Larnu
Published
Lowered FPS to 30, reduced TDP to 8 and GPU to 800Mhz
The default controls are not ideal. I suggest either downloading a community one or creating your own. Other than that, no issues experienced so far.
As at least one other has mentioned, sometimes there were boundary issues. Closing and starting the game seemed to solve this the couple of times it happened.
Limited to 30FPS
When windowed the mouse was misaligned to where the game thought it was. Full screen did not have this issue
Honestly, the fact that the game doesn't automatically pick up the 1280x800 screen resolution (and defaults to 1280x720) is a poor reason this game doesn't show as fully supported in Steam for the Steam Deck. Changing the resolution is something a PC gamer might/should expect. Sure, put it in the notes for how supported it is, but it runs flawlessly and the store should reflect that.
Make sure you enable touchscreen controls in the input settings, otherwise you can end up not being able to target with the controller.
I've also had times where I've selected an item to purchase in th Merchant and a different item was purchased. Unsure if this is a game bug or a touchscreen/input related problem.
Sometimes the game "forgets" big text is enabled, normally on the main menu; this makes the fonts quite small and could be difficult for some to read.
As a native game it works fine, with great battery life on default settings. Not knowing that enabling thouchscreen is a "must" prior to playing my first couple of runs resulted in some frustrating game play the first couple of times playing, but once you enable that it's a much better experience.
If the game added a "disable mouse" feature, then that could likely fix a lot of the input issues I have experienced.
The game defaulted the keyboard input. When in this mode it does t accept any input from the controller (SteamDeck). As such it meant that opening movies couldn't be skipped nor the menus used; it made it appear the game was unresponsive. You need to you the touchscreen to change the setting.
If the game defaults to keyboard input, it appears to not work; use the touchscreen to change the settings if this occurs.
Initially kept stating that C++ needed to be installed, and click "Install" resulted in the game closing. Switching the GE fixed this.
"Ghost inputs" have sometimes been detected, for example, I could be in a menu, and the cursor moves up a couple of menu items.
In Proton 7.0 the game could not be played, a message box asking for a C++ library to be installed would be presented, and then when clicking install the app closed. Launching the game using GE-Proton resolved the issue.
The game is very demanding from a GPU perspective on high settings, which is surprising when it looks pretty similar to Octopath Traveler. Without fiddling you will be lucky to get more than 2 hours battery life on high settings, and won't get a constant 60fps (I was getting a max of 52). Lowering the quality of the graphics, or switching to FSR would be an idea if you want good better battery life.
The game also constantly defaults to showing the keyboard controls on screen, not controller. As soon as you press a button (not use the analogue sticks) this changes for the current dialogue/battle, but it's frustrating that it will random switch back to showing keyboard controls. I don't know if that's a "feature" unique to the Steam Deck, Proton, or just PC players in general; hopefully it's a bug in the game itself. From a developer perspective (as in SE) they could simply make a game option where you can choose a default game input device for on-screen prompts.
Changed basically everything.
30FPS
The official layout does not work outside of the main menu. Had to createy own layout emulating a keyboard.
That it appears that the Steam release has an official control layout and it doesn't work was frustrating. I lost a lot of time trying to get it to work. I ended up creating my own layout and that worked great; it's like the game doesn't support controller properly.
If you are playing, my community layout is "A Quintessential layout for study". Hope it gives you a better experience.
After the initial experience, when I went to play again I was unable to play the game; only menus responded. I tried changing controller configuration again, switching back to the one from the Developer, turning off Steam Input API, nothing. I could play the game once and since then it's borked.
I'll reach out to the Developer (if I can) and see if they respond, as I'm not the first and I doubt the last who will have this issue. If I post a 3rd review, it'll at least be good news... Clearly I spoke too soon after being excited to get the game working, and I did get some enjoyment out of it before it was booked again; that only rubbed more salt in the wound.
Left Trackpad menu, Left Joystick Menu, bumper changes, select button, left trigger. Published as "Bartending at your fingertips"
FPS limited to 30. TDP limited to 7 Watts.
My only complaint is that the use of the mouse for the jukebox is a little clunky, and you also have to use the mouse to navigate some menus.
