I'm excited to announce that The Last Explorer now works on the Steam Deck!
IMPORTANT:
I made some changes to the default controller button mapping and graphics settings, if you've played the game before and want to play on Steam Deck please go into
Options > Controls > Back to default
Options > Graphics > Back to default
Most important Steam deck related changes:
• Improved performance
• Improved shadows on low end hardware
• Made the game detect when the player is on Steam Deck
• Added graphics preset for Steam Deck
• Much better default controller mapping
• Better menu navigation with controller
Known issue
The studio logo doesn't play properly on the Steam Deck, I am working on a fix asap but meanwhile it shouldn't affect the game in any way (if you find any other issues please let me know!)
Steam Deck graphics preset
The default Steam Deck graphics settings (although perfectly playable in my experience) focus on getting good looking results more than high framerates, this is due to the nature of the game. If you'd like higher framerates, feel free to tweak the graphics settings to your liking!
Full patch notes
version 2.19
• Made the game detect when the player is on Steam Deck
• Added graphics preset for Steam Deck
• Removed display mode setting on Steam Deck
• Removed export photo option on Steam Deck
• Removed pc keyboard bindings on Steam Deck
• Improved performance
• Improved shadows on low end hardware
• Slightly improved fog on low end hardware
• Slightly improved night time
• Improved movement input on controllers
• Fixed controller bug when clicking on social media button
• Fixed bug with the opening logo animation
• Fixed bug with the back button on controllers
version 2.18
• Much better default controller mapping
• Better menu navigation with controller
• Added dead zone setting for joysticks
• Added the auto detected resolution in brackets in the options
• B is now used to go back in menus
• Fixed joystick input being affected by fps
• Fixed incorrectly changing input mode when switching to/from controller
• Fixed bug with time dilation when in freecam mode
• Fixed player drowning while in freecam mode