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If you can install the unofficial patch and can put up with an awkward control scheme, I think the game is perfectly playable.
cmd=( %command% ); cmd[-1]="$STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH/mod.exe"; "${cmd[@]}"
Had to add keyboard binds to everything as the game doesn't natively support controller. Game has a lot of keyboard binds so fitting everything onto the steam decks controls is a bit of a hassle. Especially when using the in-game pc's.
The game dips into the higher 40's in some spots, didn't play too far into the game so not sure how performance is in some of the later levels.
The game worked without problems for me, just move over a pre-installed copy with the unofficial patch already applied over to steam deck or run the installer using proton on the steam deck using desktop mode. I installed unofficial patch 11.5 using proton and then used the command cmd=( %command% ); cmd[-1]="$STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH/mod.exe"; "${cmd[@]}" to point steam to launch the launcher.exe file installed with the patch. My command line ended up looking like this " cmd=( %command% ); cmd[-1]="/run/media/deck/08276134-3239-4736-b9a8-4a7da34d2610/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines/Loader.exe"; "${cmd[@]}" " this allowed me to use the current patch and allow steam to track playtime.
