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So let me get this straight. They ported the game to a whole nother platform, arbitrarily restricted it to a device that benefits very little, and will not be making it available for desktop systems that make up more marketshare, have significantly more users asking for it, would benefit from it far more, and would actually be impactful to the wider industry for having a GOTY winner ported natively to the platform.

Instead, they spent all that time and effort limiting it to one device whose only benefit to a native port will be less battery consumption and marginally faster loading, won't even run at 60 FPS and in all likelyhood doesn't even have the potential to earn a single extra sale.

...that just feels like a waste of development resources. What was the point? Why even bother?

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Hopefully they will provide the unnamed dedicated engineer some monetary tribute, and not just leaving this version as-is until it is old and broken, like so many of similar "projects" I know of...

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With how big games are getting nowadays (I've seen 100+ GB), with 256 GB you'll run into storage limits real quick. I have a 512 GB Deck and I've had to do some juggling.

I just pimped my 64 GB model with an SD card.

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I would love to get one of those, but unfortunately Valve won't sell me one...

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Hmmm . . . So, I wonder what happens if you have a Steam Deck, download it there, then copy it over to your Linux desktop and play it there? Would it complain if you didn't play offline?

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As a linux backer of Divinity: Original Sin, all I can say is: joke's on you, Larian

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Has someone tried the steamdeck=1 launch option on Linux Desktop?

As stated in the article, due to the way it's setup, it will only currently download on Steam Deck.

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Has someone tried the steamdeck=1 launch option on Linux Desktop?

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developers that use premade engines with compiling linux build via one button press: "noooooo making linux version is so hard"

indie developers with inhouse engines: "so I just need to rewrite system calls and rendering hooks to linux? seems easy"

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Different type of bullying. You are referencing the typical school yard bully out to get someone. The OP is referring to bullying within a relationship, like among friends.

Ah, so what we are talking about here is peer pressure?

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I was thinking -- wouldn't it be funny if Pocketpair beat Nintendo to the punch and patented a feature that would put Nintendo in violation?

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I guess it's nice of Larian to provide a native Steam Deck build, especially for a game that's out for years now. Wonder if they are gearing up for better Linux support of future games ... *dreaming*

For me right now it is pointless, though: (1) I have no Steam Deck. (2) I have the game on GOG (and gave the Steam key I got with the physical edition away). (3) I've already finished the game, and see no reason to play again in the foreseeable future.

But it's not like Larian would need to win my sympathy with stuff like that. They already got that :-).

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I was getting ready to eat my socks and then I saw the note about Steam Deck only. I'm left pondering how one might go about masquerading their Linux gaming system as a "Steam Deck" in order to obtain the native download. And then to check what happens when invoking the game binary from terminal (or other hacky things to see if it will run).

Still, an overall positive development.

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The monkey's paw curls...

@Avehicle7887

They wouldn't need to support all Linux though. Just desktop SteamOS.

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"FOR ALL PLAYERS AND SCREAMERS", I suppose that means it will be multiplatform.

I think the 'screamers' is a reference to 'scream streamers' on twitch; they may have tailor made this game to farm engagement via those channels.

So it's for 'players' on xbox, and scream-streamer-viewers otherwise.

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Part of me wishes to complain how Steam Deck users get their own native version of the game. On the other hand I also understand that advertising the game as officially Linux supported will open a can of worms due to the thousands of different hardware combinations and driver versions. So yeah, not blaming Larian for their decision.

Can anyone copy the "Steam Deck" version to a Linux desktop to see how it runs?


@melkemind: I believe they did a Linux version as they sort-of promised it in their Kickstarter. This was of course all the way back in 2013 and the native version required a user-made patch to run on anything other than proprietary Nvidia drivers. Personally I'm currently playing through it using the Windows version with over 63 hours in already and I haven't encountered any crashes or issues.

The way I see it - BG3 runs fine using Wine/Proton on desktop. Could it run better as native? Possibly, but then again nowadays I'm fine with playing Windows games in Linux as long as they run almost on par.

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Oh wow the clown prince of cringe is back.

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"FOR ALL PLAYERS AND SCREAMERS", I suppose that means it will be multiplatform.

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I haven't yet tried to play it on my Deck. I know it's rated to be great on Deck, but does its relatively complex, text-heavy UI even work all that well on it?

The Deck gets a different UI entirely so that it works on the smaller screen and with controller support.

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It does not affect GOG at all, this is for Steam Deck.

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This is cool, but I wish they would have addressed the GOG version in their documentation. I'll have to test and hopefully it's the same process of forcing the linux runtime.

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I haven't yet tried to play it on my Deck. I know it's rated to be great on Deck, but does its relatively complex, text-heavy UI even work all that well on it?

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As a big fan of Animal Crossing, I think this looks awesome.

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No, you cannot install the Native build on Desktop, it is tagged for Linux+Steam Deck so it only downloads on Steam Deck.

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For all other Linux systems from PCs to different handhelds, you'll want to stick with Proton.

That's not really the take away. You can run the native build, but you shouldn't expect support. They aren't supporting running the Windows version through Proton, either.

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Yes, article updated to note this. Force Proton on it manually.

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Anyone else have the game basically uninstalled after "downloading" the patch? The game folder is empty now. Only when choosing a Proton version the game downloads something, else it shows that it wants to download 0 Byte.

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Let's just hope that work on Palfarm won't interfere with More Than Just Pals's release schedule.

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Y'know, I'm starting to think it's not better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

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They had a native Linux version of the first Divinity: Original Sin, so I guess it's good to know they still know how to do it. Hopefully, we'll someday get to the point where it's the norm rather than an afterthought.

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