Are you using GOG games on your Steam Deck?

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jqubed@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

A couple games popped up on my Steam wishlist at really low prices so I was thinking of getting them, but I’ve also had a few older computers recently that are losing Steam client support. This got me thinking I should really try to compare and get more games on GOG so it doesn’t matter if a client stops working on older hardware. But also following this community has had me thinking a Steam Deck makes a lot of sense for me, so maybe I’ll try to get one in the next year or two. It seems like Steam tries to keep things open to other sources on the device, but have you been playing non-Steam games, and how much hassle has it been?

Also the games I was considering are Donut County and Planet Coaster, if you have any thoughts on those.

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Imma_lazyboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Installing heroic game launcher allows for easy use of Ubisoft, gig, epic game stores. Note not all games work, but hey. That’s part of the fun.

I’ve had good success so far with it.

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- stuckgum@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This launcher breaks for me all the time. I must be doing something wrong…
  
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  - rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Heroic has definitely had some brown-paper-bag releases. I’ve had to roll back and hold off on Heroic for a lot of their “major” updates.
    
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  - Imma_lazyboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How does it break? The app doesn’t open? Or games do not work? Are you able to log into the gog store? Can you install a game?
    
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rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Most games I bought are from GOG and I play them easily on my Steam Deck using Heroic Games Launcher.

Step-by-step:

Switch to desktop mode

Open Heroic Games Launcher

Install game from GOG

Log in to GOG if you’re not already

Add the game to Steam launcher using Heroic

Switch back to gaming mode

Play
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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve played non-Steam games no bother. Heroic Launcher and Lutris are your friends and can handle everything from downloading and installing to tweaking settings and adding it to Game Mode.

Most games that I play after pretty old so ymmv. Check any games in ProtonDB - if they are well-rated you’ll be fine.

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- soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  and adding it to Game Mode
  
  Wait, waaaaaat? Lutris can do that? Okay, time to download it on my Steam Deck, like, right now. (Okay, not actually right now, I am at work, but today in the evening.)
  
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  - nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Both Heroic and Lutris have the capability, iirc.
    
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Beetschnapps@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not difficult at all to install GOG games on steam deck. The games that typically show up in GOG aren’t bleeding edge and tend to work well with the steam deck’s hardware. If you understand that steamdeck has a “console” mode and a “desktop” mode… I’m not sure what the confusion may be. If you can’t understand the difference between a pc and a console, I’m not sure why you own a steamdeck.

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airbussy@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve played Yakuza 0 with Heroic on the Deck. The game ran well, no problems. Just had more issues with cloud sync between desktop and Deck (manually activate a sync), and achievements not working. Eventually got so fed up that I rebought the game on Steam to get those two working again…

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- stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah lack of proper Linux launchers from other platforms for saves and achievements has pushed me towards Steam since I switch between desktop and deck frequently.
  
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- Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Cloud saves is the biggest issue for me. There’s some cloud save options via Decky plugins, but I haven’t given those a fair shake, yet.
  
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes I using gog games on my deck, they work fine! Think about it this way, windows is shitting the bed and if it takes a second to navigate a linux desktop to install a program… well you are helping your future self out who is going to have to learn linux anyways lol.

“Jokes” aside once you add a non-steam game to the steam launcher, you are good to go. There is even a decky plugin called decky-SteamgridDB that lets you very very quickly add community/fan artwork to your non-steam game entry to spruce it up with artwork, icons and a custom banner so it looks like an official steam game does from the steam launcher in Gaming mode.

github.com/SteamGridDB/decky-steamgriddb

Check out the hero launcher

heroicgameslauncher.com

Also the Decky plugin junkstore

github.com/ebenbruyns/junkstore

Recently I have been experimenting with running all kinds of professional software outside of gaming contexts on my Steam Deck (using gyroscope to make mouse driven interfaces a breeze). I have made videos in Kdenlive, edited images in GIMP and Inkscape. I threw a geology paper into GIMP, extracted some figures and pulled them into Blender and created a visualization for a paper about plate tectonics. I got Emacs and the Emacs distribution Spacemacs working totally fine on my steam deck (and have a decent letter input keybinding scheme that doesn’t require touchscreen input).

Jupyterlab works great on my Steam Deck, and I have used it in conjunction with seismic signal analysis python packages to mess around. GNU Octave works great too.

QGIS and JOSM both work totally fine on the Steam Deck too.

I am using all this software mainly by adding it to steam as a non-steam game and staying mostly in Gaming Mode just because I actually much prefer the focused nature of its windows to a normal desktop with fiddly windows you have to click all over the place on to do basic shit (I like window managers on desktop OS like I3 or whatever).

So yeah… in my opinion? Not a hassle. Not perfect, but good enough that any friction you encounter isn’t going to stop you if you end up loving the experience of using the deck.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Most of the games I play on my Deck come from other sources. I install them via Lutris (because that’s what I’m used to) in desktop mode and then add them to Steam. Heroic or Bottles should work as well if you find them easier to use.

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m conflicted bc GoG has no DRM but also no Linux support. But yeah I try to remember to check it before buying on Steam and I have several games I play on SD.

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- Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You don’t need a client to play games bought on GoG you can just download the install file, that’s usually even better than a proprietary client.
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What does the client have to do with anything?
    
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