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Set tdp to 6-7 watts.
Works great with no changes. Controls worked fine too, even the triggers and touchpads.
Controls are not responding properly when launching using default settings
Battery life was fine on default settings but I dropped refresh rate to 40hz and tdp to 5 watts on a road trip and the deck reported about 4-5 hours on full battery with maxed out screen brightness.
Menus were occasionally unresponsive to controller input requiring multiple attempts before accepting a button press.
Despite having a linux native version steam OS decided to download the windows version which caused issues when navigating the main and pause menus. This issue is resolved with the usage of steam play none, but saves aren't transferable between the linux and windows version so I ended up playing the entire game through proton. I also believe that load times are affected by playing through proton but I didn't play enough of the linux version to come to a conclusive answer. Playing through proton is entirely viable but I would strongly recommend playing on the linux version of the game as to not have to deal with the menu issues.
Controller support for the game is broken, you won't be able to play the game at all using a controller.
Controller support is broken
Although the game presenta itself as fully compatible with controllers, it's not true. You can't play with controllers as the game won't recognise any input (or will recognise only some at random times) making it impossible to select dialogue options in game and sometimes even select the option you want in the menus. I'd say it's right now broken as you can't play it oob on Steam deck.
Works natively out of the box
The game works natively just make sure to choose to disable the steam overlay while in-game option in the Properties --> General submenu of the game. Additionaly make sure to set the default launch option to the second version of "Play Oxenfree".
With thoose small fixes the game launches and works perfectly and natively out of the box.
Two "start" prompts appeared, I used the one on the bottom.
Once while putting deck on standby, I returned and had to restart Oxenfree, none of my input would work. This only happened once, during a 5 or so hour playthrough, and never again.
Couldn't progress past the first area due to a bug
Couldn't progress past the first area of the game due to a bug where the wrong screen resolution results in hover tooltips not being clickable or straight up not appearing in the first place. Unsure if this is a proton problem or the game itself.
TDP Limit set to 8W
The game menu cannot be navigated using the gamepad of the deck, you have to use the touch screen/mouse input. In game works fine, just the menu.
Initially tried launching the game with the default Steam Deck install, but it didn't launch at all. Had to go into the compatibility settings and set it to use Proton 7.0-3. My guess is it was trying to run the native linux version, but that wasn't working.
Native version didn't run at all but with Proton everything worked out of the box.
Slight VSYNC issues but nothing major.
Often the input are not registered in the menu, the game works fine
If you install the game with the linux version you get an error about the main executable not found (Is there but rather than being called "Oxenfree.x86_64" is "OXENFREE"). Tried to rename it without any success, if you force steam to download the windows version everything runs fine.
Sometimes it freezes on loading the next area and the game saves only when you actually load in, so it loses your progress essentially. Happened twice in 4hrs.
So to run the native version you NEED to rename the executable from OXENFREE to Oxenfree.x86_64. But even then the game didn't run for me so i switched to windows version. To run a windows version you NEED to delete the d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll in the game folder otherwise the game will crash frequently. So the game doesn't run out of the box AT ALL and requires tinkering.
Native Linux Support
Unknown(< 15 minutes with Proton)Game works native on Linux. On Proton it works out of the box. I installed manually D9VK and it worked as well fine with this DX9 to Vulkan translation.
Unknown(< 15 minutes with Proton)
Game works native and on Proton out of the box. I installed manually D9VK and it worked as well fine with this DX9 to Vulkan translation, except text rendering doesn't work ok.
