It's free, safe to install, and highly unlikely to void your warranty should you need to send in your Steam Deck for an RMA. Decky's built-in store includes dozens of homebrew, community-made plugins.

At this point, Decky Loader is on Steam Deck, but you haven't yet made it possible to access various game launchers. Here's what you need to do to install these.

Learning how to install Decky Loader on Steam Deck is a reasonably straightforward process, providing you know what you’re doing. Luckily the Deck-loving experts here at Tom’s Guide are here ...

The best way to customize your Steam Deck, at least that I've found over the past several months, is to install a third-party loader called Decky. This loader unlocks access to a variety of ...

A new Steam Deck mod has unlocked AMD FSR 3.1 frame generation for a number of games that don't actively support it, hugely improving performance in the process. The Decky Framegen Plugin replaces ...

But I was in for a rude awakening. Decky-Framegen works, and I’m not going to uninstall it from my Steam Deck. But actually using the mod forced me to reset my expectations. In my recent look at ...

With years of optimization updates and patches under Valve’s belt, the Steam Deck now appears more complete than ever. Thanks to community-based modifications like Decky Loader and its plugins ...

In case that changes or in case you want to attempt it yourself, here are some guides I've written on how to install Decky Loader on Steam Deck as well as how to install Ubisoft Connect on Steam ...

but this is largely due to players using Decky Framegen, a mod that swaps DLSS for FSR in games that don't support the latter, so you can at least get some sort of frame gen on the Steam Deck.

Here's how to get Decky Loader installed and enable its various features. To start things off, we need to make sure that the Steam Deck has Developer Mode enabled. Here's how to do that.

Decky Loader allows you to install and manage plugins for Steam games on your Steam deck. These plugins can be used to enhance the gaming experience by adding new features, improving graphics or ...