News ► Kingdom Hearts is headed to Steam in June 2024

[MATGSY]

I definitely think the major headline here is KH1 and KH2 on Steam Deck. Truly portable wifi-free KH1 and KH2 for the first time, ever. Doing the Hades Cup and end game shit on portable sounds so cozy...

Well, PS2 emulation is a thing. Steam Deck was already capable of playing those games in a fashion. For that matter, Days & RECoded are fully playable as well.

On the other hand, I'm not sure KH3 will be a worthwhile experience on the deck. I'm not confident performance will be up to par, especially in areas like Port Royal in the Caribbean. That, and, for me, KH3's biggest draw in the year 2024 is running the postgame bosses, which are still very difficult even though I'm amazing... I have a hard time playing super well on handheld systems, the super-quick reactions are a lot easier for me if I'm holding a traditional controller, so I wouldn't want to feel held back by that control scheme.

If anything, the built in controls on a handheld should have less input delay than a wireless controller that hast to send a signal to the console. I find MoM easier to play on portable Switch than docked. Steam Deck will probably run KH3 at least as well as PS4 did.

 

[Launchpad]

Well, PS2 emulation is a thing. Steam Deck was already capable of playing those games in a fashion. For that matter, Days & RECoded are fully playable as well.

Yeah, but fully supported modern ports with 60fps and all the bells and whistles is a totally different experience. PS2 KH1 on Steam Deck doesn't hit the same when Riku!Ansem has killed you and the 2 minute cutscene is killing your battery life

 

[Max]

I definitely think the major headline here is KH1 and KH2 on Steam Deck. Truly portable wifi-free KH1 and KH2 for the first time, ever. Doing the Hades Cup and end game shit on portable sounds so cozy...

On the other hand, I'm not sure KH3 will be a worthwhile experience on the deck. I'm not confident performance will be up to par, especially in areas like Port Royal in the Caribbean. That, and, for me, KH3's biggest draw in the year 2024 is running the postgame bosses, which are still very difficult even though I'm amazing... I have a hard time playing super well on handheld systems, the super-quick reactions are a lot easier for me if I'm holding a traditional controller, so I wouldn't want to feel held back by that control scheme.

Luckily though the Deck has the option of being docked just like the Switch, so if there was specific content someone would rather do on a big screen with a controller that's totally an option. I know not everyone cares to buy a dock, but I think most people that prefer certain games handheld and certain games on TV would shell out for a dock anyway. I do understand what you're saying though, but I just think it's cool that there's even a solution for that.

That said, pretty much exactly what you said just before that is what I'm truly excited about, and that's KH1 and KH2 on Deck. I was so disappointed when the Switch versions were cloud only and I didn't bother buying them. And while emulation is an option, I would rather have the HD Final Mix versions of course, who wouldn't? You hit the nail on the head with that one. I know Epic had been an option, but I've just held out because while I know you can get epic games to work on Deck with some workarounds and finagling, I was okay with the wait that hopefully exactly this would happen, and it has!

The 1.5+2.5 collection will be day 1 for me most likely, and I can't wait to immediately hop into KH1 on Deck. Might even try out some fancy mods like different FOV cameras, we'll see

 

[Ashton69]

I definitely think the major headline here is KH1 and KH2 on Steam Deck. Truly portable wifi-free KH1 and KH2 for the first time, ever. Doing the Hades Cup and end game shit on portable sounds so cozy...

On the other hand, I'm not sure KH3 will be a worthwhile experience on the deck. I'm not confident performance will be up to par, especially in areas like Port Royal in the Caribbean. That, and, for me, KH3's biggest draw in the year 2024 is running the postgame bosses, which are still very difficult even though I'm amazing... I have a hard time playing super well on handheld systems, the super-quick reactions are a lot easier for me if I'm holding a traditional controller, so I wouldn't want to feel held back by that control scheme.

Advanced gamers like myself are going to stream KH3 to my deck via moonlight.

 

[Launchpad]

Advanced gamers like myself are going to stream KH3 to my deck via moonlight.

Enjoy input lag, hope it doesn't interfere with using Simba to cheese the data fights... AGAIN

 

[Max]

I streamed God of War 3 and God of War Ragnarok to my Deck a couple times when my kids were watching the TV and I wanted to play. It worked okay, but yeah, the input lag killed it for me as any kind of long term way to play.

 

[maximumlight8]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1795273863783473433

Epic ports are getting an update presumably the same day as the steam ones. I wonder if system requirements will change, kinda have doubts about any actual fixes though.

 

[maximumlight8]

They updated the description saying you can swap languages through properties. This means that presumably you can easily swap between JP and ENG, in the past it was impossible unless you bought the game in a certain region. It is a full language swap though, JP and ENG are two different versions entirely.

 

[Squood!]

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They updated the description saying you can swap languages through properties. This means that presumably you can easily swap between JP and ENG, in the past it was impossible unless you bought the game in a certain region. It is a full language swap though, JP and ENG are two different versions entirely.

Closest we get to dual audio officially

 

[Darkspawn]

KH1.5+2.5 being demoed on Steam Deck at IGN Live!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799152698866205158

 

[Launchpad]

KH1.5+2.5 being demoed on Steam Deck at IGN Live!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799152698866205158

Very excited to see how the deck handles KH3. With some adjustments, it could be pretty solid.

 

[Max]

KH1.5+2.5 being demoed on Steam Deck at IGN Live!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799152698866205158

That's what I'm talkin' about!

 

[HakaishinChampa]

Cool thing about KH coming to steam is if anyone was waiting for it to come to pc...the game has tons of mods that should easily get ported to the Steam version.

There's randomizers for every KH game minus 0.2 and DDD which adds so much replay value

 

[maximumlight8]

Cool thing about KH coming to steam is if anyone was waiting for it to come to pc...the game has tons of mods that should easily get ported to the Steam version.

There's randomizers for every KH game minus 0.2 and DDD which adds so much replay value

idk if the randos could work, they require a separate app to play them

 

[HakaishinChampa]

idk if the randos could work, they require a separate app to play them

You're talking about OpenKH right?

I think KH1 can still work without OpenKH

 

[maximumlight8]

You're talking about OpenKH right?

I think KH1 can still work without OpenKH

KH1 rando uses Lua backend/front-end. I'm not sure if they are compatible with deck

 

[Chaser]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799506357135323259

 

[Phoenix]

That's exciting! Not sure when we'll be able to afford the Deck, but good to see it's already running well.

 

[Launchpad]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799506357135323259

looks about bang-on with how the ps4 pro ran it in 2019. We can expect 50-60fps in most areas, and then Caribbean (especially Port Royal) will be between 25-40fps

 

[Max]

looks about bang-on with how the ps4 pro ran it in 2019. We can expect 50-60fps in most areas, and then Caribbean (especially Port Royal) will be between 25-40fps

I'm assuming they're playing on it on a Deck that hasn't had any tinkering done. On a Deck with the VRAM turned up to 4 and making good use of Cryoutilities, performance will potentially be even better than what we're seeing here.

I've had games on Deck that would default to low settings to try and hold 30 fps, but with the right setup I can push medium settings at 40 or 50 fps, it's nuts.