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Now that the upgraded enhanced releases of DOOM and DOOM II from Nightdive Studios and id Software are available, Valve have given it a fresh test to get it Steam Deck Verified.

Announced back in August, the new edition bundles the two games together with quite a number of upgrades and extras, and make them a lot nicer to play on modern platforms (without going through GZDoom and others). For people who just simply want to click play, it's great.

Previously, they were noted to be Unsupported. This was leftover from when the Steam package was just the original DOOM (Ultimate Doom). It's not clear why it was tagged as Unsupported to begin with though, since many reports showed it working well.

Anyway, now Valve have confirmed it's thankfully click and play on Steam Deck and the bundle is Steam Deck Verified as of September 8th.

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I tried playing these with a controller again (on my Switch). Literally unplayable. It's one thing to use a 6-button Genesis/Mega Drive controller on the 32X version, but I really can't see playing them with a modern controller. Playing on GZDoom and using keyboard and mouse are just so much better to me.


Last edited by Linux_Rocks on 9 September 2024 at 6:34 pm UTC
Quoting: Linux_RocksI tried playing these with a controller again (on my Switch). Literally unplayable.

Steam Deck has touchpads which makes also these types of games a treat. Nevermind adventure games, etc
CGull Sep 9
"Without going through GZDoom and others"? What's so bad about GZDoom? This makes it sound like they are some kind of torture. People who don't know are going to read this and assume they're horrible.

GZDoom has natively supported Linux for ages. Bethesda had to actively AVOID support for Linux in decades-old DOS games which have excellent Linux-native source ports or could run on Linux-native DOSBox. Clearly, the right move for GamingOnLinux is to portray the Linux option as icky in order to promote Windows software.

The same Bethesda which is censoring historic DOOM wads for political parody about Margaret Thatcher.
Liam Dawe Sep 9
Quoting: CGull"Without going through GZDoom and others"? What's so bad about GZDoom? This makes it sound like they are some kind of torture. People who don't know are going to read this and assume they're horrible.
You're reading into that far too much. It's about it being click and play, which on Steam Deck is the most important thing.
pb Sep 9
I played through Doom, Doom2, Master levels, TNT, Plutonia and nerve.wad earlies this year, so it was a really bad timing on their part. :P Might try later to see if my saves from gzdoom are able to trigger the achievements, but for now I'll just play Legacy of Rust in gzdoom as well.
Quoting: CGull"Without going through GZDoom and others"? What's so bad about GZDoom? This makes it sound like they are some kind of torture. People who don't know are going to read this and assume they're horrible.

GZDoom has natively supported Linux for ages. Bethesda had to actively AVOID support for Linux in decades-old DOS games which have excellent Linux-native source ports or could run on Linux-native DOSBox. Clearly, the right move for GamingOnLinux is to portray the Linux option as icky in order to promote Windows software.

The same Bethesda which is censoring historic DOOM wads for political parody about Margaret Thatcher.

Genuinely do you got anything better to do? You’re reading way too much into this. All this is is just them commenting on the default experience becoming as good as the custom experience. We are not at war with Bethesda.
Quoting: Nateman1000We are not at war with Bethesda.
Not as of now, no. But what if next year it turns out we have always been at war with Bethesda?
tfk Sep 9
Ah DOOM. I remember when it came out. My best friend and I got hold of the shareware copy. I believe it came on two 3.5" disks. We created our own sleeve with our custom hand drawn artwork. It became our most priced possession which, of course, we needed to guard with our lives.

So my friend got hold of a toy M16 automatic on a fan fare. He won it at one of the boots. Probably a shooting boot. It was blue with a red light when fired. Not really our thing. So we painted it black.

We also got some army clothes from a dump shop.

Now we could guard our most priced possession even better.

We took turns on who could hold the M16. As we only had one.

Do I still have this sleeve? No. As with most priced possessions, it got lost in time.

The memories remain though.
Caldathras Sep 10
Quoting: tfkAh DOOM. I remember when it came out. My best friend and I got hold of the shareware copy. I believe it came on two 3.5" disks.
Ah, those were the days. The shareware distribution model. I still have the original full version of the game, purchased directly from an iD Software agent in my hometown. The 3.5" disks are blank now ...
WMan22 Sep 10
It was really disheartening to see people heap shit on the deck during the period of time this was unverified because I was playing this new kex port before it was verified, it worked fine, but it was almost becoming a meme to say "It runs on everything EXCEPT steam deck" which was stupid.

The real problem is, I wish we had a way to roll back to the dosbox version in steam's beta branch, because a 1GB download just to get the .wad files I want for a port that actually has freelook unlike this one is a complete waste of internet, luckily I have the GOG version too where this isn't a problem.
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