I'll pick this one up eventually. Still need to finish Zero Dawn, which I was playing on my Deck recently while traveling. It's a good game so far and I'm glad to see Sony games making it to PC.
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has officially arrived on Steam, and thankfully it does work on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.
In the Steam release announcement the developers noted "We will continue to make optimizations to improve compatibility on handheld PC gaming devices" so hopefully the experience on Steam Deck will get improvements in that.
Additionally they're working on bringing AMD FSR 3 including Frame Generation in a future update.
So Proton Hotfix likely has some adjustments in it needed for the best experience.
Steam Deck shots provided by one of our Discord moderators, running it on the default settings (click to enlarge):
Good to see another fresh release working thanks to Proton!
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I'm considering Forbidden West a let down of a sequel. Zero Dawn is one of my all time favourite games, and I couldn't bring myself to finish Forbidden West. They removed the whistling so stealth attacks are almost impossible. The equipment got unnecessarily complicated. Every enemy has been given a range attack so distance fighting is also impossible. The stupid chess game, because everything has to have its own Gwent now. Some of these issues might be fixable with mods on PC.
Good to see another fresh release working thanks to Proton! Early areas at least seem to give around 30FPS, but as we know from games this big, later areas may bring performance down just like the first game that can cause some issues.
Well, that sounds encouraging!
Will probably pick this up eventually, hopefully after some optimization
I don't know anything about the second one (on purpose, because I don't want to spoil the experience), but I hope they explore the main antagonist more. Since we already have setup for the world, that should allow them to really build on that narrative.