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Valve even includes several controller templates to get you started, regardless of if a game supports controllers or not. Scroll to the right and select Controller settings to rebind any of the buttons on the Deck, browse community layouts, and create your own layouts. You can customize your controls in any game by launching it and pressing the Steam button. You have access to four back buttons on the Steam Deck, but they don’t do anything by default. Steam + Left joystick down: Decrease screen brightness.

Steam + Left joystick up: Increase screen brightness.

Steam + Right trackpad (click): Left mouse click.

Steam + L2: Right mouse click (this is correct, believe it or not).

Steam + B (long press): Force game shutdown.

You’ll find the full list of shortcuts by holding down the Steam button, but here they are for quick reference: Still, the company did say around the release of Alyx that it was trying to release more Half-Life games in the near future, so maybe it'll happen. So while it might be true that there's a team working on a game called 'Citadel' somewhere within the glimmering guts of Valve, that doesn't mean you're going to get to play it any time soon - or at all, really. Back when Half-Life Alyx came out, the studio acknowledged that Alyx was 'at least' the sixth attempt at a new Half-Life project since the last game in the series, Episode 2.

While we'd love to get excited about these hypothetical new games, the truth is that Valve has a rich history of leaking information about projects it’s working on, only for those projects to never actually come out in the first place. Team Fortress 2 originally included more tactical mechanics (such as a 'Commander' class) before Valve decided to stick with the more traditional formula. As noted by other Valve fans, this isn't the first time that the company has experimented with a shooter/strategy formula. Though McVicker is currently working on revealing more info on the latter three games, he uploaded a lengthy video where he discusses his sources and what Citadel might look like.

According to him, the four games mentioned in the leak include a hybrid first-person shooter strategy game called Citadel, a new take on canceled Portal follow-up F-Stop, a version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that runs in Valve's Source 2 engine, and the aforementioned sequel to VR game Half-Life Alyx.

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