Slay the Spire 2: Steam Deck Wont Load Game (Workarounds)

The problem

Launch the game onnsteam deck and it gets stuck on a black screen. Debug menu shows the game load and can see the fps change for a second but then freezes. Can open up steam menus tho. Anyone got a fix

What players suggest

Could you try using a different Proton version? Tried various different Linux distros and all work. Including a steam machine itself. So most likely something in your proton changed. There was a time where steam cloud could break some proton prefixes. Don’t know if that got fixed

also check your steam power settings (right steam menu while game is open) to ensure you dont have it set on anything that might prevent it from running, such as TDP 1 or something.

couple of guesses try disabling the steam overlay. i'm guessing this probably isnt the issue as hopefully valve actually does QA to confirm their steam overlay works on their own hardware product, but there's a few issues when launching StS2 from various linux distros where the steam overlay crashes during startup and then prevents the game from starting normally how long have you tried waiting…