Steam Deck just got support for a bunch of new games – and some nifty bug fixes too
Valve has unleashed Proton 8.0 complete with support for a bunch of fresh games, including some big-name titles that are now playable on the Steam Deck, plus there’s a raft of fixes for various problems too.
Proton is the compatibility layer used to run Windows games, and it powers SteamOS, the (Linux-based) operating system of the Steam Deck. So these are important advancements for Valve’s handheld – and there are some specific fixes for the device, to boot.
The big news is support has been introduced for Dead Space 2023 and Forspoken, along with Nioh 2 and a whole lot of other games. The full list is as follows:
As Gaming on Linux(opens in new tab) reports, Proton 8 requires a GPU that supports Vulkan 1.3 (and yes, the Steam Deck is good to go on that front – all relatively modern graphics cards will be fine).
Proton 8.0 also makes specific changes for the Steam Deck, notably improving the way sleep/resume works with Tiny Tina’s Wonderland on the handheld, and fixing a gremlin that causes the on-screen keyboard to pop up when starting A Plague Tale: Innocence (and A Plague Tale: Requiem).
There’s also improved multi-touch support with Proton 8.0, and the cure for an issue with the 2K Games launcher failing. Oh, and if you were experiencing crashes when returning from a player profile in Football Manager 2023, that bug has been banished.
It’s clearly good to see a sizeable chunk of new games being brought into the fold for the Steam Deck (and Linux gaming more broadly, of course, whatever device you’re using). As well as the continued work smoothing over issues that various games have with the handheld.
Naturally, there can be gremlins in the works with any new release, and we’ve seen reports (from Reddit(opens in new tab) and
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