I’ve gotten through 3 areas in Expedition 33. Then Silksong derailed E33 playtime. Then I started playing more and more of my little emulation console (Retroid Pocket 5) and I’m loving playing the old roguelites on that. I’ll get back to E33… soon™
I have a question for ya, I only means of playing any time soon is on a steam deck. is it the kind of game that I should play on lowish settings, or should I wait until some day when I have a PC
It’s absolutely playable on the steam deck - beat the game that way with no regrets.
That said, do yourself a favor and lookup the graphics settings to use. By default, it uses a preset “Steamdeck” option with absolutely atrocious graphics - and completely unnecessarily! It can actually run the game at much higher settings with almost no FPS impact.
(I know people say that kind of thing all the time, but I’m telling ya, in this case it really is a night and day difference).
Will it be as nice as a gaming PC? Obviously not, but I was honestly really impressed with what it could do. The game is well optimized.
If you struggle to find settings, let me know, I can try to dig em up later.
I’ve not got a steam deck so I’m going off general knowledge here. I think it’s a bit much for the thing. I know it runs because my friend is using it to play but he says the graphics definitely take a hit. The game probably uses a hidden ultra-low preset.
The nature of the game really begs for stable 60+fps and quick Google says it only hits 45 at most on steam deck. Probably why my friend is struggling.
Dude Expedition 33 is so worth it though. The story, that satisfaction of getting a fight smoothly, the world building. It all just works so well
This is known.
I’ve gotten through 3 areas in Expedition 33. Then Silksong derailed E33 playtime. Then I started playing more and more of my little emulation console (Retroid Pocket 5) and I’m loving playing the old roguelites on that. I’ll get back to E33… soon™
I have a question for ya, I only means of playing any time soon is on a steam deck. is it the kind of game that I should play on lowish settings, or should I wait until some day when I have a PC
It’s absolutely playable on the steam deck - beat the game that way with no regrets.
That said, do yourself a favor and lookup the graphics settings to use. By default, it uses a preset “Steamdeck” option with absolutely atrocious graphics - and completely unnecessarily! It can actually run the game at much higher settings with almost no FPS impact.
(I know people say that kind of thing all the time, but I’m telling ya, in this case it really is a night and day difference).
Will it be as nice as a gaming PC? Obviously not, but I was honestly really impressed with what it could do. The game is well optimized.
If you struggle to find settings, let me know, I can try to dig em up later.
that is a very pleasantly surprising thing to hear!
I’ve not got a steam deck so I’m going off general knowledge here. I think it’s a bit much for the thing. I know it runs because my friend is using it to play but he says the graphics definitely take a hit. The game probably uses a hidden ultra-low preset.
The nature of the game really begs for stable 60+fps and quick Google says it only hits 45 at most on steam deck. Probably why my friend is struggling.
thanks for the reply, I suspected that the way to play is with the pretty turned up. I’ll keep that in the mental backlog haha
They recently had an update and my potato PC that was struggling to play it on Linux suddenly was able to play it on low moderate settings.
I then bought a video card and it is smooth AF, but that was a long-planned purchase.