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The whole verified thing can't be trusted. I tried to play CyberPunk on my deck. The on-screen text is unreadable, the framerate is highly unstable and all in all it's just a bad experience. I ended up signing up to nVidia Geforce Now and finished it on there. Hogwarts legacy was just as unplayable, textures failing to load, bad framerates, bugs and crashes. I don't have the deck anymore because I can't trust that "verified" games are going to be playable.

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That's just Hogwarts Legacy though, and nothing specific to the Steam Deck. It was an awful buggy mess no matter where/how you played it and the devs basically did next to no bug patching post-launch.

That said, I did play the entirety of the game on the Steam Deck and it was totally fine. The bugs were unrelated to the Steam Deck.

> It was an awful buggy mess no matter where/how you played it

finished the game on the ps5. encountered 2 minor bugs.

Lucky you. Many of us were not so lucky. My save file is somehow permanently bugged and as of halfway through the game I could not collect any more of the hidden scrolls and the devs just close my bug tickets without any communication or clarification as "duplicate" of some other tickets which were entirely unrelated and was never fixed.

I played Cyberpunk 2077 through its entirety on the Steam Deck. The text is not "unreadable". It's not even the smallest font I've seen on the Steam Deck. You might want to visit your eye doctor. Framerate could have been better but it was a more solid experience than Skyrim or Fallout New Vegas on PS3 which were playable too. Or really countless other games of that era. Verified doesn't mean perfect. It just means it's not a PITA to use, all content works and runs well enough.

Agreed. I only played Cyberpunk on the Deck for a few hours, but I was impressed how well it ran. 40fps worked fine for long stretches, and the text size wasn't an issue in the slightest.

You can always use the Steam button + Left Bumper to zoom, or in this specific case use a mod and call it a day: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/xca50u/is_it_pos...

I agree it shouldn't be verified though.

From another perspective (rarely spending more than 20$ on a game) I am surprised how often games just work, no matter if they are officially supported or not. I rarely check to be honest, they just work.

Of these 'smaller games', the ones that didn't work and I had to return, the majority was made with unity and full of bug reports for windows as well.

Is the on-screen text unreadable because the screen is too small, or is it a different issue? Of course not all games will be suitable for such a small screen. On my big-screen Linux PC, Cyberpunk works absolutely flawlessly. Well, not entirely flawlessly; I think I've had three times that it crashed, and when it does, it hangs the compositor until I kill the Cyberpunk process. Could be an X11/Wayland issue.

The text was really small but also garbled/twisted in weird ways. Looking back it may have been an upscaling issue possibly, I don't know, I just expected a "verified" title to run well and be playable with default settings.

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