Gamescom Confirmed Me That Devs Actually Care About Steam Deck Compatibility

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All through the final 5 days, I’ve been at Gamescom, and it has been a blast. The occasion is big and stuffed with so many superior folks, and I had the pleasure of assembly superb people throughout the business to speak about their video games. I will probably be posting a variety of protection concerning the occasion, and I’m writing about a few of my experiences with particular person video games now, however there’s one frequent theme I found all through my time right here: Builders actually care concerning the Steam Deck.

Being one of many solely Steam Deck-focused press comes with some perks, together with being often known as “the Steam Deck man” or “Steam Deck Noah” in a variety of my conferences, nevertheless it additionally begins the dialog on Steam Deck compatibility. I’m elated although, since in virtually all of my conferences, besides one, each developer has been both open, optimistic, or genuinely excited concerning the Deck and having their video games on it.

The conversations in conferences tended to differ in how they had been, however everybody was . However in a few of my conferences, they had been extraordinarily excited not solely concerning the Steam Deck and what we do, however that that they had their video games are operating on the Deck so properly. For instance, I went to see Disney’s Epic Mickey Rebrushed with THQ, they usually introduced a Steam Deck only for me to strive it on, and it runs virtually flawlessly. The sport’s director, Jason Mallett, loves his deck and is adamant that the sport will probably be operating there. I can affirm that it not solely runs however can be extraordinarily gratifying.

He wasn’t the one one, although. There was a mess of builders who actually cared about their video games being playable on the Deck. Over at NetEase, the Fragpunk and Floatopia devs care closely about ensuring the sport is operating on Deck, NEXON is engaged on compatibility for The First Berzerker: Khazan and indie devs throughout need to be certain their video games are operating on the Deck. I even realized that the Tails of Iron builders created a Linux construct of their authentic recreation as a result of they wished it operating as finest because it might on the Steam Deck. We will probably be speaking to them a bit extra in a while about it, however it’s fairly insane listening to that they went thus far simply to verify it performs properly.

On prime of that, we had a variety of conversations with builders and publishers concerning the Steam Deck, how a lot they love the gadget, and quite a bit about what we do at SteamDeckHQ. Everybody was fascinated about what it’s we do, and we had some productive discussions about why its necessary to be engaged on a Deck and the way we might assist out.

We all know of the Steam Deck’s rise and the way the market is creating and changing into increasingly more necessary, nevertheless it was very nice to listen to how necessary it’s to builders and publishers to get it operating. I additionally really feel fairly honored that we’re considered so extremely in regard to our work with video games on the Steam Deck, however we could not be extra excited concerning the video games popping out and enjoying them on the Deck. With how necessary the Steam Deck is to extra devs, it’s obvious that extra titles will help it sooner or later.

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