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Thankfully, there’s a helpful homebrew plugin calledDecky Loaderthat widens the gaming handheld’s initial abilities.
Here’s how to get Decky Loader installed and enable its various features.

You can access game launchers like Battle.net on Steam Deck using Decky Loader.
Here’s how to do that.
Here’s what you should probably do to install these.
Here’s what you gotta do to install these widgets.

You’ll first need to enable Developer Mode in the Steam Deck’s System Settings menu.
Just because a game launcher is put on Steam Deck does not mean that it has controller support.
You might need to find workarounds to get the Steam Deck controls to work with certain games.
You might find you like some of the new parameters provided.

Use Desktop Mode’s browser to download Decky Loader from GitHub.
Controller support isn’t always guaranteed to work on some of these services.

You’ll need to install the NonSteamLaunchers app.

There are plenty of helpful widgets and tools in Decky Loader.

You will need to toggle the button on for each game launcher that you want to add to Steam Deck.























