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Saves don't seem to work. When exiting and starting the game, it takes me to the tutorial, rather than to the area to start a new run with permanent upgrades, etc.
I have Steam Cloud enabled, and it says it's got nothing there. Googling it suggests common issues with permissions on Windows, but it's not clear how to make it work here on Steam Deck, so I'm requesting a refund.
Note that the default Proton selection, which I'm using, is Proton 6.3-8, not the newest one. I have not observed any problems with it so far.
Based on the notes I saw here, I first tried with GE-Proton7-31, and fights themselves worked fine, but when playing a Klassic Tower I noticed that when reaching the final boss, a cinematic fails to load and the game locks up, requiring a force quit from the Steam menu. I tried this multuple times and reproduced it each time.
Switching to Proton Experimental solved this problem. I did notice an unexpected interruption to network connectivity that I hadn't seen before (it kicked me out of the tower at the final boss), but that only happened once, so I don't have reason to believe it's a compatibility issue. I was able to successfully complete the tower using Experimental, and there was a bit of weirdness (black display) after completing it, but it didn't prevent me from proceeding, and again I don't even know that it's a compatibility issue.
Other single player modes I've tried work fine, but I have not tried anything online (though others say GE is needed for that) and have not tried all the modes.
In general, based on my experience so far, I can recommend this as playable in single player using the version Proton Experimental available as of this writing.
I've only played one game so far, but as far as I can tell, it works just fine with Proton 5.13-6 selected. Using the default version as of this writing, or when selecting Proton Experimental, the game launches, but it won't launch an actual (basketball) game.
Works perfectly fine with the Steam Deck controls or with an external controller. But I've found that after connecting and disconnecting an external controller (specifically, I've tried the 8BitDo Pro 2 bluetooth controller), opening and exiting the game each time, the next time it starts with only the built-in controller, it doesn't detect it anymore.
Rebooting the Steam Deck makes it work again, and probably there are other ways to make it work again too that I haven't found yet.
Filed this updated report to reflect controller use after my earlier report and to confirm the game is still generally great on Deck, after playing through a full single player season and more.
I noticed what I think may be occassional intermittent bugs, but I have no reason to believe they're a result of Proton rather than the game itself.
The game tends to choke on the initial jump ball when starting a game, but performance using high settings is fully playable and mostly rather nice outside of that, with intermittent dips below 60fps that don't generally interfere with the game.
Assigned an easier key to Shift, for queuing actions.
