

Plays perfectly and uses very little power (about 7 hours of play on a full charge). Brilliant game that feels tailor-made for the Deck.
Was able to play from start to finish, even was able to use the Steamdeck's quick resume feature without any issues. Battery life ~4 hours iirc. All in all, great game to play on Steamdeck
Using the "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%" fix suggested by other users the crashing and audio problems were resolved.
Fixed crashes and audio glitches
The game had glitchy audio, which seems was leading to crashes every 15-ish minutes. With NO_ESYNC
, audio is fine and there are no more crashes (so far).
PROTON_NO_ESYNC
seems to fix it
PROTON_NO_ESYNC
seems to resolve (or at least reduce) crashes
This game ran fine for me with no crashes, slowdown or audio issues
Game is Playable from Beginning to End, but Has Audio Eccentricities and Crashes Regularly
Firstly, the music skips, making songs sound sometimes sporadic. It sounds at first like strange time signatures, but after playing extensively, it's clearly unintentional.
Secondly, what can only be described as "audio resets" occur frequently. Music will stop intermittently and play a long, glitchy 16-bit cassette stop sound. Music only returns when a new track is played.
Lastly, crashes occur regularly, indicated by an extremely jarring and loud razor sound. There's clear issues with the audio engine, as these exact problems occur in Retro City Rampage over Proton as well.
To begin, I'm using a DualSense controller. The controls worked mostly with the Steam Input Per-Game Setting set to Forced Off, even the button prompts were PlayStation ones. For some reason, after a few hours, the game would no longer respond to the controller over Bluetooth, despite recognizing it.
Hard to say if this was an issue with the DualSense (support is still in beta at the time of writing), but the gamepad experience was hit or miss at best. Even over the wire, I sometimes had to restart until the gamepad was responsive. I was still able to complete the game while plugged-in despite this.
I may test this in the future with my DualShock 3.
You can count on this game to crash. It is completely random. Happens during cutscenes, during the pause screen, and during play. A very loud and glitchy sound announces that it is happening.
At the very least, the autosave system is robust, and I never lost anything besides current mission progress and some property management time.
Understand that this game will crash, and be sure to save after buying/managing properties. The game is still playable to the end.

Music playback messes up and sounds broken at time.
Occasional frame time issues, No FPS drop.
Occasional crashes upon the completion of a mission