R.E.L.I.V.E source port on Steam Deck

[Valfossa]

Has anyone got this to work on the Steam Deck? Because I can't seem to find any information about this.

[Musk]

I tried it just now out of curiosity, and looks like it's working just fine.

I first run the game without Relive, and it also works fine. Steam used one of community control schemes for the Deck and that mostly worked as well - navigating the main menu was a bit wonky (the buttons for accepting/canceling seem to be kinda random), but the control scheme during gameplay was fine.

Then I downloaded Relive for Windows and copied the two files into the game directory. One of the files is the new executable (relive.exe) which should be used to launch the game. By default, launching the game through Steam would still use the original executable, but an easy workaround for this is to just rename the new executable to be the same name as the original (and first rename the original one to something else obviously). Launching the game from Steam worked just fine, and to validate I mapped F10 to one of the buttons (which lets you toggle graphics smoothing) and it did work, though the effect isn't super noticable on the deck to be honest.

From what I see there are other options to install Relive, ie. using one of the native Linux versions, but I'm not familiar enough to know of the top of my head how to do it exactly, so I didn't bother :p I didn't test different control schemes either, ie. see if gamepad support is any better than vanilla version.

[Valfossa]

I see, thank you very much.