We've been building Dig Too Deep with controllers, Linux, and Steam Deck in mind from the start. There has been a lot of iteration and tuning especially with what controls feel good. When the game launches the Store Page will say "Steam Deck Compatibility: Unknown" because Valve has no pre-release process for getting the green Verified check.

Instead they wait for you to play it. They gather metrics and heuristics and if enough players play it for enough time it gets a yellow 'maybe' check. That puts the game into queue for automated, maybe some manual tests. If those tests go well the green check goes on.

We have run through the checklist they go through ourselves. From our interpretation of the guidelines we're good to go, so we're expecting the Green check once they decide we're worthy of testing. But you never really know with these things. They don't tell us a ton about what they look for or how they test so we've done what we can. If they give us something to fix we'll be on that immediately.

So Steam Deck players, jump in! Refund it if you think it sucks but tell us why on your way out please!