Soulstenance
Published
The game starts with the screen offset to the right and downwards cutting off a significant portion of the right and bottom of the screen. It's essentially unplayable in this state. An option to run in windowed mode would be ideal as it runs fine on desktop Linux in this state.
While the game technically works and launches just fine and should in theory be playable, the offset screen with no way to fix it nullifies this. Play on desktop Linux instead. It's a great game!
Text can be a bit small. Did not hinder gameplay for me but if you have vision problems it may be problematic.
It works great, however a mouse is strongly recommended. Keyboard is optional but if you use shortcut keys a lot, you will want it.
As with all games on my Deck, game is locked to 40/60 FPS by default in handheld and docked mode respectively by default. This might be irrelevant since it rarely exceeds 40-50 FPS anyways, but the framerate is mostly stable nonetheless.
- The game will very rarely crash for no apparent reason. Not enough to be annoying but still happens.
- In handheld mode (possibly related to running on battery), there are infrequent frame spikes where the game completely freezes for about one second. Does not occur while docked with AC power.
Launcher updated itself and I lost the mouse pointer after. Manually restarting the game fixed it.
Initial impressions were that it works great! Even comes with what appears to be a community configuration by default. Even though I recommend a mouse, if available, the controller configuration works fantastically. Be aware that the frames will drop depending on what is going on in the game world, adjust the speed accordingly. This is not Deck specific, as it happens on PC as well. I run it at 40Hz with frames limited to 20 for added stability.
For some reason Valve tested this against Proton instead of Native so this is why it says it is unsupported. You can safely ignore that rating - I would rate it, at a minimum, Deck Playable.
This game plays great on the Deck! However, the default controller layout leaves a bit to be desired and will require some tweaking to gain access to all controls. Additionally, there are no controller glyphs, so whatever layout you set, will need to be memorized. It is best enjoyed with a keyboard and mouse.
Also, if you want more than a 30 FPS average, you may want to lower some graphics settings such as shadows or clouds. I was able to get 50-60 FPS after some very minor tweaks. It is entirely playable without such tweaks though.
Game did not launch at all. Tried various Proton versions including 8, 9, Experimental and Hotfix. It's worth noting that this is the demo and I didn't buy the full game but there's no chance I will be if the demo doesn't even launch.
Text is quite small and hard to read when docked to a TV.
Overall playable but text elements can be hard to read. Especially if you're docked to a TV, I found myself straining to read it at a distance. It might not be as bad if you're playing with it in your hand.
Game crashed with a strange error when I went into the Creation Club the first time, however this did not happen again and I was able to add my content with no problems.
