this game works TERRIBLE on Steam Deck!

[Johnny[HUN]]

How the hell is it Deck verified and in the “works great on deck” category?

I tried it on steam deck with SteamOs, and in the very early stage (at sandman) game frozen, then started moving again with like 2 fps. Couldn’t even exit from the game because it took 2 minute to even bring up the Steam layer…

It is really not great on deck in current state…

[Lillavatti]

If you put the game on lowest settings and then manually put the rest of the settings down because the preset dosnt change them for some reason youll get a almost solid 30. It will dip sometimes in cutscenes but its playable. Its possible using frame generation to get higher fps but I wouldnt do that because of the input lag and the ui flickering

[Stormspark]

Verified means it runs, not that you will get excellent performance. You have to run the absolute lowest settings, and even then it doesn't run well. Maybe on the next version of the Steam Deck it will run better, with the current hardware that's the best it can do. This game is basically the new Crysis.

[BornFlunky]

Originally posted by Stormspark:

Verified means it runs, not that you will get excellent performance. You have to run the absolute lowest settings, and even then it doesn't run well. Maybe on the next version of the Steam Deck it will run better, with the current hardware that's the best it can do. This game is basically the new Crysis.

"Verified" is supposed to mean the game "works great," in Valve's own words. Specifically, "Your game passes all compatibility checks and is a great experience on Steam Deck."

"It runs" is what the lesser "Playable" classification is for. Specifically -- and again, in Valve's own words -- "Your game functions on Deck, but requires extra steps or manual work from the user."

If it's Verified, it's supposed to be entirely compatible, and run well.

[Johnny[HUN]]

the game is stable for a short period of time, I think I set it to medium, and it played fine, but then when the sandman grabs spider-man the game freezes and falls into slow-motion like experience, 1 frame per minute :D And even bringing up steam overlay functions with 1 frame per minute… thats anything but playable, not to mention the “great on deck” phrase :D

[sketchymilk]

it plays worse than the first game. the first game runs and looks great at 30fps/medium setting. shame cos the second game has something the first one does. the wing suit

[Tr3m0r]

Originally posted by BornFlunky:

Originally posted by Stormspark:

Verified means it runs, not that you will get excellent performance. You have to run the absolute lowest settings, and even then it doesn't run well. Maybe on the next version of the Steam Deck it will run better, with the current hardware that's the best it can do. This game is basically the new Crysis.

"Verified" is supposed to mean the game "works great," in Valve's own words. Specifically, "Your game passes all compatibility checks and is a great experience on Steam Deck."

"It runs" is what the lesser "Playable" classification is for. Specifically -- and again, in Valve's own words -- "Your game functions on Deck, but requires extra steps or manual work from the user."

If it's Verified, it's supposed to be entirely compatible, and run well.

This is correct from my understanding of it as well. Basically I even thought there was something about it running fine in "default settings" for verified games. So basically it's for people who just want to turn on the console and get into the game basically.

I haven't tried steam deck for this game just because I know it wouldn't be for me. However I'm impressed with some games that I would think would never be good verified steam deck games that end up being really well done. One game is NBA 2K25, it runs really well on steam deck at default settings and I never would have imagined that to be possible. The first spiderman for me didn't play that great on deck and for me it's one where a big AAA game that I think works best on a big screen with as much performance as one can give it.