STEAM DECK NOTES — HOW THE DEMO PLAYS ON DECK

STEAM DECK NOTES — HOW THE DEMO PLAYS ON DECK

WHAT WORKS OUT OF THE BOX

- Full controller support. Every action — steering, targeting, all five

  abilities, warp, pause, collapse — is on the pad with proper button

  glyphs, and every binding can be changed in Settings -> VIEW CONTROLS.

  Keyboard and mouse are never required.

- Deck-aware first launch. The game detects the Deck and starts in

  fullscreen with the PERFORMANCE graphics profile and VSync on — the

  smooth, battery-friendly setup. You can change any of it in Settings.

- Vulkan renderer by default, which is what the Deck wants anyway.

- No launcher, no account, no Windows-only prompts. Launch and play.

- Text size: if the HUD reads small on the handheld screen, Settings ->

  ACCESSIBILITY has a UI SCALE option up to 150%.

ONE THING TO KNOW

- The SEEDED RUN screen has a text box for typing a seed. Right now the

  Deck's on-screen keyboard does not pop up by itself there — press

  STEAM + X to open it. That's the one rough edge I know of, and it's next

  on the fix list so the game can qualify for the Verified badge.

WHAT I'M DOING NEXT

- A small Deck-focused update: the keyboard opens automatically in that

  text box, the smallest HUD text gets bumped up for the 800p screen, and

  glyphs stay controller-style even if you brush the trackpads.

- After that I'll ask Valve for the compatibility review. If you play the

  demo on your Deck in the meantime, that genuinely helps — Valve

  prioritizes reviews by Deck playtime.

If something misbehaves on your Deck, tell me in the Discord and it turns

into a patch: https://discord.gg/Gbhs2m2xCf

— SorinBuildsGames