Tides of Tomorrow Steam Deck Performance: Is it Playable?

Tides of Tomorrow Steam Deck Performance Test: 2026 Steam Deck Games – Handheld/Docked Gameplay – SteamOS 3.8.2 – Lossless Scaling Bonus Test

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🎮 Steam Deck OLED
🕐 Tested: 21st April 2026
⚙️ SteamOS 3.8.2
🛠️ Installed on Internal Drive (Fresh Clean Install)
📀 Steam Version
⚙️ Default Preset Render Scale 45

⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
00:00 – Boat Fight Handheld
02:02 – Stronghold Handheld
04:17 – 2X FPS Lossless Scaling
05:29 – Boat Fight Docked
07:54 – Pleasure Lane Docked
11:28 – Boat Race Docked
14:00 – Full Settings Menu

NOTES: Tides of Tomorrow is a very demanding game on the Steam Deck. In areas with lots of NPC’s, the FPS will tank between 10-20FPS. The graphics settings on SteamOS seem to be completely locked down and using the launch command “SteamDeck=0 %command%” would not work for me to unlock the Windows graphics menu so I could investigate further.

We have no Upscaling options available like FSR/XeSS and only a Resolution Scale slider which I had to set to around 45 to achieve somewhat playable gameplay.

Steam – https://store.steampowered.com/app/2678080/Tides_of_Tomorrow/

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Steam Deck OLED
SteamOS 3.8.2
4GB VRAM

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