Blenderhead
Published
Held back by 720p resolution and inflexible if usable control scheme. Single worst text legibility I've seen on Deck.
Legitimately hard to use. Most text that expands when moused over is only readable while moused over. Building counts are illegible in all views.
Constant, low level flickering in UI elements.
Text legibility is a problem. Game isn't unplayable, but it's ridiculous to see this in the same category as games where items are hard to read on one specific screen. Not gonna lie, The Last Faith being flagged by Steam as having the same text issues is insulting. Gamepad control scheme is marred by most controls being immutable, forcing you to screw around with Steam Controller settings to do relatively common stuff like controlling the camera with a stick instead of the D-pad.
My Steam Deck hits a wall after ~30 minutes where the game becomes unplayable. Might be a heat issue.
Water and most semitransparent meshes artifact hard. Game is playable, but these are distracting.
Game runs normally for 20-30 minutes, then becomes choppy and stuttery. Frame rate drops to single digits and audio becomes staggered.
Game becomes unplayable due to sudden drop in frame rate and audio chop after 20-30 minutes of play. Happens on battery and while plugged in.
Some software bugs that remain when playing on Windows.
Not sure if this is my Deck or all Decks, but the hard wall about 30 minutes in is a problem. I suspect it may be a heat issue.
The game seems to default to controller and not allow M+K play if it detects one. The Steam Deck flatly refused to let me use M+K to play the game.
Had some disconnects, seemed like server issues, not Proton issues.
There is a black screen when the game is booted that lasts a few seconds longer than expected, especially the first time. Game otherwise runs fine. I've played a few games where it seems like some specific issue triggered an automatic failure for Steam Deck compatibility. I finished this game last night; I have no idea why it's marked as incompatible.
Set screen to 40 Hz
The circuits used to upgrade plasma weapons have very small text that isn't actually readable on the "loot container" screen. They are readable everywhere else. I suspect that this was an automatic failure and why the game is marked as incompatible.
No idea why this game is listed as yellow instead of green. Whatever this mysterious hard to read text is, I never encountered it in 30 hours and a damn-near-completionist playthrough. And I'm not sure how anyone would, considering it's a pixel art game and runs at the same resolution on everything.
Kind of ridiculous that this game comes with a warning, but Suicide Squad is green while it has frame pacing issues on all three platforms.
