I used it to play deltarune on my OnePlus 8T. Amazing! Steam deck everywhere!
DroidDeck looks great but at the moment only really seems good for Qualcomm devices. I tested a fork that is adding other GPU support on my Pixel Fold yesterday and got a few games to run but most did not. Balatro ran but was missing text, Half Life 1 worked pretty much fine, a lot of games did not boot at all. I am impressed at DroidDeck’s desktop mode though, they have a Wayland KDE session and Flatpak running, something Termux doesn’t seem to have working yet.
e I just ordered an Ayn Thor recently but I’m going to put proper Linux on it with ArmadaOS or something.
I think you can put SteamOS on the Thor now that Valve has put out an ARM version for the Frame.
That’s what I plan to do, at least with ArmadaOS. I don’t think you can put actual SteamOS from Valve on it, it needs to be an ARM Linux OS tailored to the hardware that runs the SteamOS components. ArmadaOS seems to be a Fedora spin similar to Bazzite.
I didn’t really look into it, but saw articles (and lots of videos on YT) like this: https://vr.org/articles/steam-frame-steamos-android-handhelds-rocknix-lepton-2026
I’m sure it’s constantly being improved, but it looks like you can do it. They’re using the ARM SteamOS image Valve put out for Frame I think.
Has anyone compared it to gamenative?
I haven’t seen any specific comparison but they all use the same underlying technology so there shouldn’t be a big difference. The big advantage of DroidDeck is getting the Steam interface.
The good thing of gamenative is, besides GOG support, that they’re linked to a configuration repository from other users, I wonder how DroidDeck manages independent configurations for each game.
My OnePlus 7 is not fully compatible but I tested anyway. I was able to play a little bit of Slay the Spire but then the game crashed for some reason.
An alternative that works well for my device is GameNative. You can connect Steam, GOG, Epic Games, etc, and install games on your phone. Slay the Spire, being the example in this comment, works well in GameNative for me.
Yea i use game native as well as i’ve had the best success with it. Droiddeck feels like it popped up overnight while I havent heard of any significant improvements to what was already available.
I was glad to see my phone on the list. If this can POE then I’ll be pretty happy.
