


Low settings, 30 fps lock - about 3h of LCD battery time
Game has a built in magnifier to view smaller text - double tap touch screen, or use the steam built in one

The text is small in several instances, but I never had any trouble reading it.
I've played this a lot on Steam Deck, and it's worked great for me. I've even played it a lot with Spotify playing in the background. I mostly have played plugged in, so can't comment about battery life.

Runs at a smooth 40-60 fps (and I mean smooth, it's surprising!) and I honestly enjoy it on my steam deck more than my PC. Everything works perfectly (aside from usual snowrunner bugs) and battery life is improved on the OLED deck if you were wondering. I'm running on medium to high settings. Regular proton will work just fine, I just prefer experimental on everything.

changed trackpad to work as mouse. Put L3 on L4, R3 on R4, and magnifier on R5
only technically, because of the resolution and graphical tweaks. See notes for further details.
Much of the text is made for reading on a full monitor. Mapping the magnifier is recommended.
I made the folowing graphical changes:
For Snowrunner's options:
-Display Mode: Fullscreen
-Display Resolution: 1024 x 576
-Sharpening: Off
-Effects Quality: Medium
-Texture Filtering: x2
Steam Deck's performance options:
-Per-game profile
-Disable Frame Limit
-Allow Tearing
-Half Rate Shading
-Scaling Filter: FSR, sharpness 5
Anything not mentioned was left unchanged.
For performance it gives an incredibly smooth gameplay experience, rarely ever dips down, and as long as you play on the Deck itself, the visuals aren't really discernibly different from standard Medium settings, with linear scaling and standard performance settings. I think if you used some of those screen glasses, or an external monitor, this would obviously look pretty bad compared to the stock settings, but on the tiny 800p Deck screen it looks good.
But Snowrunner is also an incredibly slow paced game. If you favor graphical fidelity, I can confirm the game also plays fine, and never dips further, if you use stock Medium/Performance settings, and hard cap the FPS in game at 30. Of note, I'm talking strictly about using the in game FPS limit, using Valve's will induce input latency.
In short, use my settings if you want smoother gameplay, use the stock settings hard capped to 30 if you want better graphics.

Lock to 30 fps

A lot of text was practically unreadable

Set Framerate Limit to 40 and set Screen HZ to 40 to prolong battery life.
Trees have visible hitboxes surrounding them. Visible from approx 100m away to infinity.

Changed some graphics settings from the defaults for a more consistent framerate. Generally the game sits at 60fps but you drive so slow in this game that the drops where it goes into the 40s aren't very noticable. Probably fine just locking it at 40 with nicer visuals.
Works and plays great on the steam deck. Also supports the steam decks pseudo rumble, which isn't always the case (truck simulator), so that's a plus. Only issue I ever encountered was the game not letting me past the "press A" splash screen once. Might have to change graphics to suit your preferences, since the defaults don't seem to shoot for 60fps. It's easy to turn down a couple things to make that happen, or just lock at 40 with defaults. Either way, you don't have to really change much for a good experience.

L4 = RT (toggle) for cruise control. Something I greatly missed from MudRunner.
Some UI text is small and there doesn't appear to be a scaling option. Still very playable without using the Steam Magnifier.
Great OOTB experience. I previously played through 100% of the first 3 levels on Switch and this is an incredible step up in graphics, performance and playability.
Add a Cruise control to your controller somewhere and the game becomes even better.
Text is a bit small but not really a problem
Game runs well on the deck, doesn't run at 60 fps even on all low settings but runs solid around 50 fps with all low settings.
use right trackpad as mouse for winching and added headlights to the grip. Might customize further as I play more.
40hz system setting
some text is small, but tends to be inconsequental to gameplay

text can be small but we don't play this for the story
Make sure to change the wine version to Proton-7.3-GE-1
40 framelimit
UI a little bit small
Works and looks great!
Roughly 30 FPS, but very unstable

Limited refresh rate / fps limit to 40
Couple of long stutters (more than a second)
Fails to launch directly from steam, have to open Heroic from steam then launch game