Solasta: Crown of the Magister has incredible Steam Deck support btw and is currently on a 60% sale. I bought it as I have some flights coming up and wanted to get more familiar with D&D5e before BG3 comes out.
Obviously buying it right now is a bit like “we have Baldur’s Gate 3 at home…” but I was pleasantly surprised by how great the Steam Deck support is. It’s like they must’ve tested it on the Steam Deck specifically.
There’s a few minor issues with small text, but aside from that it’s great.
It’s awesome to see games get official controller support for the Steam Deck. Hopefully Baldur’s Gate 3 will have as great support as well.
I play Solasta exclusively on the Deck (as it’s my only PC now), but almost ALL that time is docked.
The tiny text is a deal-breaker for my 40s eyes, re: playing it handheld. I’m working on a magnification screen rig at the moment (awaiting the parts) to address the issue in general, but just by default, on an 800p 7-inch screen, it’s just too small.
I’m hoping that developers work on having clean and scalable fonts and UIs, as a growing percentage of PC gamers are going to be portable.
It can be done right. For example, I bought Inscryption on the last steam sale and played through almost all of it handheld, and every font in that game is either large as a percentage of screen real estate, or it’s very, very clean and easy to read when smaller. That was a great experience on the small screen.
If I were you, I’d look into setting one of the back buttons to trigger the screen magnifier. Not a perfect solution, but it might help enough if you want to play on the go.
Appreciate the suggestion, I usually set one of the trackpads as the magnifier and mouse. It’s not ideal though, the zoom in is pretty extreme, so you lose parts of the screen.
Have you tried it with the unfinished business mod on the deck? Not sure I could play without that at this point. 😅
