Cute casual sandbox room designer MakeRoom makes lots of Steam Deck improvements

From developer Kenney (who makes lots of assets for game developers), MakeRoom is a cute sandbox building game all about building rooms to look sweet. Released back in August, it's gone onto receiving a Very Positive overall rating from users on Steam.

Currently, it has a Steam Deck Playable rating but Kenney has made a whole bunch of changes as they hope to get it bumped up to Verified.

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Writing in a Steam announcement the developer said: "Many changes have been made to improve compatibility with Steam Deck. Controller icons are more accurate, the interface is bigger (by default) and text has been adjusted. It's currently being tested by Steam and hopefully the game will reach Steam Deck Verified status soon!".

All the changes:

New features

• Added 10 new Steam Achievements

• Overhauled the tutorial (now teaches selection, rotation, room resizing & more)

Changes & improvements

• Added 5 new sample objects (made by Silthulhu)

• Added loading screen when preparing Steam Workshop items

• Steam Workshop items are no longer reloaded when returning to the title screen

• Added new animation and sound when downloading or uploading to Steam Workshop

• Steam Workshop uploads now include a list of custom objects used

• Adjusted the maximum scale from 2× to 3×

• Increased interface size on Steam Deck; removed option to shrink

• Adjusted custom mode interface to prevent overlapping elements

• Changed the colors of the offset arrows to match the gizmo in custom mode

• Added dividers to toolbar menus

• Improved toolbar icons

• Added tooltips to toolbar menu

• Improved the round bathtub object

Fixes

• Added boundaries for scaling objects via hotkeys

• Fixed issue with tracking completed requests

• Correct input glyphs now display on Steam Deck

• Fixed input glyph sizing on Steam Deck

• Fixed settings not applying in custom mode

New items

• 4× Flat roof window (Construction)

• Tea pot (Food)

• Tea kettle (Food)

• Chimney top (Fireplaces)

• Chimney top narrow (Fireplaces)

• Moon shape (Shapes, custom mode)

• Moustache shape (Shapes, custom mode)

• Crystal (Accessories)

• Crystal quartz (Accessories)

• Crystal salt (Lamps)

• Guitar acoustic (Accessories)

• Guitar electric (Accessories)