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God of War Ragnarök from Santa Monica Studio, Jetpack Interactive and PlayStation Publishing LLC has released on PC today and Valve put it quickly through verification for Steam Deck.

While writing this article it was initially only noted via SteamDB, but checking back before publishing and the status is now live on the Steam page too. So it's fully Steam Deck Verified with Proton 9.0-3 that was also released recently. Once again, Valve and their coders doing some amazing work to get AAA games working at release on Linux platforms like Steam Deck and desktops.

The game does require a PlayStation Network Account, so some regions will be unable to buy or play it. People were worried that the PlayStation Overlay, which is used in Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT and causes the online mode not to work, would be forced here again but it seems that's not the case.

However, this seems due to the developers putting in a hook to detect the Steam Deck, and simply not use the overlay if so. What this means is that for Desktop Linux players, you'll need to add this Steam launch option to pretend it's a Steam Deck to get it work:

SteamDeck=1 %command%

You can add this via right clicking on the game -> properties -> add it into the Launch Options text box.

This appears to come with some mouse issues though, so you'll need a gamepad for now, as mentioned in comments on the Proton GitHub ticket for it. You also might need to link your PlayStation and Steam accounts first to get it to work.

I'll admit, this one snuck-up on me and I forgot it was coming today, so I've not had a chance to take a look. I really hope though, that it runs better than the previous God of War game that had frequent Steam Deck lock-up crashes while also being Steam Deck Verified.

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Cyril Sep 21
The first one is available on GOG, but with that account requirement I doubt Ragnarök will be there. And Sony won't change that, so yeah, sad.
"Requires 3rd-Party Account: PlayStation Network (Supports Linking to Steam Account) "

Hard pass for me.
Termy Sep 21
The PSN-Bullshit would be enough for a boycott, but those degenerates even crippled offline mode. So you will have to be online each time you start the game (apparently at least it won't exit if connection is lost afterwards).

A prime example on how to give piracy a push...
WYW Sep 21
PSN is a hard no
kerossin Sep 22
Quoting: Salvatos
Quoting: kerossin
QuoteThe game does require a PlayStation Network Account, so some regions will be unable to buy or play it.

Genius! They want to stop piracy but they also don't want to sell the game to me. I haven't pirated in years but they're not giving me any other choices.
Funny how many people forget that not playing a game is also an option.

Not writing stupid comments is also an option and you should take it.
Daisuke88 Sep 23
Played it on the PS5 and this game is amazing! Ill definetly be playing it agan on Steam. Questions, witht he launch argument do graphical settings get locked to accomodate the deck?

For example MK1 is locked on medium settings on the deck and you gotta add the SteamDeck=0 %command% arugment to unlock the graphical settings and go above medium.
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