Dust: An Elysian Tail

Dust On My Steam Deck?

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The Steam Deck has over 5,000+ verified and playable titles at the time of writing this, and for some reason Dust: An Elysian Tail is not one of them! I’ve thrown a few hours into it on my Steam Deck between now and yesterday, and I haven’t had any issues. It looks fine at native resolution – I can read everything on the screen, and it has a native Linux build. My only other guess would be that it came out in 2014, and the developers haven’t looked back at it since. Verified or not, it works and I’ve been having fun slashing my sword in the air and collecting all the Wall Chickens I can eat!

Sunday Summer Evening Open Thread

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We’ve been experiencing a heatwave of sorts for the last couple of days. I’ve been taking my gaming laptop to that magical place called outside. Replaced the Mint partition with Manjaro, configured it to my liking. I have to say I was expecting a minor headache getting the NVidia proprietary drivers to run, but it was extremely painless thanks to instructions at their wiki and a simple duckduckgo search could offer. Then once it was ready enough for my liking I began plugging games into it. Mostly some of the old school Tomb Raiders, and for the hell of it I loaded a Linux native game… that was produced by Microsoft. O_o

I’ve progressed much further into Dust: An Elysian Tail, even managed to get a few achievements! I keep meaning to finish this game, but by the time I pick it up again the saves are far gone. Fortunately this looks like a game the Steam Cloud doesn’t completely screw over. I finished playing on my laptop when things cooled off enough and continued my adventure on my desktop from the exact same point. I love it when things work out like that.