Larian Studios’Baldur’s Gate 3is shaping up to be quite a fantastic game. This Dungeons & Dragons video game RPG will take you on a wild story with hundreds of choice-based decision making. The Early Access version has been available for quite some time, but now with its full release,Baldur’s Gate 3is quite a large game. So the real question is if you can playBaldur’s Gate 3on your Steam Deck, which we’ll answer for you below.
IsBaldur’s Gate 3compatible with Steam Deck?
According to Valve’s verifying system, the answer toif you can playBaldur’s Gate 3on your Steam Deck is yes, as it’s ‘Playable’.And luckily,Larian Studios aims to haveBaldur’s Gate 3as ‘Verified’ once it leaves Early Accesson August 3. What does this all mean exactly? Well, Valve has four different levels of verification for Steam games on the Steam Deck. WhileBaldur’s Gate 3in Early Access is considered ‘Playable’, by launch it’ll be fully ‘Verified’.
At the second tier, Valve hasn’t full fully optimized the game for the Steam Deck, but it’s still okay to play. ‘Playable’ means you’ll probably have to tweak with the settings to make it run to your liking. This could be button remapping, resolution switching, and more.
The two other levels are ‘Unsupported’, then ‘Unknown’. If it were ‘Unsupported’, that just means Valve doesn’t recommend you play it, but it still should be fine. ‘Unknown’ simply means they haven’t checked over that game yet.
In aCommunity Updateposted on July 31, Larian Studios explained thatBaldur’s Gate 3looks rad on the Steam Deck. If you’re reading this past August 3, it probably already Verified the game, and you should be good to go. It’ll even work on the most optimal settings, so you don’t have to worry about the Steam Deck struggling to run it. The post also stated thatthere is full controller support, and split screen will turn off, if you want to play this co-op.
Baldur’s Gate 3is available onSteam.
Anyka Pettigrew
Anyka Pettigrew has been a Staff Writer for PC Invasion since November 2023 and a Contributing Writer since February 2023. She is a Canadian graduate of a Bachelor of Arts degree who has been writing in games journalism for four years. Anyka is an avid guides writer but also enjoys writing anything from news pieces, to reviews, and even opinion pieces. Having a never-ending passion for video games for as long as she can remember got her into a plethora of genres like action adventure, RPGs, horror, survival etc. Some of her favorite franchises are God of War, Persona, The Last of Us, Zelda, and Resident Evil. She also enjoys reading fantasy and sci-fi books, as well as drawing digital art. Anyka also regularly listens to podcasts on gaming news from ‘Kinda Funny Games’, and ‘Play, Watch, Listen’.
