Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 is a fantastic fit on Valve’s Steam Deck with many players spending hundreds, if not thousands, of hours exploring the gorgeous world of Faerun on the Linux-powered handheld.

Unfortunately, a recent SteamOS update broke functionality with Baldur’s Gate 3 with some players unable to play the game. Players immediately flocked to social media with players losing access to the game after playing for over 1,300 hours.

At the time, many players’ Steam Decks showed the game as if it was completely uninstalled, but the files could still be found installed on the handheld. Instead, the issue was a change in SteamOS that caused Valve’s automatic Steam Deck Verification to pick up the wrong version of the game.

In a statement on BlueSky, Valve Steam Deck coder Pierre-Loup Griffais told fans that “A fix has been deployed for the Baldur’s Gate 3 install issue. May have to restart Steam Deck for it to pick up the new configuration.”

Via GamingonLinux, this issue occurred because of an in-development native Linux port of Baldur’s Gate 3 that is currently in development. Multiple SteamDB depots show an unfinished Steam Deck specific version of the beloved RPG that has yet to be officially released.

Usually, Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam Deck uses the existing Windows version of the game with Proton compatibility to make the game playable on SteamOS. However, for some unknown reason, the Steam Deck Verification tool ended up pushing the not-working Linux version of the game to Deck users.

As one of the most popular games on Valve’s handheld, it’s great that the company acted so swiftly to restore functionality to the RPG, even if it is just as easy as flagging the Windows build to download instead of an unfinished build hiding somewhere in the Steam database.

For more Steam Deck coverage, read about the upcoming Valve Fremont desktop console which recently leaked via Geekbench tests. While not as exciting (to me, at least) as a new, more powerful handheld, it shows just how far Valve is planning to take SteamOS in the future.