{"id":1562007,"date":"2026-04-24T20:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/GQqTexUKNyr3Ti8WNDFoVP"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:07:59","slug":"after-over-3-years-of-running-like-dogwater-on-steam-deck-one-of-my-favorite-rpgs-has-finally-earned-its-verified-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-over-3-years-of-running-like-dogwater-on-steam-deck-one-of-my-favorite-rpgs-has-finally-earned-its-verified-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"After over 3 years of running like dogwater on Steam Deck, one of my favorite RPGs has finally earned its Verified badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I have to issue a mea culpa: Almost exactly three years ago, I reported on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/my-favorite-elder-scrolls-like-rpg-ran-bafflingly-badly-on-steam-deck-but-a-small-surprising-tweak-has-doubled-its-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\">performance improvement update<\/a> for the excellent indie RPG Dread Delusion. The performance was improved, but it was not improved enough. After my initial excitement, I found the game&#8217;s inconsistent framerates unbearably brutal, and I exclusively played on desktop.<\/p>\n<p>But not anymore. Dread Delusion finally, for realsies, my hand to god, actually runs great on Steam Deck now: A rock solid 60 fps in my experience, at both the start of the game and a save dozens of hours in. It also boasts some blessedly gentle battery usage: Over four hours estimated playtime, with a tick rate on the percentage to back that up.<\/p>\n<p>The new update largely brings over fixes and improvements from the recent console release of Dread Delusion, and I&#8217;m guessing that its Switch 2 port in particular is to thank for the game&#8217;s night and day Steam Deck experience. As much as I am a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/i-loved-the-nintendo-switch-but-the-switch-2-looks-like-every-other-console-now-a-worse-pc-with-a-few-exclusive-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">pathetic little seething hater<\/a> of Nintendo&#8217;s wildly successful new portable, I would like to extend my gratitude nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, when I began a new playthrough of this first person, mini open world RPG, I fired Dread Delusion up on Steam Deck to get a consistent 25 fps in the starting area, despite developer Lovely Hellplace&#8217;s early optimizations, and no amount of fiddling with settings resulted in anything I found pleasant enough to supplant the desktop experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NWNiyN47Nlc\" target=\"_blank\">Factor of Games&#8217; May 2023 performance showcase<\/a> is fairly illustrative, as is this <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/1574240\/discussions\/0\/591775577045792230\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam forum thread<\/a> from last year about DD&#8217;s Deck performance.<\/p>\n<p>In my limited playtime after Dread Delusion&#8217;s April 15 patch, I have yet to encounter frame rate dips outside a slight hang when loading a new area or autosaving\u2060\u2014it feels like I could set my watch to this game&#8217;s frame rate on Steam Deck. I never finished the replay I started last year, but now I see a route to the end credits unchained from my desk.<\/p>\n<p>Developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/my-inner-morrowind-sicko-is-howling-over-the-new-game-from-the-dread-delusion-devs-a-turn-based-rpg-where-you-play-a-theatre-troupe-fighting-demons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lovely Hellplace is currently working on a follow-up game<\/a>, and it looks sick: Entropy, a more JRPG-style experience that builds on Dread Delusion&#8217;s distinctive art style and presentation. If you&#8217;re wondering why you should play Dread Delusion, it has some of my favorite RPG quests ever, including &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/an-obscure-rpgs-moral-dilemma-about-the-ethical-human-meat-alternative-propping-up-a-zombie-society-is-one-of-the-best-side-quests-ive-ever-played-and-steam-achievements-show-only-13-percent-of-its-players-have-even-seen-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ethics of Eating Flesh<\/a>,&#8221; a twisty moral dilemma over the human meat substitute sustaining a society of sentient zombies that feels like a sci-fi short story from the 1970s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"85103740-d01d-4f40-9661-f9799c4ee908\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/after-over-3-years-of-running-like-dogwater-on-steam-deck-one-of-my-favorite-rpgs-has-finally-earned-its-verified-badge.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"85103740-d01d-4f40-9661-f9799c4ee908\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/after-over-3-years-of-running-like-dogwater-on-steam-deck-one-of-my-favorite-rpgs-has-finally-earned-its-verified-badge\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to issue a mea culpa: Almost exactly three years ago, I reported on a performance improvement update for the excellent indie RPG Dread Delusion. The performance was improved, but it was not improved enough. After my initial excitement, I found the game&#8217;s inconsistent framerates unbearably brutal, and I exclusively played on desktop. But not anymore. Dread Delusion finally, for realsies, my hand to god, actually runs great on Steam Deck now: A rock solid 60 fps in my experience, at both the start of the game and a save dozens of hours in. It also boasts some blessedly gentle battery usage: Over four hours estimated playtime, with a tick rate on the percentage to back that up. The new update largely brings over&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-over-3-years-of-running-like-dogwater-on-steam-deck-one-of-my-favorite-rpgs-has-finally-earned-its-verified-badge\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1562007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After over 3 years of running like dogwater on Steam Deck, one of my favorite RPGs has finally earned its Verified badge | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have to 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