@[email protected] of you decide to give it a shot, don't rush it, let the game's systems digest at your own pace. It's a huge game with over a decade of feature/scope creep. The main questline & story is wonderful (if you know nothing about the game, the second dream is/was a HUGE spoiler that many people still respect, myself included), the gunplay and visual fidelity are fantastic, and the game runs perfectly fine on the Steam Deck!
It's a fantastic game to pick up, run a few missions, craft a few things, put down for the night and pick back up tomorrow. It's also a very dense and at times grindy game. I've been playing it on and off since it released on steam, and even I've felt burnt out on it after a while.
@[email protected] I've played on both, and I can agree with M&K being more intuitive, but I don't mind the twin stick controls they have on the Steam Deck. Probably helps that I grew up on M&K shooters and first person games, so it comes a bit more natural to me.
Glad to see the gameplay itself is working for you! It's the systems that you engage with during your downtime that can get a bit dense, so if it ever gets to be too much just go run some more defense or survival missions, let your brain zone out for a bit while you clear rooms, then come back later