Steam Decks may be the best way to play Disney Dreamlight Valley

A woman in a straw hat waters a gourd with the help of a Wall-E robot.

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The recently released multi-platform game of life, Dreamlight Valleya bit animal crossingSlightly Stardew Valleyand the And lots of Disney. It’s also the type of game you can play while watching TV shows or multitasking on your portable console. But even with the Switch, this version isn’t great. Fortunately, Dreamlight Valley With some tweaks it works great with Steam Deck. Be prepared to charge your Steam deck before playing.

Never mind what Steam says.

Steam listings offline Dreamlight ValleyCompatibility with Steam Deck is “unknown”, which is not surprising. What this means is that this game has not yet been reviewed by Valve for compatibility. The lack of question marks and verified check marks might scare you, but don’t worry.following playing Dreamlight Valley After a few hours of testing on my beautiful Valve laptop, I found the experience to be on par with most other playable and verified games.

However, you may need to change your library filter to actually find and install them. Just change the filter with the X button and toggle it to show all games. Even if they are unknown and unsupported.then you should be able to see Dreamlight ValleyAssuming you own it.

With just a few tweaks, this is a great way to play

Dreamlight Valley Steam Deck is a great experience right out of the box, but with a few tweaks you can greatly improve the way you play. Before the change, the game runs at 60 frames per second. It’s definitely playable, but might be improved.

First, change the resolution to 1280×720 (Dreamlight doesn’t support the Deck’s native 1280×800). Leave it at 60Hz and reduce all the graphical settings to medium. Don’t mess with the Display Mode setting, as when I did this it locked up the game on the Steam Deck every time. But, with these settings, you’ll notice a nice improvement in framerate stability. You can drop the texture quality from default to low, too, as the Deck’s small screen does a good job of hiding the drop in quality. But in my time with the game, it wasn’t a necessary tweak.

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Once you get Dreamlight Valley It works well with the Steam Deck and you can even use the touch screen to easily move items around in your inventory and chests. If you’re like me and like to reorganize these spaces often, playing on Steam Deck is a lot better than using console on console. By comparison, managing game inventory on a gamepad is time consuming and confusing.

If you want to log in, check out the store, mine and grow more crops, the Steam Deck is for you.Lately I’ve been playing for an hour every night Dreamlight Valley while watching task manager Or a random YouTube video.

Fully charge Steam first

When I tested a battery draining game on Steam Deck, Dreamlight Valley Not the worst offenders. But it drains the deck faster than I expected.All Disney magic doesn’t come for free, right?

Using the previously shared settings and without tweaking the system’s battery settings, a fully charged Steam deck can play for 2½ to 3 hours depending on what you’re doing in the game. Of course, changing settings can affect battery life, but don’t expect more than three hours.

In short, with some tweaks, Dreamlight Valley great deck. In fact, this may be the best way to play this new game. Especially if you like to multitask or just hang out in the garden when you play. Charge the deck first.

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