Irongut
Published
40 FPS / 40 Hz (my standard setting)
Most text is pretty small but readable with zoom.
Looks great, runs perfectly and sips gently on the battery.
40 Hz / 40 FPS (my standard settings)
Works perfectly with no issues out of the box. Save game names are a bit small but that is the only issue I've had. Very economical battery use, over 5 hours predicted on a full charge.
Only shows the top left quarter of the title screen. Controls do not appear to do anything. Tried several Proton versions but no improvement found.
Runs perfectly out of the box though it does have a few typical VN foibles like the title screen not appearing until after you complete the Prologue; which took me 3 hours. Before that you need to force close the game but once you reach chapter 1 the title screen appears with Exit in the menu.
Some text is a bit small
Works great for single player out of the box. I did not try multiplayer.
Owned on GOG, installed via Lutris.
40 Hz limit to get over 6h battery life
Occasional text requires use of the magnifier but mostly readable.
Runs perfectly. Mouse controls so uses trackpad & face buttons (XYAB).
Installed from GOG via Lutris. Plays perfectly ootb and consumes little power at 40 Hz/FPS.
Initial laucnch did not set the screen size correctly and only showed a portion of the screen. After quitting the issue did not reappear on subsequesnt launches.
Works well apart from screen size issue on initial launch.
Almost all text is too small without magnifier
I played the News Tower demo as part of NextFest Feb 22 for about 4.5 hours, completing the available content. The game ran well and used little power even at the highest graphics settings. Unfortunately there is no text size setting and most is too small, especially tooltips, but once you get used to the interface and know what everything does this becomes less of a problem.
A great game for the Deck, even increasing the graphics to high quality I get over 5 hours battery life.
Install Visual C++ Redist 2015 - 2022
Most text is difficult to read without magnifier
20 - 25 FPS, occasionally up to 30 FPS on LOW graphics settings
Graphics settings:
- Ultra = ~5 FPS (default)
- High = 5 - 10 FPS
- Medium = 15 - 20 FPS
- Low = 20 - 25 FPS, occasionally up to 33 FPS
Some graphics settings could not be changed, e.g. mirror draw distance.
Lots of Accessibility settings but no text size setting.
Even with low graphics settings, power draw was over 20W.
I played the demo during Steam NextFest Feb 24, hopefully by release they will have improved performance and added text size to the Accessibility settings because this looks like a game that could be great on Deck but this demo is barely playable.
Space combat background is white
Game runs in a small fixed size window, set Native resolution in OS
Sometimes crashes when you skip the intro movies
Would not run with the default Proton, forcing Experimental and Native resolution makes the game play well provided you autocomplete the space battles. The game only runs at 15 - 20 fps so set refresh rate to 20 Hz to improve battery life.
Launcher requires touchscreen or mouse to start the game.
Control prompts are for keyboard only.
Runs perfectly and gets over 6 hours battery life. Control prompts are for keyboard but easy to figure out.
Occasionally freezes while trying to display the end of game score screen
Installed from GOG via Lutris. Loading screens are a bit slower on Deck than PC and the end of game score screen froze occasionally but otherwise plays perfectly and uses 8W at 40Hz.
40 Hz / 40 FPS / 10W TDP
Control prompts are missing or wrong at all times
Requires Proton, the native version wouldn't respond to the controls.
Control prompts do not appear
Ocasionally crashes when using teleport to another area, fortunately the game saves before the crash so no progress lost.
It plays well and suits the Deck if you can handle the lack of controller prompts and the occasional crash (twice in 12 hours so far).
A lot of text is barely readable and the font size slider doesn't seem to do anything.
Installed from GOG via Lutris.
Plays well and uses less than 8W at 40Hz on the highest graphics setting. You do need to use the on-screen keyboard regularly when selling wine.
Names on map cards are small and blurry.
Keyboard is required once, to enter your character's name. Names on map cards are impossible to read even with the magnifier but that did not prevent me playing. Otherwise it plays perfectly with 5+ hour battery life.
Names on map cards are small and blurry.
Keyboard is required once, to enter your character's name.
Names on map cards are impossible to read but otherwise it plays perfectly with 5+ hour battery life.
Ocasionally needed the magnifier to read cards on the map.
Perfect out of the box.
