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Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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How are you supposed to play Civ without a mouse and a keyboard?
It’s surprisingly easy and comfortable. Steam controller was a revolution on this regard, at least for me. It sounds wrong but feels just right.
I have the same question as thread starter. Do you move cursor with a joystick or use something else to select units, waypoints, etc.? I am a keyboard-mouse person and find using keyboard much more convenient than gamepad even in games that have gamepad as recommended input (like Castle Crashers and some platformers).
Used to successfully play shooters with keyboard only before mouse era (the last I remember vividly is Project IGI). But now I'm terrified at the thought of playing shooter or RTS without mouse.
Also curious how (if) people play DotA2 with controller.
Personally I map the game pad keys to keyboard keys and have some under chords, I.e press one button and all other buttons behave differently, so it’s basically just like using only keyboard and not mouse, but also having the convenience of a mouse for the rare situation where there isn’t a keyboard shortcut bound
Edit: chords are just the equivalent of pressing crtl/alt/shift+something but the modifier is just whatever game pad button is comfortable for the user (for me, the background finger buttons I.e R/L4 or for the deck, also 5 for some