If you are a fan of strategy and hellscapes, you will love this game. Solium Infernum has you take control of a legion of hell as you fight for the twisted throne. It is a strategy game so be prepared to pour hours of thought and planning into this game. What is even better is that you can play as you go since this game does work on the Steam Deck and other handhelds. While there are a few issues, the game is mostly playable, and a lot of people appreciate the developers for this.
Steam Deck and other handhelds often get left behind in the wave of PC gaming. Since most games will run and feel better on PC, the handhelds are left with a smaller selection of games that are verified to work on them or accept them and their input methods. The Steam Deck has an additional issue where it runs Linux so it needs to overcome the OS barrier as well. Despite this, Solium Infernum seems to run well on these handheld PCs.
Solium Infernum Steam Deck, Asus Rog Ally & Lenovo Legion Go Support Details
The first step towards successful support is making sure the game is playable on various platforms. That has been done by the developers. Although the game has been reported to be playable on the Steam Deck, there are UI scaling issues. In response to a player query on a Steam Discussion post, a developer pointed out that they plan on releasing updates for the game that will eventually fix the UI scaling. Another developer responded to a player query regarding the game’s Steam Deck support with the following:
It should run perfectly fine on your Steam Deck! Though we aren’t stating full compatability or officially supporting Steam Deck, as being a text heavy grand strategy game, the font size and interface isn’t ideal for Steam Deck.
But yeah, if that doesn’t bother you, you shouldn’t have any issues performance wise.
Let us know how you go if you do play!
How does it run on handhelds?
According to a lot of users, both on Reddit and ProtonDB, the game runs pretty well on the Steam Deck, considering that it is not a Deck Verified title. And when it comes to the Asus Rog Ally or Lenovo Legion Go, you will have no issues running the game on either of these platforms.
However, there are some major issues that handheld PC players have to deal with. The first and foremost is the UI scaling. Since this was not built for small-screen handhelds, the UI can often be too small to reliably read in-game. Even though a UI slider exists in-game, players have reported that it doesn’t work as intended. It essentially makes the UI bigger and easier to read if needed. Luckily, the developers are aware of the UI scaling inconsistencies in-game and have disabled this setting temporarily while working on a patch. In addition to this, smaller issues like artifacting (screen flickering when moved) are also noted. These too will be sorted with time since the developers possibly intend to make this game work on the Deck and other handhelds.
Anyway, now you know all about the support details of Solium Infernium on the Steam Deck, Asus Rog Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go. Well, if you found this article useful and would like to read more such content, make sure to visit Android Gram daily.
