Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Checking out When The Light Dies, a lovecraftian vampire survival-like / bullet heaven game with survival elements.
Developed by and originally released in 2024.

store.steampowered.com/app/2185990/When_the_Light_Dies

Playable on Deck, but performance is disappointing for a 2D game. When using default settings with shadows on FPS drops to 40's with very high power draw. With shadows disabled FPS increases to 60+ . I ended up limiting FPS to 40 to save on battery.

00:00 Intro
00:44 Settings
01:04 Gameplay - Tutorial (LCD)
04:12 Gameplay (OLED)
09:03 No Shadows
10:57 40 FPS Lock (For Battery Saving)

Playing on a 512GB LCD & 1TB OLED Steam Deck
Proton 11.0 (Beta)
SteamOS 3.8.14