The Finals has finally left its beta and is now on Steam for everyone to play. However, can you play it on the go with the Steam Deck?
There’s a brand new FPS multiplayer game to dig yourself into with The Finals. Finally leaving its extensive beta period, the game is now up for free on Steam.
At the start, there was some rotten news for those on the Steam Deck. The game is running Easy Anti-Cheat, a common issue for many players on Valve’s handheld. We couldn’t even launch the game to see how the performance is without reinstalling Windows.
After a recent update, The Finals now does work on the Steam Deck. It’s a little buggy in places, but you can totally play the game as you would on a Windows PC.
The Finals now works on Steam Deck
There’s a precedent of Easy Anti-Cheat games working on the Steam Deck, however. Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Apex Legends. We’ve even seen some teams shift to a new anti-cheat, just to ensure that players on Steam Deck are included.
Valve’s Proton supports Easy Anti-Cheat, and even other anti-cheat developers have said that it’s on the game studio to push the button. It’s been a running occurrence with Linux since online gaming started.
However, Nexon and developer Embark Studios have flipped the switch and the game now works through Proton Experimental.
The world is ever-shifting however. More and more people are being exposed to Linux each day. As Valve’s handheld is still taking the world by storm, it still only accounts for 2% of the player population on Steam.
It seems like Nexon has heard the small audience’s needs and delivered.