that games like returnal and ratchet and clank rift apart run on the deck and those are actual ps5 games.
It should sense the games were made for hardware 12 years ago
Do not forget your precious god of war was made for the ps4 console first a console wayyy weaker than the steamdeck.
Most games listed as playable are only that way due to needing to use the on-screen keyboard or some adjacent thing.
I bet you it might be down to the stupid psn crap were it needs the server handshake or some bs for the trophies to work.
It depends on your definition of good I guess. I use my Steam deck to play my games natively when I'm away from my PC so admittedly when I'm on the deck fidelity doesn't matter as much to me.
Steam Deck officially supports a massive amount of games, easily providing players more choice than what is available on the Nintendo Switch.
It's much larger than that, if you factor emulation and how easy it is to run pretty much any "unsupported" game on the Deck using Bottles.
It's insane how most games I've thrown at it have worked with little to no effort on my part, some of my games run better on Linux than Windows.
Even without emulation, it’s massively broader than switch. This is so obvious I’m surprised it’s merited an article.
You'll enjoy it, I only got the 512GB model because I wasn't sure if I'd like it, I should have bought the 1TB model, but I guess I can add in a 2TB drive when SSD prices relax again.
I actually played Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on it a few days ago.
Starfield's recent player spike is a good sign, but Bethesda desperately need to line up their Cyberpunk 2077 moment.
I feel like the second big update that releases late this year will do just that. Part of the story expansion is also new means of transportation on planets.
What player spike?
I checked steamcharts through the link in the article and it went from 8,000 to 11.500, so yea 20% but when the game peaked at 330,000 It's safe to say that the actual effect of this update was negligible.
Doubt it'll ever get redemption. As many developers have said in various interviews it's beyond saving.
Just release the mod tools and expansion and move on.
Cyberpunk 2077 had some strong bones i disliked it on launch because I could see the potential I could see the strengths of what they wanted to achieve but it wasn't done yet
I'd wait a few weeks for Proton patches - I bet it'll get smoothed out.
fwiw this author doesn't mention some steam decks come with 512GB SSDs so this game isn't too big.