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Alice: Madness Returns appears on Steam again, works well on Steam Deck with 60FPS fix

By Liam Dawe,
Alice: Madness Returns is an absolute classic from Spicy Horse Games and EA. It vanished from Steam for years and it recently arrived back.

Here's how to mod Stardew Valley on the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get Stardew Valley setup on the Steam Deck with mods? It's quite easy to do but there's a few steps you have to go through, here's a guide on what to do.

Heroic Games Launcher now on Flathub, even easier to run Epic Games on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Heroic Games Launcher, the community-made open source app for the Epic Games Store, is now available as a Flatpak on Flathub making it even easier to install and setup on Linux and Steam Deck.

Getting Minecraft and mods on Steam Deck is nice and simple

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get Minecraft working easily on Steam Deck or a normal Linux desktop without much fuss? Here's one way you could do it and it makes it easy.

Here's how to get the EA App on Steam Deck with Bottles

By Liam Dawe,
Another guide for you today. For those of you who want to use the EA App on the Steam Deck (or a Linux desktop!), here's one of the possible ways to do it using Bottles.

An update on installing Epic Games on Steam Deck, plus accessing the SD Card

By Liam Dawe,
This is a short update to my previous guide on installing the Epic Games store on the Steam Deck using Proton, plus how to enable access to an SD Card.

ProtonUp-Qt got upgraded, here's how to use it on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonUp-Qt is a very helpful application that can help you install extra compatibility layers on Linux and Steam Deck.

The itch.io app works on a Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Do you own a lot of games on itch.io? I do, and a huge amount more from past charity bundles I've yet to go and claim so maybe the Steam Deck will help me and you get through them all.

Here's how to transfer files from your PC to a Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Want to transfer files to and from your PC to a Steam Deck? It's easy and here's how you can do it in a few minutes.

Heroic Games Launcher now works nicely on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Something that I've been asked, repeatedly (and then some), is to show the Heroic Games Launcher on the Steam Deck. So here we are, let's take a look.

Steam Deck - using Luxtorpeda for Morrowind, Warzone 2100 and X-COM

By Liam Dawe,
The Steam Deck is clearly great with a lot of modern titles and plenty of AAA games, but what about the classics? For that Luxtorpeda can provide a great experience on Deck.

Proton Experimental Beta gets Steam Deck performance fix for ELDEN RING

By Liam Dawe,
Are you finding that ELDEN RING has some mad stuttering when loading things in the background? Valve has released an update for Proton Experimental in the bleeding-edge Beta to help.

Steam Deck desktop mode plus other stores — Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe,
You have your shiny new Steam Deck, which I’ve gone over in an initial look on — but what about desktop mode apps and other stores? I’ve also been testing that with the Epic Games Store.

ELDEN RING is out and Verified for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
ELDEN RING is the latest game developed by FromSoftware who are known for games including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Dark Souls. It's out now, with a Steam Deck Verified rating - so it works on Linux with Steam Play Proton.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player mod is out now

By Liam Dawe,
While the actual single-player campaign of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory never officially happened, a modder has now released their attempt to bring it back with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player.

SteamVR Overlay not working on Arch or Manjaro Linux? Here's a fix

By Liam Dawe,
Sadly, SteamVR on Linux continues to have quite a lot of quirks and over time it's gotten a little rough, here's a way to fix the SteamVR Overlay not working.

Having VR issues on Linux? You should look to disable async reprojection

By Liam Dawe,
Virtual Reality is still a niche and doing it on Linux is a niche within a niche, that said when it works it's brilliant but there's a few problematic issues that have arisen recently.

Among Us not connecting on Linux with Proton? Here's a simple fix

By Liam Dawe,
Among Us continues to be a very popular game and it can run quite nicely on Linux with Steam Play Proton, however if you have issues with it not connecting or getting a black screen - there's a really simple fix.

Proton GE gets some big updates but you may need to remove old Wine prefixes

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE (GloriousEggroll) is a community-built version of the Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux through Steam Play.

Resident Evil Village gets better on Linux with the latest Proton Experimental

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and CodeWeavers have once again updated Proton Experimental, bringing with it a needed fix for Resident Evil Village running on Linux.
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