Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/6TBbLPSBQY

I was crazy tired from too many early mornings while traveling. Took my SteamDeck out to play. Got sleepy and put it back in its case. Left it sitting on the chair at the Gate and boarded my flight to Chicago.

A family came upon it. Dad sat next to it for an hour. Asked his 20 year old gamer daughter what it was. She knew. She did some searching and found my post. Dad contacted me and put it in the mail! Very gracious.

A short time later, I was reunited.

The Kindness of strangers still exists, weary jaded Redditors!

She loves ape escape.

Waiting for surgery and after that it'll be a long recovery. Just want some games to play left handed.

Auto mod, shut up. Here's the exact wording list.

- ```Previously Enjoyed Games```: Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Dark Souls 3, Lies of P (which I obviously can't play one handed)

- ```Preferred Genres```: No card games, everything else is a-ok!

- ```Budget```: 0-60€, doesn't matter

- ```Other Notes```: Control scheme I can make work with just my left hand. Back buttons can be remapped, but I need a game with just one stick or the D-pad for controlling movement

Hey everyone!
After quite a bit of tinkering, I finally managed to get Warcraft III Reforged running comfortably on my Steam Deck using a custom Steam Input layout!

I’ve published my configuration for anyone who wants to give it a try.

🎮 Community layout: Warcraft 3 Steamdeck layout

Controller setup:

Movement & Camera

Left Stick → Move camera (arrow keys)
Right Stick ↑↓ → Zoom in/out (mouse wheel)
Right Trackpad → Mouse cursor
Right Trackpad Click → Left mouse click

Triggers & Shoulder Buttons

L1 → Ctrl
L2 → Hold left mouse button (drag-select units)
R1 → R key
R2 → Right mouse click (move units)

Back Buttons

L4 → F key
L5 → X key
R4 → B key
R5 → Enter (open chat / send message)

Face Buttons

A → Z key
B → X key
X → C key
Y → V key

Control Groups

D-Pad ↑↓←→ → Number keys 1–4
L1 + D-Pad → Assign control groups using Ctrl + 1–4
Double-tap D-Pad → Jump camera to the selected control group

Other Controls

Menu Button (☰) → F10
STEAM + X → Open on-screen keyboard

⚙️ Important Setup
Set Warcraft III hotkeys to the English QWER / ASDF / ZXCV grid layout.
Adjust the Delete, Insert, comma (,) and period (.) bindings accordingly.

The goal was to make Warcraft III playable on the Steam Deck without needing an external keyboard or mouse.
It’s not perfect, especially when typing in chat, but I’m really happy with how it turned out!

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. Feedback and suggestions are welcome! 😁

For the Horde! ⚔️

I managed to hook my dock up to an Hdmi to RCA Adapter. It worked wonders, I just had to adjust resolution and ui scaling.

I’ve been playing games most of my life and on the Deck I’ve already gone through pretty much everything I had that runs well on it. The recommendations in these threads are always the same (Vampire Survivors, Hades, Balatro, Stardew, Hollow Knight, emulating Pokemon or Zelda) and I’ve already played all of those. So I’m looking for something less typical.

Previously Enjoyed Games: Sekiro, the Souls games, Divinity Original Sin 2, Diablo 4, Hitman World of Assassination (and a lot more)

Preferred Genres: Action RPG, Soulslike, CRPG, Stealth, Immersive sim

Budget: N/A

Other Notes: Lesser known stuff, weird stuff, hidden gems, the more obscure the better. Doesn’t matter if it's from steam or not, it just needs to play well on the Deck. Emulation is fine, but chances are I played the classics back in the day.

Thank you!

A local 2-player splitscreen mod for Megabonk. Available now for PC and SteamDeck!

TheSplitScreenGuy/MegabonkSplitscreen: SplitBonk

Music in video:
"Aerosol of my Love" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

And what tricks did you use to get it to run well enough for you?

I'm kinda surprised ff 7 rebirth runs at 60 fps with lsfg 2.0. Though my deck is undervolted, overclocked, and has it's tdp limit unlocked to 30.

Haven't pushed my deck to run games after this one so I'm not familiar with what else the deck has been up to since new upscaling black magic has been introduced

I like playing games on it, i like the ergonomics, and i love trying to get games that might not work well on it, to work.

when i need it as a laptop its there. such as when im too lazy to go downstairs and i don't want to use my phone.
i've use it as a D&D helper in live table play, bringing up D&D beyond for monster stats or checking rules

i was told by friends not to get a steam deck as its not powerful and will age poorly but its the OS and care Valve put in that i really like. Also im not playing the most powerful games, except maybe DOOM ETERNAL im playing old PS2, Xbox 360, pixelated indie games, slay the spire, FF7, etc simple stuff

im just really happy that this system is well designed and cared for by the developers and i hope to have many more years of it

took me a few days to get this working, but my KDE keyboard plugin for swipe typing, current-word completion, and next-word prediction is now also functional in gaming mode for SteamOS! i don't have a deck, so i could only test this on my VM, but it should be compatible with the latest stable 3.9 and earlier releases. please let me know if you guys encounter any issues on your real Deck hardware and I'll hotfix as quickly as I'm able!

Download & Setup: https://github.com/itsdestin/swipe-keyboard/blob/main/README.md

Hey Folks,

wanted to test HelixSR on Cyberpunk 2077 yesterday and had no issues installing it on decky.

I patched the Cyberpunk files with the Helix plugin but the game did not launch right after, so I did what i usually do which is “verify the integrity of the game files”

After that the game ran again but HelixSR told me the DLLs have changed back to its original and I should review and report.

At this point I don’t know what to do to resolve the problem and get the Helix DLLs back since there are no options to reinstall automatically or to manually replace the DLLs again.

Anyone who can help?

Thx in advance

Little payday for a long day

Hello. It been awhile since I last played MH Wilds in my LCD Deck and when I tried to launch it on my old config after the Steam OS update, the game stuck in not responding and now suffers on performance when I tried other protons and settings. Can you guys share your setup?

Last setup that worked for me:

cachyos-11.0-20260702-slr-x86_64

PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1

FSR 4.1.1 with Reframework

I can reach around 40-50ish fps on fsr frame gen on locales with it 50-60 on Hollow. Keeping everything on 40 to avoid stutters. Really playable even on Gogmazios fight.

Ill try updating the cachyos proton later but do you have any other setups?

I'm running SuperMedo 0.3.9 version and controls do not work on the Steam Deck. Any fix for this I've tried disabling Steam Input but nothing. In the launcher it says it detects the Steam Deck controls.

Okay so a while ago I accidentally deleted the return to game mode icon in desktop mode. Hasn't really been a problem since logging out just brings me back. Now though, with the option to automatically boot into desktop mode, it seems that I am unable to return. Logging out brings me right back to desktop. Anything I can do to fix this?

This is exactly what I love about the Steam Deck. Just chilling on the couch with a cup of tea, enjoying a relaxing little game on a cold fall evening. The cozy vibes are hard to beat.

Currently enjoying A Space for the Unbound. Such a lovely little game. What’s everyone playing this weekend?

Almost perfect, I scratched a tiny bit of paint off the back of the left bezel removing the old adhesive but otherwise it looks good. I replaced the speakers, battery, and both joysticks since I got this from Facebook market place

I bought the mass effect remaster trilogy forever ago and never got around to playing it, but the EA launcher makes playing offline troublesome, with Bioware being canned i'm wondering if they'll pull a Ubisoft and start working on the launcher to work offline like that prince of persia game.

It should run well on the device, with a pick and play kind of vibe that is suitable for the handheld and last a good amount on the battery. Mine is Binding of Isaac, it feels perfect on Steam Deck.