We played Diablo Immortal on the Galaxy S22 Ultra and Steam Deck — and one was a mess

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This wasn’t supposed to be a difficult story to write. In theory, all I had to do was play Diablo Immortal on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and on the Steam Deck and compare the experience on the devices. However, because of the many frustrating aspects of Blizzard’s launcher — and the conflicts I experienced with it and the Steam Deck’s hardware and software — I ended up sinking a huge amount of time into troubleshooting rather than playing. In fact, I could probably have beaten the main Diablo Immortal story on the S22 Ultra in the time it took to troubleshoot the game launcher on the Steam Deck.

Getting started with Diablo Immortal on the Galaxy S22 is a piece of cake. I opened the Google Play Store, downloaded the game, and that’s all there was to it. On the Steam Deck, it was a completely different story.

The problem is that the PC version of Diablo Immortal isn’t on Steam, and is designed to be played with a keyboard and mouse. In order to install it, you’ve got to go through desktop mode on the Steam Deck and install the Battle.net launcher using Proton compatibility software — and only then can you download the game through the Battle.net launcher. However, once I installed the launcher, I encountered a bug with Battle.net that prevented me from downloading Diablo Immortal.

I found a potential fix for this that involves changing the DNS server in the network settings, but it had no effect. There’s apparently a piece of software called Lutris that allows you to install the game, but I read that the issue I ran into with the Battle.net launcher also exists when using Lutris. Since the DNS fix had already failed for me, I had no choice but to abandon any plans of installing Diablo Immortal directly on the Steam Deck.