Approaching the middle of 2026, I thought it might be interesting to check in with a handful of developers building software for the Steam Deck scene to see how things have gone, are going and might be for the future!
Most of these are good friends of mine, but there is one new face here as well. I asked them a few questions each about what the state of Steam Deck software looks like today.
- RetroDECK
- Decky Loader
- Junk Store
- Lutris
- Heroic Games Launcher
- Unifideck
^ all the projects I checked in with! So if you’re curious, this one isn’t exactly hard-hitting journalist, it is a nice light check-in with friends as to how the Steam Deck world is for them now!
Hope you enjoy it!
Please keep publishing these posts as I ain’t checking the site enough and wouldn’t want to miss some of your interviews.
And people please support their Patreon!
Very much appreciated and actually the kind if open-source news I’d like to see more of.
Many smaller projects like these often don’t have much of a visible online presence, so it’s nice hearing from the actual devs about the state of the project beyond what’s written into changelogs.
Thank you! I’m glad there is this strong core group of projects and devs who both support and love the Steam Deck, so long after release!
If you’re curious to hear more from the teams, I’ve interviewed all except Unifideck (some many times!) over the last few years. You can find those by filtering with my author link on the site, or with this tag:
I wonder what people’s opinions are on the kernel drivers apparently still not being in mainline. That appears to severely limit the availability of other Linux variants. Personally, that’s one of the ecosystem problems that bothers me the most.
