Enshrouded is another recent big hit for Steam, as players continue to love their open-world crafting games and the good news is that the developers at Keen Games plan to get it working better on Steam Deck.
Currently, the experience on Steam Deck is…terrible. I'm being quite kind too, it's constantly below 30FPS even at the start, and worse when things get going. You can adjust it a little with things like Resolution Scaling but the visuals are noticeably worse when doing so. It's just not good.
Thankfully their roadmap for 2024 has just been put up and clearly detailed is "Steam Deck Support" along with performance improvements and lots of gameplay additions like new enemies, new NPCs, UI improvements and the list goes on.
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So how big is Enshrouded? Well you might be surprised (or not) to learn that on February 20th the developer announced it had already crossed over 2 million sales. Some impressive numbers, and it's seeing regularly around 20,000 concurrent players each day putting it in the Top 100 most played games on Steam constantly. Considering the massive competition for gamer attention it's doing well.
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Enshrouded is available on Steam in Early Access.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
After the release of the Steam Deck I've seen nobody blunt their teeth on either Linux or Steam Deck support. I've seen developers aiming to become Steam Deck verified, but support, no.
This would be the first in nearly a decade to try it.
They will fail.
I don't know what will make it hard, but although they might get it working they won't be able to consistently support it.
Also they're way too optimistic with this roadmap.
38 features in a year for one game.
Yeah some overlap, but nah won't happen.
rustybroomhandle Mar 13
This is too good to be true.
After the release of the Steam Deck I've seen nobody blunt their teeth on either Linux or Steam Deck support. I've seen developers aiming to become Steam Deck verified, but support, no.
This would be the first in nearly a decade to try it.
They will fail.
I don't know what will make it hard, but although they might get it working they won't be able to consistently support it.
Also they're way too optimistic with this roadmap.
38 features in a year for one game.
Yeah some overlap, but nah won't happen.
They did not say they were doing a Linux port. It'll just be optimisations and usability fixes like font size and gamepad stuff.
This is too good to be true.There's been loads that have adjusted their games, fixed problems, improved performance and implemented features for Steam Deck. I've been covering it constantly for 2 years. I suggest you hit the Steam Deck tag and go back and look.
After the release of the Steam Deck I've seen nobody blunt their teeth on either Linux or Steam Deck support. I've seen developers aiming to become Steam Deck verified, but support, no.
This would be the first in nearly a decade to try it.
They will fail.
I don't know what will make it hard, but although they might get it working they won't be able to consistently support it.
Also they're way too optimistic with this roadmap.
38 features in a year for one game.
Yeah some overlap, but nah won't happen.
rustybroomhandle Mar 13
There's been loads that have adjusted their games, fixed problems, improved performance and implemented features for Steam Deck. I've been covering it constantly for 2 years. I suggest you hit the Steam Deck tag and go back and look.
On that topic, the Dragon's Dogma 2 character creator that released this week has the Steam Deck on-screen keyboard hook implemented, which is something a developer has to manually add in. So that gives me hope for the game itself at least being looked at on the Steam Deck, despite the fact that they only seem to be targeting 30fps on the consoles.
Also they're way too optimistic with this roadmap.
38 features in a year for one game.
Yeah some overlap, but nah won't happen.
It really depends on how clean their code is, how competent their employees are, how easy the features are to implement, and so on. According to their website, Keen Games is a team of 58 people. It's not exactly a solo project.
Good, good. I have my eye on this one, but I want to give it more time in the oven. Them paying attention to Steam Deck should ensure that it runs well on Linux in general as well :)
I wished more game developers took the time to pay more attention to the Steam Deck because anything they do to make it work better is a plus in my book and may tempt me to buy their games from them over anything else.
TheRiddick Mar 14
I don't like burning myself out on a early access yet complete game and then running out of interest by the time its finished because I overdid it.
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