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[Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - May 2025 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My big two games recently have been Blue Prince (which I made a post raving about a week ago), and Clair Obscura: Expedition 33.

Blue Prince is a fantastic puzzle game/rogue-likes mix, and as someone who enjoys both genres I've found their combination is fantastic. Really satisfying game for me, I didn't close the game on my deck for about a week after first trying it. I'm not done with it yet either, lots more to discover.

Clair Obscura Expedition 33 is a really flashy turn based JRPG made by a team of 30 people who quit Ubisoft because they wanted to make good games. It has incredible production values for such a small team and puts a lot of AAA games to shame. It pushes the deck performance wise, but I think it performs acceptably after tweaking some settings. I'd recommend people follow this guide for making it run it's best, but the TL;DW is:

The game hides some graphics settings on deck by default and uses a deck specific present. You can re-enable the settings by using the launch option SteamDeck=0 %command%, and customize it to your liking. Basically it's TSR to low, shadow and post processing to low, film grain off, chromatica off, motion blur off, any other option to medium, FPS capped at 30.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How have you felt about playing CO:E33 on the Deck? The game looks quite good, but I’m really unsure about playing it now on the Deck or waiting until I build a new mid-range PC in the fall/winter.

Do you feel the trade-offs for getting it working on the Deck are worth it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

For me, absolutely. I definitely recommend those tweaks I listed above, but I consider the graphics very acceptable. I have the game installed on my main PC as well (with the idea of streaming to the Deck), but ultimately I've been content enough with the graphics to not bother with that.

The game is definitely a bit blurry, and some early areas have less than ideal shadow aliasing. But the game manages to be pretty beautiful despite that, and I'm having a great time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Good to know; thanks for getting back to me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've been playing Expedition 33 on desktop Linux, and it's really great. It really does put a lot of other games to shame. Good to know it works acceptably on the Deck.