Despite running Linux, the steam deck is able to run a large number of windows games due to valves “Proton layer”, a piece of software that lets games for windows run on the linux framework. Unfortunately, there are a number of anti cheats that don’t play nice with Proton layer. However, Recently it has been confirmed that Epic Games “Easy Anti Cheat” and “BattlEye” will be finding ways to work with proton layers. With that in mind, a number of games have now confirmed that they will be playable on the steam deck.

ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED

In conversation with the verge, developers of the hugly successful dinosaur-survival sim ARK: Survival Evolved Studio Wildcard Said ​​“Yes, we plan to update ARK settings to enable Battleye’s anti-cheat tweak for Steam Deck.” not date has yet been given for when this will happen.

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT

Dead by daylight devs behaviour interactive have gone on the record as saying “I can confirm that we plan on updating our EAC to support the Steam Deck in the future, but we can’t confirm a release date at this time.”

RUST

“Yeah we’re working on it. Hoping to be done by the time the Deck comes out, if not it’ll be really soon after.” The founder of Facepunch, Garry Newman (Creator of Garrys Mod) Told the Verge.

WAR THUNDER

Gaijin Entertainment co-founder Anton Yudinsev said “Yes, we’re planning to do everything we can to make sure that War Thunder works on the Steam Deck.”

OTHER DEVELOPERS

While these were all the developers who actively said yes, there were a number of others who gave a non committal “maybe”. DayZ developer Bohemia interactive said they were still evaluating the Proton Layer. Hi-Rez, Developers of “Smite” and “Paladins” said they “Don’t have a timeline available” but that they were looking to add support to Steam deck some point after the device launches in december.

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Recently, the Modding team Known as SoMNst Released a 37 minute video showing the latest update to their “No VR” mod, an add-on to the critically acclaimed 2020 entry in the legendary “Half-Life”. The mod aims to make the game playable without the need for a VR headset.

Half Life Alyx Released on the 23rd of march, 2020, 13 years after the franchise’s last instalment “Half-Life 2, Episode 2”, which notoriously ended with the shocking death of beloved side character and father of player companion Alyx, Eli Vance. “Half Life: Alyx” itself was a spin off, set before mute theoretical theorist Gordon Freeman was re-inserted into the world by the extra dimensional G-man at the start of Half life 2. The story Follows Alyx Vance as she works to establish a Resistance against The Combine, an interdimensional alien race summoned to earth during the resonance cascade event of the original 1997 Half-Life.

The Half-Life series has always aimed to be on the cutting edge of games technology. The original game, released in 1997, was a huge leap forward for narrative in video games, and especially in the first person shooter genre, with subtle world building and environmental storytelling at the forefront of the experience. Its sequel, released originally in 2004, was a technological marvel, introducing real time physics simulation to the world of gaming, as well as some truly phenomenal facial animations that still help the game look Spectacular today, almost 2 decades later. Alyx continued this trend, being one of the most deep and content rich games for VR to date, with the game dumping the predecessors action tone and instead relying much more on horror to guide the experience.

However this reliance on VR technology has left many unable to experience the game due to the costs of owning such a device. This is where the no VR mod comes in. The mods goal is to remove the need for a VR headset and motion controls. Within the 37 minutes of in-development footage released on September 25th, Mod developers SoMNst show off some of their solutions to make the game work from a more traditional first person perspective. 

For example, very early on in the game you are given a number of pens and an eraser, and while in VR you are able to write on the windows of protagonist Alyx’s hideout. The mod works around this functionality by snapping the pen to the point on the screen where a gun would be held in a normal FPS and then snapping it to the window on a left click. The Demo Footage illustrates this by using these pens to carefully draw an image of the series Protagonist Gordon Freeman. 

In another instance, A door that would normally require the act of the player physically grabbing it with their VR controller to open, has been replaced with a hand icon that responds to a left click, similar to games like “Amnesia” and “SOMA”. For a more in-depth look, you can watch the entire 37 Minute Video below.

The mod is still in development. No final release date has been stated by any of the developers and the development builds are not currently available to the public. However the footage does look very promising and with any luck it will not be long until you are able to play the game with a mouse and keyboard yourself. Half-Life: Alyx is available right now from Steam.

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Job Simulator

All the way into 2050, there is no such thing as a job!

If only, if only.. No such thing as work! Well you can see how that feels with one of SteamVR’s first games; Job Simulator.

Developer of Job Simulator, Owlchemy Labs, has announced that this exciting new game will be one of the very first games designed for Valve’s SteamVR and a range of other virtual reality devices. 

The game is set in 2050, where robots have taken over all things that we consider work! Cooking, cleaning, and other household chores. Job Bot then creates Job Simulator, which goes on to teach humans what it’s like to have a job and actually get off their backsides!

“It’s thrilling to play a part in the upcoming explosion of consumer VR and we’re proud to add another amazing opportunity to the list by being one of only a few select developers building content for some of the most incredible VR hardware in the world,” Owlchemy Labs have said.

You can watch the teaser for Job Simulator HERE which, as you can see, is quite a bit like Surgeon Simulator!  

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