The Steam Deck solely had just a few weeks of attending to know Last Fantasy XIV earlier than the latter’s 6.08 replace wrenched them aside. In much less undeservedly romantic phrases, it was the MMO’s newly added launcher that – not like the remainder of the sport – didn’t work effectively in any respect with the Deck’s Proton compatibility software program. Two months later, nonetheless, Valve have launched an replace on Proton’s experimental department that fixes the launcher, making FFXIV playable on the hand held PC as soon as once more.

As noticed by Gaming On Linux, the most recent Proton Experimental patch contains the FFXIV launcher repair alongside a bunch of different enhancements, like fixing video playback in Ghostwire: Tokyo and a few crash-proofing for Elden Ring – itself a earlier beneficiary of ongoing Proton improvement. Beforehand, attempting to launch the FFXIV launcher would make it hold perpetually; this replace ought to be certain it opens as anticipated, granting passage into the sport correct. Excellent news for cellular FFXIV gamers together with, as Gabe Newell advised us, the Valve founder himself.

I can’t consider some other video games that ran tremendous on the Linux-based Steam Deck earlier than immediately and comprehensively hobbling themselves, so this can be a notable replace for fortunately concluding one of many Deck’s extra egregious compatibility misadventures. If you happen to’ve been the sufferer of an unplayable Last Fantasy and it wasn’t your fault, you may both apply the Proton Experimental replace now, or simply anticipate it to inevitably launch on the primary Proton department. For the previous, you’ll want to put in Proton Experimental from the Steam Retailer, enter FFXIV’s Properties menu on the Steam Deck, and drive it to launch utilizing Proton Experimental through the Compatibility tab.

There are many different video games to strive on the Deck, in fact. Hundreds! If you happen to fancy some strategies, have a learn of our information to the 30 finest Steam Deck video games, or seek the advice of this checklist of all of the Steam Deck Verified video games to examine in case your favourites have aced Valve’s compatibility evaluation assessments.