The precocious released multiplatform life-sim, Dreamlight Valley, is simply a bit Animal Crossing, a spot Stardew Valley, and a full batch of Disney. It’s besides the benignant of crippled you mightiness privation to play portion watching a TV show, multitasking with a handheld console. But portion it did travel retired connected Switch, that mentation isn’t great. Luckily, Dreamlight Valley runs large connected Steam Deck with a fewer tweaks. Just beryllium prepared to complaint your Steam Deck earlier playing.

Don’t Worry About What Steam Says, It Works

Steam presently lists Dreamlight Valley’s compatibility with Steam Deck arsenic “Unknown,” which isn’t surprising. What this means is that the crippled has yet to beryllium reviewed by Valve for compatibility. Now, a question people and the deficiency of a verified cheque people mightiness scare you away, but don’t worry. After playing Dreamlight Valley for a fewer hours connected Valve’s beauteous portable PC, I’ve recovered the acquisition to beryllium connected par with astir different playable and verified titles.

However, you mightiness request to alteration your room filters to really find and instal it. Just alteration the filter utilizing the X fastener and power it to amusement each games, adjacent chartless and unsupported. You should past beryllium capable to spot Dreamlight Valley, assuming you ain it.

With A Few Tweaks, This Is A Great Way To Play

Dreamlight Valley on Steam Deck is an good acquisition close retired of the box, but with a fewer tweaks, you tin greatly amended however it plays. Before immoderate changes, the crippled runs astatine a sort-of-stable 60fps. It’s playable, sure, but tin beryllium improved.

First, alteration the solution to 1280x720 (Dreamlight doesn’t enactment the Deck’s autochthonal 1280x800). Leave it astatine 60Hz and trim each the graphical settings to medium. Don’t messiness with the Display Mode setting, arsenic erstwhile I did this it locked up the crippled connected the Steam Deck each time. But, with these settings, you’ll announcement a bully betterment successful framerate stability. You tin driblet the texture prime from default to low, too, arsenic the Deck’s tiny surface does a bully occupation of hiding the driblet successful quality. But successful my clip with the game, it wasn’t a indispensable tweak.

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Once you’ve got Dreamlight Valley moving bully connected the Steam Deck, you tin besides instrumentality vantage of the touchscreen, letting you easy determination items astir successful your inventory and chests. If you’re similar maine and emotion to often re-organize these spaces, playing connected Steam Deck is fantastic compared to utilizing a console controller. I find the game’s inventory absorption clip consuming and clunky connected a gamepad, particularly compared to a rodent oregon the Deck’s touchscreen.

If you’re logging connected conscionable to cheque the store, bash immoderate mining, and works immoderate much crops, the Steam Deck is perfect. Lately I’ve spent an hr each evening playing a spot of Dreamlight Valley while watching Taskmaster or random YouTube videos.

Charge Your Steam Deck Thoroughly First 

In my investigating of battery-draining games connected the Steam Deck, Dreamlight Valley is not the worst offender, not adjacent close. But it does drain the Deck quicker than I expected. I conjecture each that Disney magic doesn’t travel for free, huh?

Using the settings I shared earlier and without tweaking the system’s artillery settings, it seems a afloat charged Steam Deck tin play for astir 2 and a fractional to 3 hours depending connected what you bash in-game. Of course, changes to settings tin interaction artillery life, but don’t expect overmuch much than 3 hours.

In short, with a fewer insignificant tweaks, Dreamlight Valley is large connected the Deck. In fact, it mightiness conscionable beryllium the champion mode to play this caller slice-of-life game, particularly if you’re idiosyncratic who likes to multitask oregon prefers lounging extracurricular connected the patio erstwhile gaming. Just marque definite you complaint your Deck up first.