As you know, in recent months new machines with the appearance of a portable console have appeared that allow us to play with some of the best known cloud platforms, such as Xbox Cloud Gaming, Luna (for the moment in the US) or GeForce NOW. . If these alternatives do not work for you, we have good news for those who have purchased a Steam Deck from PlayStation Plus, the service revamped by Sony with hundreds of titles from the original PlayStation, PSP, PS2, PS3 and PS4, will be able to be part of their libraries.
What part of PlayStation Plus can we use?
If you remember, in the new service launched last June, PS4 and PS5 owners had the ability to play hundreds of titles
To access all this we will have to use the official PC application, in addition to having a Premium or Extra subscription, which we will run in the same way as on a normal Windows computer. But of course, since we have Steam OS here it will be necessary to use the Proton layer to make it compatible. This is why (in Steam Deck desktop mode) you will need to have the ProtonUp-Qt application in the system. Once installed, find and install (add) the version there:
The next thing is to download (and unzip) the official PlayStation Plus app which you can easily find by doing a Google search like “PlayStation Plus on Steam Deck” (we recommend a specific video from the TTconT channel, which has a link in the description to download the software we used).
Install PlayStation Plus on Steam
Now with the app downloaded, Time to put it in the system so we do the following. Still in desktop mode of Steam Deck.
- Open the Steam window and go to the tab Library.
- Click on the button at the bottom left Add a product.
- Now select the option Add a non-Steam product.
- Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the PlayStation Plus app (usually this will be in Downloads).
- In the PlayStation Plus directory, select the executable psnowlauncher.exe.
Once you’ve created everything, and before running the app, we need to do a few things. The first is to enter and choose the configuration by clicking on the gear.
Now, with the window open, We go to the Compatibility tab and, once the options appear on the right, we select the same ones that you can see on the screen that you have just below. On the one hand we activate the box Force the use of a specific compatibility tool for Steam Play.
By doing the above we will see a list at the bottom where we have to choose the version of Proton that we indicated beforeIt’s the Proton-6.21-GE-2. Now all that remains is to close the windows and launch PlayStation Plus on the Steam Deck after logging in with your Sony account.