Has anyone played the game on Steam Deck or other handhelds ?

[eq12345]

The store page lists Steam Deck compatibility as still unknown, but I bet there are some people out there that did install the game on their decks.
Any first hand experience with The Great Circle on handheld devices here?
I would like to buy this game, but I play mainly on my Lenovo Legion Go, so it would be great to hear if and how it runs on a handheld with AMD Z1 Extreme APU.

[MancSoulja]

My deck is in Prague getting fixed but on my Ally X, with no FSR I get around 30fps at 1080p low preset. it a good 30fps too, it feels alright on the small screen.

[jboyer]

I have the ASUS Rog Ally with the Z1 extreme, and while plugged in using the full performance watt settings, and it plays pretty decent 30 fps at 1080P at low settings. If I set the resolution down a bit to 900P it sometimes get to 40 FPS, and the picture quality still isn't too bad.

[Geeks On Hugs]

Originally posted by eq12345:

The store page lists Steam Deck compatibility as still unknown, but I bet there are some people out there that did install the game on their decks.
Any first hand experience with The Great Circle on handheld devices here?
I would like to buy this game, but I play mainly on my Lenovo Legion Go, so it would be great to hear if and how it runs on a handheld with AMD Z1 Extreme APU.

I played today on my Steam Deck for several hours and it was amazing. I streamed it from my desktop and I can of course even turn up the settings higher than when I play on my desktop directly because of the lower resolution. That's certainly going to be the best way to play on Deck.

In addition to your Deck you'll need a good solid local network and a decent host computer and it's a great time.

[eq12345]

Originally posted by Geeks On Hugs:

Originally posted by eq12345:

The store page lists Steam Deck compatibility as still unknown, but I bet there are some people out there that did install the game on their decks.
Any first hand experience with The Great Circle on handheld devices here?
I would like to buy this game, but I play mainly on my Lenovo Legion Go, so it would be great to hear if and how it runs on a handheld with AMD Z1 Extreme APU.

I played today on my Steam Deck for several hours and it was amazing. I streamed it from my desktop and I can of course even turn up the settings higher than when I play on my desktop directly because of the lower resolution. That's certainly going to be the best way to play on Deck.

In addition to your Deck you'll need a good solid local network and a decent host computer and it's a great time.

Well,
my main machine has an AMD Ryzen 9950X CPU and an AMD 6800XT GPU on Windows 10 (in transition to Linux Mint - Win11 is too crappy and scary). Indy should run rather well on it. But I never knew you could stream it to other devices. How do you accomplish this? Could this work with my Lenovo Legion Go ?

[Tmangus]

Has anyone actually played it on the steam deck without streaming? Curious to find out as my 2060rtx doesn’t have the recommended 8gb vram and I’d happily play it on my deck

[Geeks On Hugs]

Originally posted by eq12345:

Originally posted by Geeks On Hugs:

I played today on my Steam Deck for several hours and it was amazing. I streamed it from my desktop and I can of course even turn up the settings higher than when I play on my desktop directly because of the lower resolution. That's certainly going to be the best way to play on Deck.

In addition to your Deck you'll need a good solid local network and a decent host computer and it's a great time.

Well,
my main machine has an AMD Ryzen 9950X CPU and an AMD 6800XT GPU on Windows 10 (in transition to Linux Mint - Win11 is too crappy and scary). Indy should run rather well on it. But I never knew you could stream it to other devices. How do you accomplish this? Could this work with my Lenovo Legion Go ?

Yes! Everything you need is built in and on by default with Steam installed (both host and client).

First just make sure the host computer is running and visible on the network as the machine you want to play on. Of course Steam should be running on the host.

Now I don't know how to launch with desktop mode but in big picture mode (basically the Steam Deck's native user interface) you go to library, select the game and then you might wait a moment for it to see that the game is installed on the host machine and then you'll see a drop down button next to the "Play" button. Select that and then select the name of your host computer.

At that point the "Play" button will now say "Stream"...just click it and your good to go!

Let me know if you have any further questions.