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Steam Deck runs Arch at its core. The distro has nothing to do with it.
How you have Steam installed might though. Do you have it installed via Flatpak by chance?
Installed via pacman.
You could try the Flatpak version, maybe. Also have you tried some DLL overrides?
Make sure you did this: https://github.com/cabca/Linux-files/blob/main/Arch%20Linux%20-%20How%20to%20enable%20multilib%20and%20install%20Steam%20using%20pacman.md
Don't defile your beautiful installation with trash like flatpak. It's probably not the Steam installation.
isn't steam still 32 bit...? why would flatpak be defiling, but not adding 32 bit libraries to your system?