Styx Blades of Greed Steam Deck Performance: Is it Playable?

Styx Blades of Greed Steam Deck Performance Test: 2026 Steam Deck Games – Handheld/Docked Gameplay, Docked Direct Capture Gameplay, Full Game FPS, Settings on SteamOS 3.7 – Lossless Scaling Bonus Test

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Thank you to Nacon for providing a key to showcase Styx Blades of Greed on the Steam Deck.

❗️All gameplay is captured live on handheld so you can always see the real Handheld experience, including FPS, settings, and battery life during extended play.

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🎮 Steam Deck OLED
🕐 Tested: 17th February 2026
⚙️ SteamOS 3.7.19 Stable
🛠️ Installed on Internal Drive (Fresh Clean Install)
📀 Steam Version
🛠️ Low Settings Preset

NOTES: Styx Blades of Greed requires the lowest settings and NIS/FSR at 30FPS to stand a chance at making it playable. Unfortunately, the optimization of the game in general is very poor with frequent fluctuations in frame rate and stutters/hitches throughout playing.

I tested the demo here previously, where the performance hasn’t shown much improvement since – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hpZ98-xiH0

Hopefully the developer can patch the game up for the future.

⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
00:00 – Nvidia Image Scaling 55 New Game
02:26 – Settings Menu Handheld
02:42 – FSR Frame Generation Test
03:20 – 2X FPS Lossless Scaling Test
04:50 – Nvidia Image Scaling 50
06:31 – 30FPS FSR Balanced
07:34 – Settings Menu Docked
07:54 – Native No Upscaling Docked
09:07 – FSR Balanced Docked
10:27 – Nvidia Image Scaling 50 Docked

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Steam Deck OLED
SteamOS 3.7.19
4GB VRAM

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