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Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has officially arrived on Steam, and thankfully it does work on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.

In the Steam release announcement the developers noted "We will continue to make optimizations to improve compatibility on handheld PC gaming devices" so hopefully the experience on Steam Deck will get improvements in that. Additionally they're working on bringing AMD FSR 3 including Frame Generation in a future update.

As reported earlier by me, Valve released updates to both Proton Experimental and Proton Hotfix recently although there was no announcement on Proton Hotfix changes just yet, we can now see that at least on Steam Deck that Valve picked Proton Hotfix by default. So Proton Hotfix likely has some adjustments in it needed for the best experience.

Steam Deck shots provided by one of our Discord moderators, running it on the default settings (click to enlarge):

Good to see another fresh release working thanks to Proton! Early areas at least seem to give around 30FPS, but as we know from games this big, later areas may bring performance down just like the first game that can cause some issues.

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Jarmer Mar 21
I just spent a couple hours in game, and man ........ the visual quality. Stunning puts it mildly. It's kind of crazy that I thought the original Horizon had the best visual quality I'd ever seen and now the only thing to take that crown is this. Nothing else comes close that I've seen. I was also worried about performance, but I'm getting constant 60+ fps which is perfect for me. I'm on:

Ryzen 7 5800x
Radeon RX 6800 XT
32g ram
3440x1440
all settings on "high" in game
no upscaling/frame gen/etc
all the garbage stuff like chromatic aberration turned off (not sure if this helps perf at all?)

Pretty wonderful what these devs have accomplished. Now to get out of the tutorial mode and start exploring the world! I know a lot of people were turned off by the open world of the first game, but I absolutely loved it. Completely almost every single thing there was to do. I hope I plan on doing the same here!
MayeulC Mar 21
I can't wait to ply this, but I have so many other titles to play first, including the first one. Oh well, at least I'll get to play it *after* it gets optimized :)

Anyone knows how well the busier sections perform?


Last edited by MayeulC on 21 March 2024 at 5:54 pm UTC
Zappor Mar 21
Running great in 4K on 6800 XT so far!
STiAT Mar 21
I'll wait for some discount. I liked the first one, but I'm not willing to spend 60 bucks for that at the moment. Have enough other games to play for now which wait to be played for years now :D.
KROM Mar 21
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Wonderful game, which flawlessly works on my, admittedly beefy, rig. I'm just happy I don't have to buy a PS these days to experience games like this.

After a couple, I thought I might want to try to stream it to my deck and from there output to my TV, but boy, it's a mess.
With Steam Remote Play my controller won't work in the game. With Sunshine, which I've tried for the first time, Resolution is messed up, Controller connection is flaky at best - for whatever reason - and quality isn't up to par.

If Valve had to fix two things with the deck it would be Remote Play and those god damn download speeds when transferring data from my main PC to the deck - I gave up and am installing it directly on the deck now.

But, again, wonderful game.
skinnyraf Mar 22
The first game I played on the Deck using Chiaki. A great game, a nice take on a little stale open world genre.
Thibug Mar 22
I'm going to wait and see if it get released on GOG like HZD, still haven't finished HZD so I don't need to get it for now anyway
Xpander Mar 22
Didn't like the first game. Tried to start it 3 times with different mindset, but the gameplay was dull and characters super bland and uninteresting. gameplay was kinda meh also like tomb raider games. Environment was super well done though. And thats just me i guess. So i wont buy it. Maybe when its on big sale later this year or next year.

Good to see day 1 working big titles on Linux though!
Happy for those who want to play this!
M@GOid Mar 22
Quoting: KROMI'm just happy I don't have to buy a PS these days to experience games like this.

PS owners are really upset that their precious exclusives are now available to the PC Master Race®. I was dubious about this until I saw it with my own eyes, when I mentioned it while talking to one of those dirty peasants.
slaapliedje Mar 22
I'll wait until the modders fix her face to look like the first one. :P

"Pretty woman get us to buy beer, ugly women make us drink beer!" - Al Bundy.


Last edited by slaapliedje on 22 March 2024 at 3:09 pm UTC
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