That's it! Vintage Story should be in your Non-Steam category in your Steam library now. Logout or click Return to Gaming Mode from the desktop. Refer to its instructions on how to use it, you'll need to generate a SteamGridDB API key. (Optional) You can use SteamGrid utility to download and set a matching library thumbnail from SteamGridDB for the game.If it's not on the list, click Browse and navigate to /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications and open at. Vintage Story item should be on the list, select it.Steam Desktop UI dialog window should show up. From the Games category, right click (press left touchpad) Vintage Story entry and select Add to Steam. After a few moments, it should be complete.Ĭlick the Start Menu. Press the Install button to download and install it. Type Vintage Story, press RT to Enter, then press B to hide the keyboard.įrom the list on the right, choose Vintage Story item. From the System category, click Discover application.Ĭlick the search box in top left, and press STEAM + X to pull up the virtual keyboard. Alternatively you can use the touch screen.Ĭlick the Start Menu.

Use the right touchpad to move the mouse, and press it to left click. Press STEAM button, choose Power then choose Switch to Desktop. However, this is the most simple and most convenient way to get Vintage Story running on Steam Deck. There are some caveats with this flatpak method, I'll explain them later.

The whole process should take no more than a few minutes.

Thanks to the Linux Flatpak package available for Vintage Story, installation and updating the game is very easy. My apologies for poor quality, it's a 1080p webcam but struggling to focus from up close. I thought if you come here from the search engine, I'll show you how to install and use it on this particular form factor and share my experiences. Just to be clear, I don't really intend to advertise anything here. Vintage Story is not on Steam, but it is a Linux game and it works nicely on Steam Deck as a non-steam game. I received mine a while ago, and of course being a fan of the game I installed Vintage Story on it. Video game company Valve recently came up with an affordable PC Linux handheld device called Steam Deck. In this thread I explain how to install, configure, play, mod and update Vintage Story on Steam Deck.

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