My Steam Deck came in the mail today, and of course the first game I had to try out was Blockland. And despite the "unknown" compatibility rating from steam, it actually worked on the first try.
I joined Age of Dungeons, and playing online felt normal.
I tried hosting
and while no one joined me, I did try loading in a ton of default saves, and it handled it just fine.
videoI'd describe the controls as good enough for just playing casually, but
probably definitely unusable for building. Surprisingly, there was a community bind made for the deck, revealing that someone tried this before me. The other issue I had was the inability to run shaders above minimum. Setting any higher would immediately crash the game.
It's pretty interesting to see how far SteamOS and Proton have come, considering
how well blockland used to run (I wonder if Badspot still has that steam machine....) But yeah, if you felt the need to play blockland on the go, it does indeed work on the Steam Deck. Assuming you can get used to playing with controller binds.
