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The Steam Deck's multitouch screen might be its most underutilised feature. Until recently, I wasn't even sure whether devs could use it for anything more than simple mouse emulation. But I've just started playing "Sky: Children of the Light" on my Deck (which is generally a great experience on Deck, especially on the OLED with 90Hz HDR) and I found that when using a musical instrument, you can actually use the touchscreen to play up to 10 notes at the same time.

This got me curious: Do you know if there are any other games on Deck using multitouch, or is Sky the first one that does it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Weirdly any game that is cross platform with mobile will probably be years ahead of pc or console games.

Farlight 84 I haven’t played on the steam deck yet but I would assume that would have support for the full touchscreen claw interface customization screen. That kind of play style is very competitive and capable of twitch sun shots but it absolutely wouldn’t work without solid multitouch support as a foundation in the UI.