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For a short time as I had no main quest, I was unable to select a quest with the controller buttons. Holding STEAM button and using right trackpack to force a mouse and hovering over one of the quests brought the selection back temporarily. Navigating the questlog is buggy all around.
Especially equipping the hoe drops FPS to 10-15 in certain areas. I believe this isn't a Linux exclusive problem, but might be worse here.
I am really torn between Yes and No. Technically, it works, but performance is utter garbage (runs at max 30-40 fps outside, no matter the graphic settings, and it feels slow and unresponsive.) Fans always on full blast.
I tried forcing a lower resolution and using FSR, which had no impact at all. Unfortunately, I had to nuke the prefix and start over, as after I once set 800x500 through Steam, it didn't accept a higher resolution anymore. Finally limited it to 1280x720, because while the game works in 1280x800, the loading screen is a black bar that does not cover the upper and lower part of the screen then, which is utterly annoying.
I only played 2 hours so far, so I can't say whether there will be an area where performance turns it unplayable. Proton GE is needed or the cutscene videos won't play.
Controller support has a quirk or two, and some things aren't very intuitive (if they were explained, I instantly forgot.) For example, to swap between characters, hold down X and left stick up and down, but you can't do that outside the menu, because X is interact. Adjusting difficulty is done with left joystick, but it's hard to get camping difficulty back down again, because to the left is a help icon which prevents moving the slider to the left. Hover over various menu options shows a help tooltip what they do, but you can't hover a controller button and access them with a wheel that only shows icons. I tried to check all the achievements, but pressing A on one of them triggers the menu point that's on the layer behind it. It all works out, and there is great on-screen help by holding select (though the descroptions for ABXY are misalinged for me), but sometimes it's just easier to grab that trackpad.
It already defaults to using the right trackpad as mouse, so it requires no tinkering, but I removed the right trackpad press as click and bound it to a back button for greater accuracy and also bound right click to another back button, because I find it harder to set a map marker with controller, as you don't see the cursor postion. Lastly, I bound another key to f5 for easier quicksave access.
Even has controller support. The ingame tutorials show keyboard prompts, but there aren't many keys: Y to skip, L1 to go back, menu to open the menu. There was a warning about too small text when launching the game, but the text wasn't particularly small compared to other games.
Haven't played much, but seems to work perfectly fine, with large enough text. In the menu there is an option to show xbox controls instead of keyboard controls, which matches the deck buttons.
I'm only playing part 1 so far, but I don't expect any issues with controller support in the later ones, considering it's a console port.
Careful: This game does not have cloud save support. The savegames can be found under: [path to steamapps]/compatdata/783180/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/Flyhigh Works/Fairune Collection/
Gameplay itself works fine with the default controller setup. I only played single player. There is a way to join the room of another person, which might require entering the room code with the onscreen keyboard. I did not try that.
Very minor: while naming the profile or the character using the onscreen keyboard, I was unable to enter capital letters. Had the same problem a year ago on (desktop) Linux with a real keyboard.
The selected resolution is part of the savegame profile, so when switching between the Deck and PC I have to manually change it every time. Played through the intro so far with no other issues.
I only played it once it left EA. Worked perfectly fine, including excellent controller support and cloud saves between deck and pc.
Dpad didn't work for me, bound it to WASD. Rotate chair also didn't work, bound a key to R. If you want to bind run to an easier to reach key, it's Shift.
This isn't quite tinkering, because it works, but the default xbox controls are annoying. You control the cursor with one of the joysticks, and selecting targets for interaction is a pain. After setting controls from automatic to mouse and keyboard, and the right trackpad to behave as mouse, the controller input was still recognized, but I could move the cursor freely. I would only suggest making this change after the tutorial, so a) you can see if the default controls do work for you and b) you learn the controller buttons, like Y for quick move between chest and inventory.
Had to invoke the onscreen keyboard manually to name the world. I don't think it's needed otherwise except to create signs.
I wanted to see how it looks in 640x400, and I could barely put it back, it zoomed in and I only had a part of the resolution selection and a sliver of the confirm button still visible. UI scaling is also pointless, because even at 1.2 menus get cut off at the edge. It does default to perfect 1280x800, so I wasn't very motivated to experiment further.
I already played 24 hours with a custom control scheme, but the added controller support makes it way better
It defaults to a good resolution and a pretty usable control scheme where I could navigate menus, move, and interact. I only had to bind Ctrl to a key to make the pillbug roll.
Reviews on the game are mixed, so I think it might have some bugs that aren't related to playing on Linux. It's also not listed as having cloud support, but on a quick test between the deck and my desktop PC, cloud saves worked.
The main game part is just icons, and pics of cats. The tips you unlock and additional menus were very, very small.
I highly doubt this has anything to do with linux, but NOT everything is accessible playing with a gamepad. I could not find a way to select various things (the queued actions to cancel them, the next pages in the character equipment menu, characters walking the guild hall to talk to them, the next page in the compendium) and every time I feed my yolk, I need to restart the game because the dpad stops working as soon as the food action is greyed out.
Easiest solution was to set right trackpad to mouse so I can click on everything, and queue food after another action instead of clicking it directly.
