SteamDeck

[RosefortheHunter]

Ok, First things first, there is no guarantee this will work, but this did appear to work on mine. Second, I did get this by looking through various threads on how to get it to work so this is just to gather it all together for everyone. This is a work around, not a fix.

The first thing to get this to work on SteamDeck, I'm warning you now, you will need to disable cloud saves for this game. Meaning, at the minute you will not be able to access old saves or sync them to the cloud. When I tested it with cloud sync it didn't work. This might be different for others. However, this will at least mean you can play the game on SteamDeck if like me it's your only gaming platform at the moment (My gaming PC died not long ago).

Also it will revert the button prompts to the PC ones I'm afraid.

Now to start off.

Step One:
Install Proton GE. The guide I've linked below is very good for this.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-to-install-proton-ge-on-the-steam-deck

After the install is finished launch and click add, scroll until you find Proton-7.Orc6-GE-1 and install this.

Step Two.
Go back to game mode, next go to Immortal Life (Page where you'd press play) on the SteamDeck and click settings - Developer - Delete Proton Files

Step Three
On the same page mentioned previously go to settings - Properties - General and untick 'Keep game saves in Steam Cloud for Immortal Life"

Step Four
In Properties next go to Compatability - Tick Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool and in the drop-down select Proton-7.Orc-GE-1

Step Five
Go back and play the game

Note:
I am not the best on the Linux OS, but hopefully, this can at least work as a temporary work around until the Dev team get the chance to fix this issue. The issue seems to be caused by the Linux file system and where the save files are kept.

[Lalaryl]

MY GOSH! Thank you so much for this! You are my savior! I shall follow you to whichever hell hole! 🤣🤣 Let us be Cultivators together!

[thelefthorse]

Excellent guide, RosefortheHunter. It would be a great idea for this to be pinned to the front page so future players and potential players can find it easily.

[RosefortheHunter]

Thank you very much both of you, I am glad it has helped. The game still is Early Access, bugs will happen and they are a small team as well so hopefully this will at least help a bit until they can fix this bug. I don't know if it'll get pinned but if anyone needs it, then it's here :)

[oblivion]

Does this allow you to play with good gamepad controls or only the template of keyboard and mouse works?

[RosefortheHunter]

They don't have controller support yet i don't think

[John Stamos]

So I did this but my game is in Chinese for some reason, no clue how to change that. Help lol

[Angely]

Originally posted by John Stamos:

So I did this but my game is in Chinese for some reason, no clue how to change that. Help lol

Go to library then Immortal Life> Manage (clockgear icon) > Properties> Language> English (if that's what you want)

Does this workaround still work with latest updates? I can't seem to get it to work the 1st save I made failed afted following thd instructions. Q.Q

I'll probably do a windows dualboot setup & see how it goes as I played the game 1st on geforce now which has my saves in the cloud. The game downloads them (found them in the save folder in desktop mode), but ofcourse they won't work. I wanted to see if I could create a save successfully
& then overwrite/replace them with the ones from steamcloud but unfortunately I currently have no Linux skills to speak off (forgot everything after years of having no PC).xD

I don't want to continue playing on Geforce Now either, but it might be a solution for some that bought the game h hoped to playy it on steamdeck, controller partially works on Geforce Now, but I only played it on android so far & didn’t properly set anything up same on steamdeck as I just got my steamdeck recently.

[Evergreen Fairy]

Originally posted by Angely:

Originally posted by John Stamos:

So I did this but my game is in Chinese for some reason, no clue how to change that. Help lol

Go to library then Immortal Life> Manage (clockgear icon) > Properties> Language> English (if that's what you want)

Does this workaround still work with latest updates? I can't seem to get it to work the 1st save I made failed afted following thd instructions. Q.Q

I'll probably do a windows dualboot setup & see how it goes as I played the game 1st on geforce now which has my saves in the cloud. The game downloads them (found them in the save folder in desktop mode), but ofcourse they won't work. I wanted to see if I could create a save successfully
& then overwrite/replace them with the ones from steamcloud but unfortunately I currently have no Linux skills to speak off (forgot everything after years of having no PC).xD

I don't want to continue playing on Geforce Now either, but it might be a solution for some that bought the game h hoped to playy it on steamdeck, controller partially works on Geforce Now, but I only played it on android so far & didn’t properly set anything up same on steamdeck as I just got my steamdeck recently.

Using Proton-7.Orc6 DOES fix the save issue. Well, to be clear, it lets the game save. I originally had the same idea to make a new save and see where it was sticking it, and overwrite it with my old one. But then I found out that the system wont save properly by default, and even with GE-Proton7-54 it still wouldnt save. Proton-Orc does let it save, but it creates a new folder in the steamapps area named "?????" and drops all the save content there... xD
It does work using Proton-Orc, though. The game is always defaulting back to chinese after I close it sadly. I'm going to try and check the settings of the game within steam, see if I can force a certain language. But for now even if I have to change the language every single time, at least I can play!

[RosefortheHunter]

The language thing is new as when I originally found this workaround didn't happen, I've not been playing it much as of later so didn't notice. I'm wondering if the updates knocked it out a bit which is possible as this was only a temporary fix. If I find a solution I'll add it here but i can't promise anything.

[Angely]

Originally posted by Lynn:

Using Proton-7.Orc6 DOES fix the save issue. Well, to be clear, it lets the game save. I originally had the same idea to make a new save and see where it was sticking it, and overwrite it with my old one. But then I found out that the system wont save properly by default, and even with GE-Proton7-54 it still wouldnt save. Proton-Orc does let it save, but it creates a new folder in the steamapps area named "?????" and drops all the save content there... xD
It does work using Proton-Orc, though. The game is always defaulting back to chinese after I close it sadly. I'm going to try and check the settings of the game within steam, see if I can force a certain language. But for now even if I have to change the language every single time, at least I can play!

Yeah, I noticed belatedly that I'd accidentally used the wrong Proton GE. Using the one OP & you mentioned is indeed the only one that works for saving the game, but I haven't tried much as it's still too complicated for me I think it's due to the others having some change by using Wine enviroment as fake windows but in windows the game doesn't save in My documents/My Games/ Saved Games etc. it only just like on linux saves in the "common" folder & the "User data" in steam this is why the others & latest probably can't find the files nor save the game. I tried creating folders, copying saves & user data, but so far no luck. If someone with expertise can fix this/figure it out, then we can probably use the latest Proton GE & even the issue with the Chinese language on boot would be resolved as the latest 2 versions. (54 & 55 only checked those)

I also managed to get my cloud saves to work by just simply copying to the cloud saves I had to the ???? folder & you could even turn on cloudsave as you can copy & put them in the commons/original location where the cloud save are & sync them back to the cloud that way, but you should make a backup first.

It's funny as you can even merge those files & they'd load in 1 gamefile unless you've too many chars.xD I at first got an error when I tried to sync but it worked as I went from an empty cloud save for that game to the latest saves . For the Chinese language issue I also haven't workaround yet except for changing the game to english in the ingame setting & back out to "title menu" without saving if you don't want to waste a slot/time, but each time you'd need to repeat this & for 1st time players they'd need at least do that 1x if the want to play in English or Japanese. But yeah we can now sync & play at least.

TLDR; Proton 7.0rc-6-GE-1 can save the game it'll create a folder called "????" if you have saves in cloud you can transfer them to that folder & they'll work just fine even if you turn on cloudsave, wanna sync then copy transfer them back to cloud save folder. I actually kind of like this way as at least the don't suddenly get deleted with the prefix if you delete Proton like with the later versions.

Edit: New 1st time players: New Game (top of 2 options)>Press "M" as soon you gain control of your char to change language>return to menu>start new game in your preferred language that way, check screenshot for more info:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197999934772/screenshots/

[Hazel Rhyme]

This isn't working for me. Is there an updated version of how to get the game to work on steam deck?

[RosefortheHunter]

Originally posted by Hazel Rhyme:

This isn't working for me. Is there an updated version of how to get the game to work on steam deck?

Do you get any error messages, how exactly is the game acting if you don't mind me asking?

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by Hazel Rhyme:

This isn't working for me. Is there an updated version of how to get the game to work on steam deck?

I don't know if the directions differ or not, but the dev team released its own 'official' guide to getting things to work on the Deck a couple of weeks ago. Hope it helps:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1201230/eventcomments/3823035608238090465/

[Angely]

Originally posted by thelefthorse:

Originally posted by Hazel Rhyme:

This isn't working for me. Is there an updated version of how to get the game to work on steam deck?

I don't know if the directions differ or not, but the dev team released its own 'official' guide to getting things to work on the Deck a couple of weeks ago. Hope it helps:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1201230/eventcomments/3823035608238090465/

They copied things from this thread and just added screenshots I think TS was even mentioned, so it doesn't differ in directions.

[RosefortheHunter]

Nah they didn't mention this thread from what I saw, I also linked this thread to the Dev team on the discord channel originally. I am admittedly a little sour that they are claiming the fix as theirs when it is a combination of many people's not just mine, I got a lot of mine from looking at others' fixes, but no use sulking over it XD. Now then, if anyone else is having this problem, please put any details here or in the 'Official' thread. I'll have a look, my game still appears to be working with this fix, but will double check it's up to date later on.