Is Wasteland 2 playable on Steam Deck?

[bossbaby👶]

Has anyone tried playing WL2 on the steam deck yet? WL3 is playable on the deck, but there's nothing on the store page about WL2's status being supported/playable/unsupported. Same for remastered/classic WL1. I really want to play wasteland 2 on my steam deck when I finally get it.

[worm]

no, default config is unusable. Don't wait support from inEXILE. They are useless as well as this game or Wasteland 3

[bossbaby👶]

Okay, thankyou.

[Gillsing]

Months later: ProtonDB[www.protondb.com] says that it is "native" and has Deck Verified Status: Playable.

[Nighty]

Do savegames cloud sync for anyone? I believe they worked initially, but they disappeared from my deck, and I can't get them back.

I even manually copied my savegames over from my desktop to the deck, and they still don't show up. Only some autosave at the beginning of the game which does not match the autosave slot on the desktop. I assume $HOME/.config/Wasteland2DC/ is still the correct path?

[Nighty]

I finally figured it out. I noticed when I started the game, even if I don't force any Steam Play compatibility layer, that it installs some Microsoft stuff, among which DirectX. This finally clued me in, as DirectX is not something that runs natively on Linux.

Turns out that for some reason, it uses Proton on the Deck if you don't select a compatibility layer. In order to properly sync savegames between the Deck and a Linux desktop, you have to force the Steam Linux Runtime compatibility layer. I guess this is something that got changed after I started the game for the first time on the Deck, as I strongly seem to recall seeing my savegames on the Deck the first few times I started the game.

I'm assuming Windows users are better off sticking to Proton if they want to have their desktop savegames available on the Deck.

Yes, this presumably also means that if you play the game on multiple machines with different operating systems, savegames will not carry over.

[Shoez]

Originally posted by Nighty:

Do savegames cloud sync for anyone? I believe they worked initially, but they disappeared from my deck, and I can't get them back.

How is performance and battery life?thinking of buying this

[Gillsing]

Originally posted by Shoez:

How is performance and battery life?thinking of buying this

Performance seems okay, but it would be okay compared to my inaccessible desktop computer with only 8 GB RAM and probably a worse graphics card. Battery life is 3 hours. It's not for extended gaming sessions without power, so you'd want to gain access to an outlet. And it's far cheaper than a gaming laptop.

[Misanthrope]

Sorry for the necro, but here's my 2 cents :

Steam OS is a Linux OS, so you probably can get the Linux version of the game on GOG and install it in Desktop Mode.

I sée no reason for it not being possible.

[Aazard]

On my "further trimmed/tweaked" NTLite Windows 11 "Government Edition" Steam Deck it runs "very well" with Fan Made Patch off Nexus Mods. (I used modified version of "Method 3" from link):
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-install-windows-steam-deck/

[Nighty]

Originally posted by Misanthrope:

Sorry for the necro, but here's my 2 cents :

Steam OS is a Linux OS, so you probably can get the Linux version of the game on GOG and install it in Desktop Mode.

I sée no reason for it not being possible.

Why go to GOG to get the Linux version, when Steam also has it? Downloading from GOG and installing in desktop mode is a lot more hassle than just getting it on Steam and downloading through the interface.

Just make sure to choose the same compatibility layer as your main rig if you want savegames to carry over; see my previous comments in this thread for more info on that.