Can the Steam Deck Run Guardians of the Galaxy?

In this video we are taking a look at Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy on the Steam Deck. The Deck is running on SteamOS 3.5. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2021 action-adventure game developed by Eidos-Montréal and originally published by Square Enix. In Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the player controls Peter Quill, also known as Star-Lord, from a third-person perspective. The player can attack enemies with elemental guns. The other Guardians, including Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Drax the Destroyer, are non-player characters controlled by artificial intelligence, but the player can issue commands to them during combat.

The game is fairly heavy and does not run at 60 FPS on the Steam Deck. It can at times, but only in very close quarters and with FSR Set to Performance. For the majority of the gameplay you are better off with medium settings and a 30/40 FPS Lock with FSR Set to Quality. This results in pretty good experience albeit with a short battery life of only 1:15 hours.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a pretty fun experience on the Steam Deck, but it’s best enjoyed on a bigger screen.

Footage was captured directly on the Steam Deck using a plugin called Decky Recorder

Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:07 – Low/Medium Settings Gameplay – 30 FPS Lock
02:40 – Benchmark
03:45 – Low/Medium Settings Gameplay – 30 FPS Lock
04:36 – Low Settings Gameplay – 40 FPS Lock
08:21 – Low Settings Gameplay – 60 FPS

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