Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is a superb and daring reinvention of the sequence as a side-scrolling metroidvania. Video games within the metroidvania style, and side-scrollers basically, really feel proper at dwelling on handheld units like Nintendo Change and Steam Deck. For Steam Deck customers, nonetheless, getting The Misplaced Crown up and operating is not so simple as downloading and launching it. The new recreation is not accessible on Steam presently, which suggests it’s a must to take a number of additional steps to play it.
No matter whether or not you purchase Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown immediately from Ubisoft or on the Epic Video games Retailer, it is potential to play it on Steam Deck. After enjoying it for greater than a dozen hours on Deck, we will verify it runs wonderfully–so it is positively value organising. If you happen to want a duplicate of Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown, try our preorder information. You can even play The Misplaced Crown (proper now) by way of Ubisoft+.
Easiest technique: Epic Video games Retailer + Heroic Video games Launcher
The most simple technique for enjoying Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown on Steam Deck includes buying your copy by the Epic Video games Retailer and putting in the Heroic Video games Launcher. This open-source Linux app is a one-stop store for Epic, GOG, and Prime Gaming launchers, which suggests it is tremendous simple to put in and add to Steam.
Here is methods to do it. We advocate utilizing a correct keyboard and mouse for these steps. If you do not have a Steam Deck dock or USB-C hub, you’ll be able to pair Bluetooth peripherals together with your Steam Deck.
- Enter Desktop Mode in your Steam Deck: Maintain the ability button till the pop-up menu seems and select “Change to Desktop.”
- Open the Uncover app, which is represented as a purchasing bag on the taskbar.
- Within the search bar, kind: Heroic Video games Launcher. Set up the applying.
- As soon as put in, launch the app and log in to your Epic Video games Retailer account.
- Your recreation library will populate, permitting you to buy/set up Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown.
You’ll be able to cease right here and begin enjoying, however if you would like to have the ability to play The Misplaced Crown within the Steam Deck’s default Gaming Mode, it’s essential to do a pair extra issues.
- To add the Heroic Video games Launcher to your Steam library, open Steam in Desktop Mode and click on “Add a Sport” within the decrease left-hand nook.
- Select “Add a Non-Steam Sport.”
- A preconfigured record of functions will populate. Discover the Heroic Video games Launcher and click on the checkbox. Then click on “Add Chosen Packages.”
- The Heroic Video games Launcher can now be launched in Gaming Mode. You will discover it within the “Non-Steam” part
- If you wish to take it one step additional and add the sport itself to your Steam library, as soon as once more click on “Add a Sport” after which “Add a Non-Steam Sport”
- This time you will need to click on “Browse.”
- Navigate to /dwelling/deck/Sport/Heroic
- In that folder, you will discover an exe for Prince of Persia. Double click on it after which select “Add Chosen Packages.”
- In Steam, discover the Prince of Persia exe and click on the settings icon, then select “Properties.”
- You will in all probability need to rename the shortcut.
- This final step is essential: Whereas in “Properties” select “Compatibility” and verify the field to power Steam to make the most of a Proton compatibility software. Select “Proton Experimental” from the dropdown.
- Congratulations, now you can launch Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown like all of your native Steam video games in Gaming Mode.
- You should use Decky Loader to put in SteamDB so as to add paintings to your recreation tile.
- If you happen to do not need to use the Heroic Video games Launcher, you’ll be able to add the common Epic Video games Launcher to Steam Deck.
Including Ubisoft Connect with Steam Deck
It is also potential to play Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown by way of Ubisoft Join, Ubisoft’s launcher, on Steam Deck. Nevertheless, it must be famous that this technique is a little more difficult. Even if you happen to purchase The Misplaced Crown from Ubisoft Join, we might nonetheless advocate utilizing the Epic Video games Launcher or GOG Galaxy. You’ll be able to hyperlink your Ubisoft Join account to GOG and/or Epic and launch your video games by these apps.
But when for some cause you are set on utilizing Ubisoft Join, this is methods to set it up:
- In Desktop Mode, go to ubisoftconnect.com and obtain the launcher
- Do not run the installer.
- Open Steam. Click on “Add a Sport” within the decrease left-hand nook and select “Add a Non-Steam Sport.”
- Click on “Browse” and navigate to the installer exe in your downloads folder.
- Click on “Add Chosen Packages.”
- Again in your Steam library, seek for the Ubisoft Join installer, click on the settings gear and select “Properties.”
- You’ll be able to change the identify to Ubisoft Join (by way of shortcut textual content field) after which click on “Compatibility” within the facet pane. Click on the checkbox to power Steam to make use of a compatibility software and select “Proton Experimental.”
- Then click on “Play” and the set up course of will begin.
- Uncheck “Run Ubisoft Join” on the finish of the set up course of.
- With Ubisoft Join put in, you now have to get the precise launcher in your Steam library. In any other case, if you run it, you will simply run the set up course of once more.
- To add the precise launcher, we will return to “Properties.”
- Within the shortcut window, click on “Browse” subsequent to the “Goal” field.
- Now you are going to discover the placement the place our Steam Deck has created an imitation of the Home windows file listing.
- It is advisable to ensure hidden information are seen in your Steam Deck. To do that, both use the keyboard shortcut ctrl + h or click on the icon of three horizontal traces (subsequent to the magnifying glas) within the prime right-hand nook of the folder. Ensure that the checkbox “Present Hidden Information” is checked.
- With that squared away, this is the trail you will need to comply with to set the right “Goal”:
- dwelling > .native > share > Steam > steamapps > compatdata > most up-to-date folder # > pfx > drive c > programfiles86 > Ubisoft > Ubisoft Sport Launcher > UbisoftConnect.exe
- “Most up-to-date folder #” might be a string of roughly 10 numbers. It will not be the identical for everybody, however it must be simple as the most recent folder on this listing.
- Add citation marks at begin and end of the trail. Copy and paste the trail within the textual content field for “Begin In” as effectively.
- Now you’ll be able to launch Ubisoft Join and set up the sport.
- If you wish to immediately launch the sport from Gaming Mode with out first opening and shopping Ubisoft Join, you’ll be able to as soon as once more “Add a Non-Steam Sport” to the launcher.
- While you click on “Browse,” it ought to open in the identical sub-folder as earlier than.
- Navigate to /video games/Prince of Persia The Misplaced Crown/TheLostCrown.exe. Change compatibility to “Proton Experimental” and rename the shortcut to your liking.
- Ensure that “Goal” and “Begin In” containers match, and place the trail inside citation marks.
- Lastly, we have to add a command to the textual content field for “Launch Choices,” which is situated beneath “Begin In.” The following command tells Steam to launch Ubisoft Join and Prince of Persia.
- STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=”dwelling/deck/.native/share/Steam/steamapps/compdata/most up-to-date folder #” %command%
- Substitute “most up-to-date folder #” with the string of numbers that corresponds to your Ubisoft Join folder–it’s the identical string present in your file path for “Goal.”
- If you happen to obtain an error stating the launcher cannot be situated when launching The Misplaced Crown, you’ll be able to copy/paste the launcher inside /Ubisoft Sport Launcher/video games/Prince of Persia The Misplaced Crown/GameLauncher. This file is named UbisoftGameLauncher.exe and could be discovered within the Ubisoft Sport Launcher folder.
- You should use Decky Loader to put in SteamDB so as to add paintings to your recreation tile.
Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown runs nice on Steam Deck by default, so when you get the whole lot arrange, try to be all set.