Is Honkai: Star Rail available on the Steam Deck?

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Honkai: Star Rail launches worldwide on April 26, 2023, across PC and mobile devices as a turn-based role-playing game from the developers HoYoverse - the same creators of Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd.

While a wide range of PCs and mobile devices are supported, many eager players have questioned the game’s availability on the very popular portable PC gaming handheld from Valve - the Steam Deck.

While the game itself is not officially supported on the Steam Deck, a few workarounds may exist to solve the issue.

Read on to learn more about the present situation and what can be done.

Note: Parts of this article are subjective and represent the writer’s opinions.

Valve’s handheld gaming PC is a pocket-sized monster capable of running modern-day AAA games at reasonable frame rates and resolutions. It should theoretically be capable of running Honkai: Star Rail without any issues.

However, Steam Deck uses SteamOS, an operating system based on Arch Linux instead of Windows (traditionally seen on a handheld of this nature), which has significant compatibility issues with Windows-only games.

Honkai: Star Rail is available via its proprietary launcher and on the Epic Games Store, neither of which has a native Linux app. Furthermore, the anti-cheat used in the game is incompatible with Linux-based systems and will refuse to boot up the game - even under compatibility software such as Wine and Bottles.

For this very reason, it is recommended that players use a mobile device based on Android or iOS to play the game for the time being, and hope that HoYoverse makes an official port for Linux systems and Valve’s popular handheld.

While the game is in no way officially supported on this system, there are several workarounds - each