UKNightWatch
Published
If you like chess this game is quite good and allows use of 2d picture pieces on board, 3d 'standard' pieces or 3d animated battle pieces.
I was asked to install a wine file. This 'froze' the Steam Deck. After a restart I ran Steam app from desktop and installed the file. Went back to Steam [out of desktop] and all worked fine.
The game has a square / piece selector - circle - that you move around. The game board rotates and this can mean the selector moves on diagonals only. Simple fix is to rotate the game board for alignment.
The game works really well on Steam deck but the controls take a little while to get used to.
When first run on Steam Deck the app runs small - like picture in picture - with wide borders left and bottom. FIX = close game - drop to desktop - run game once from desktop Steam app - close game - go back to Steam [not desktop].
After sorting the graphics sizing issue the game is great. My one issue was with the on screen keyboard covering text entry when I got high score and making entering name hard - also delete / backspace for some reason did not work so could not rectify mistakes [maybe text field losing focus]. Devs - if you read this please fix it - maybe put text entry box to top rather than centre if Steam Deck detected maybe.
Controls are fine - they just need a little time to get used to. [using Steam Deck default game controller]
Installed on Steam Deck for when travelling. Only issue was getting used to controls - they are easy though.
