

I've talked a little about using the Steam Deck's touchscreen for gaming. Considering the tooltips alone were hogging the majority of the screen at the Steam Deck's native resolution it didn't make sense to try and scale up any further.Īll in all, this is one of those games that's really not worth the stress of playing on Steam Deck, which makes me very sad. It can be a little awkward anyway, and causes some strange positioning of popups that blocks you from clicking through.
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Of course, there is a mod to scale up the UI in Cities: Skylines, but I dared not try it. The UI buttons are so small it was impossible to land an accurate tap anywhere, and that wasn't helped by the fact that the cursor was about three pixels off on the Steam Deck screen, compared to its position on my PC. I am not one of these gifted few, so I gave the touch screen a go.Īs you can see, it didn't go very well. That's because some people-incredible people-were born with the ability to play Cities with a controller. As long as you have the hardware for it, there are a few nice control schemes on the community hub to choose from.
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Of course, it means you'll need your PC to be on, and logged into Steam for it to work (along with having a stable internet connection with good bandwidth). That being said, Steam does have a remote play feature which does work, but with some major caveats. Well, there go my dreams of carrying out my mayoral duties as I traverse the real-world transport network. That's according to one Reddit user's correspondence with one of the game's devs, AndrewT, and is down to the game being "Nearer the end of its life cycle than the beginning." I had figured that, since Colossal Order just came out with a new DLC for the game, it would be just a matter of waiting on support for Cities: Skylines on Steam Deck, but it turns out Paradox has no plans to get it working officially. Some people-incredible people-were born with the ability to play Cities with a controller. And as much as I love a good menu system, and configurable controls, it appears there's just no support for the actual game.

It just continued to crash back to Steam. There I managed to figure out some controls that were more conducive to the platform and was finally able to change the graphics settings. Luckily, and this is going to be a theme throughout the rest of this post, I was able to mash the Steam button and navigate to the controller layout menu. First it crashed back to the Steam client while trying to load up a new city, so I tried turning the graphics down, but the dropdown menus were totally unresponsive. In fact it's one of my favourite games of all time, so you better believe I was ready to try it out on the Steam Deck.īut before I even got into testing the controls and whatnot, the major problems began with the city loading screen. Cities: Skylines is one of my favourite city building games.
