Where Winds Meet devs plan improved Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe - 27 Nov 2025 at 4:21 pm UTC

Last updated: 27 Nov 2025 at 6:29 pm UTC

Where Winds Meet continues to be a big hit on Steam and it works quite well on Desktop Linux but it needs a lot of improvements on Valve's Steam Deck.

On Steam Deck even with various settings dropped down and upscaling, the performance in various parts is just not playable with drops down to 20FPS and at times below. Thankfully, for any fans of this free to play RPG, there's plans from the developer Everstone Studio to get things into better shape.

Writing in an update post on Steam dated November 23rd, the developer said:

Over the next two months, we will gradually roll out several updates, including Steam Deck compatibility, optimized multi-timezone display, split outfit customization, PS5 Pro support for PSSR, enhanced audio experience, and more. Our goal is to create a Jianghu that everyone can enjoy, and we welcome any further suggestions you may have.

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Hopefully we won't be waiting too long on that. And, hopefully they actually get it to perform to a reasonable level. Optimising for the lower-end helps players across all hardware! Oh, and if they could actually make the settings available before forcing you into the game that would be good too. That's a sin some developers still haven't stopped.

Currently, the game is rated Steam Deck Unsupported by Valve. No anti-cheat annoyances though, you can jump in just fine - we're tracking various games on our dedicated Linux / SteamOS anti-cheat page.

Where Winds Meet | Release Date: 14th November 2025

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Tags: Proton, Steam Deck, Free Game, Online Multiplayer, RPG, SteamOS | Apps: Where Winds Meet

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scaine 3 hours ago

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Playing opening scenes such as movies/cut-scenes/intros before being given the option to change settings is infuriating. And no, this doesn't mean I want launchers! Just give us an opening screen offering those options: graphics settings and audio settings, but also subtitles.

Good grief, subtitles. I've lost count of how many opening scenes I've had ruined by having subtitles on. Talk about an immersion breaker. I suppose that's less sinful than not having them and needing them... but just give us the option!!

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Nezchan 3 hours ago

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"AI" infested game, uses chatbots for NPC dialogue and other AI for character generation. Some reports of generated character voices.

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msmafra 2 hours ago

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It's a beautiful game. The combat is very good. Have a sizeable number of options, overwhelming at times, but there is no lack of options.

Unfortunatelly have a lot of bugs with their audio dialogues: stopping out of nowhere, voice quality changing out of nowhere, voice volume changing out of nowhere. And the main unforgivable problem in 2025 for my Brazilian countrymen: not having at least subtitles/text translation for Brazilian Portuguese.

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Purple Library Guy 1 hour ago

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This kind of thing makes me wonder how the rating stuff is going to work once the Steam Machine is out. Because right now, the Deck rating system doesn't differentiate between games that don't work well with the form factor or power level of the Deck on one hand, and games that don't work well with SteamOS on the other. But with the Steam Machine, there's going to be a difference--there could be games that work fine with SteamOS, and on the Steam Machine, but not so much on the Deck; like this could be one of them. At the rate things are going, there could in the end be multiple kinds of device running games on SteamOS. It's going to be really worth while to rate a game's friendliness to SteamOS per se separately from how it plays with the Deck as hardware.

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CatKiller 1 hour ago

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's going to be really worth while to rate a game's friendliness to SteamOS per se separately from how it plays with the Deck as hardware.

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Valve have already done that:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valve-announce-steamos-compatibility-ratings-an-extension-of-steam-deck-verified-for-more-devices/

They've also said that "Steam Machine Verified" and "Steam Frame Verified" ratings will show on those respective devices.

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Purple Library Guy 1 hour ago

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Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's going to be really worth while to rate a game's friendliness to SteamOS per se separately from how it plays with the Deck as hardware.
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Valve have already done that:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valve-announce-steamos-compatibility-ratings-an-extension-of-steam-deck-verified-for-more-devices/

They've also said that "Steam Machine Verified" and "Steam Frame Verified" ratings will show on those respective devices.

Ah, thanks!

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GustyGhost 37 minutes ago

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This one has been tempting but my experience tells me to stay away from F2P.

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Szkodnix 19 minutes ago

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I already play Duet Night Abyss from the recent not-gacha-anymore games, but this one is indeed very promising.

I love the new wave of games from China that finally have a fair free2play model with only cosmetics being behind gacha mechanics.

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