Hi! We recently released a game on Steam (Save 15% on Kaiju Control Force on Steam) and someone told us that it doesn’t even launch on Steamdeck. Since this is the first commercial game we release with Defold there are still missing pieces for us - the last one we released on Steam was made with Unity and it worked on Steamdeck without us doing anything about it.
Is there something we need to do to make it work on a Steamdeck? Here are the official recommendations but I have no idea if we are not doing something. Maybe using the Vulkan API?
Steam Deck runs SteamOS which is Linux, 64 bit. It does use Proton which should enable Windows games to be played. I have always just put up native Linux builds however, which is why I suggested it.
yes, but running a native app or game on an OS (in this case, Linux) always performs better. I highly recommend uploading a Linux build. Proton (a port of Wine) is just a compatibility layer for Windows apps and games on Linux. It’s a great tool, but it will never be as performant as a native app or game.
