Welcome to 2026! The age old question remains; how are you running Battle.net on Steam OS in Steam Deck?
I had an itch to try out the new class in D2. So I fired up the old Battle.net install that I previously had running through Lutris when D4’s expansion came out. It’s been a while, and something obviously changed with the Battle net launcher that it was broken in Lutris. I had to uninstall and reinstall numerous times through Lutris until it finally took properly.
Curious if lately others are simply installing it and running via Proton as a non-steam game that I can sidestep the Lutris process?
I saw there was NonSteamLaunchers via Decky Loader, but I couldn’t figure out how to get it installed and it wasn’t showing up in the plugin store when I searched for it. It was late so I didn’t have enough time to dig further there. The Bible quotes also seemed weird in the git, but whatever, if it works I’d be willing to try.
I used Lutris for bnet games that are not on Steam, works great with SC2, if you want to force compile all shaders, run the “unit preloader” custom map
I’ve heard Faugus is good too
Lutris works best in my experience for running it. I have battle.net running through proton 10 in it. I think I ended up installing battlenet.exe through steam, then swapping the prefix to the steam-created one in Lutris because Lutris was having issues installing the launcher for me. Wow and D2R work fine, but I haven’t tried D4.
Steam was a pain in the butt by itself for me.
NonSteamLaunchers may be the easiest way, but it’s no longer on the decky store due to some drama stuff. Instead you download the zip file, unzip it, and then place the whole folder into ~/homebrew/plugins. Restart steam and it should show up.
Otherwise I’ve used bottles on desktop to install it. Unfortunately Lutris installs are becoming increasingly unreliable in my experience.
Not really helpful, but D4, D2R and Overwatch are on Steam. The RTSs (SC, SC2, WC3) I wouldn’t want to play on a handheld anyway.
I’m on desktop, but Heroic and Faugus have worked the best for me. I always had some sort of troubles when using Lutris and Bottles.
Faugus makes it incredibly simple. Came here to post about it
Recently got back into hots, and faugus worked almost flawlessly
I just got the new version on steam instead
I hear ya, I was hoping to avoid double dipping…
I know where you’re coming from but the price difference was $15 to just have it on steam so I said F it. I’m not using battle net otherwise ATM anyway
I’m running Lutris on desktop and Steam Deck to play WoW. Works fine. Just remember it was a bit irritating to set up the first time with trying to get the Battle.net installer to run properly
I could only ever get D2R to work. Noting else seemed to load. Probably user error though since the battlenet shit was so frustrating to get going
I used bottles for a year or two and just switched to Faugus Launcher. Seems a lot more reliable at opening/closing Battle.net for whatever reason.
