About
Stranger Things 3: The Game is a retro 16-bit-style pixel-art beat 'em up adventure based on the third season of the Netflix series, developed and published by BonusXP and built in Unity. Players explore Hawkins, solve puzzles, and fight enemies as one of twelve show characters, with up to two active at once for couch co-op. Critical reception was mixed, with reviewers praising the faithful adaptation but criticizing the thin combat and repetitive quests. It was pulled from PC and console storefronts in 2021 after the BonusXP/Netflix licensing deal wound down, making it no longer obtainable through normal channels.
Screenshots
Official store screenshots from Steam — deckport links them, never rehosts. Hover to pause; click to preview.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- STBomb.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Platinum runs flawlessly
⚙ Setup notes
Game: Delisted Steam game (appid 1097800), Unity engine (BonusXP / Netflix).
Proton: ProtonDB rates it platinum and Valve lists it Steam Deck Verified — runs essentially out of the box on Proton/Deck. Stock Proton 8/9 or Proton Experimental are fine; GE-Proton also works.
DRM: No GFWL/SecuROM/DRM and no widescreen hack needed — it's a fixed top-down 2D Unity title that scales fine to the Deck's 1280x800.
Launch: No special launch options required.
Controller: Full native XInput controller support, so the Deck gamepad maps automatically; supports local co-op with a second pad.
Install: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links the game files.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy. deckport links nothing.
Delisted: Pulled from Steam/GOG; community ProtonDB reports rate it platinum and it runs cleanly on Proton/Deck with no DRM, no widescreen fix, and no launch options.
Controller: Native XInput controller support means the Deck pad works out of the box (plus second-pad local co-op).
NEEDS-TEST: Binary name (STBomb.exe) inferred from the Unity build's internal codename — confirm the actual .exe in your install folder.
Co-op: Single-player/local co-op only, so delisting doesn't break it.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.