The gamepad controls, again, feel great, and even the relatively dinky text and prompts are easily readable on the Deck’s native 1280x800p resolution. For a game with no official Steam Deck support, Diablo IV adapts to the hardware brilliantly.

With display brightness and speaker volume both at 50%, I could play for 1h 47m before running dry, and that was with no other power-saving measures in place, like limiting the screen’s refresh rate.įrankly, this is one you’ll want to keep at 60Hz. Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgunĭiablo IV’s battery drain is on the high side, though also decent-ish for a AAA behemoth. It's mainly back at home, on the sofa, bed, or during an extremely risky bath, where you'll be Deck-ing. Unless you intend on leashing your Steam Deck to your phone’s Wi-Fi hotspot, or dragging a Starlink dish around on wheels, this will unfortunately limit when and where you can perform some handheld hellspawn removal. There are pros and cons to each – I prefer the Proton GE method, as Lutris is essentially a launcher of launchers that adds an extra step when starting up games, though I’ll concede that the latter’s installation is generally simpler.īoth approaches will end in Diablo IV becoming fully playable on SteamOS, which leaves just one more concern: its always-online requirement. One involves leaning on Proton GE to make the launcher’s Windows installer behave itself on SteamOS, while the other employs Lutris: an all-in-one compatibility hub that can make your GOG and Humble Bundle libraries playable on the Steam Deck as well. Our guide to installing on the Steam Deck has all the details, but in short, you’ve a choice of two methods. If you can get working, you can get Diablo IV working. As it’s only found on, you can’t just buy and boot Diablo IV on the SteamOS handheld – but there’s also nothing about the game itself that renders it fully incompatible, as is the case with certain stablemates like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and its its Ricochet anti-cheat.

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