Overall though, it's mostly fine - so this is a qualified success. Expect to see some pretty hard stutters and frame-time fluctuations here as the modest quad-core CPU struggles to keep pace, like in the market area in Chapter two. These NPC-dense areas are notorious for hammering CPUs on other platforms, and the same is true here. The upside is that we have managed to mostly pull 30fps out of Requiem on the Steam Deck, using SteamOS's internal frame-rate cap. Expect to see a lot of fizzling, popping, and other obtrusive image artifacts on foliage. The upsampling does a decent job of handling opaque surfaces, but transparencies are really messy. Watch on YouTube Here's how Oliver Mackenzie's Steam Deck stress-testing panned out.Įven so, image quality takes a larger hit. Instead, there are a range of smaller downgrades: missing ground tessellation, lower-quality foliage, and pulled-in draw distance, among other cutbacks. Measured up against Series S, we've basically managed to preserve the game's visual feature set - there are no glaring omissions in terms of lighting or model quality. Image quality-wise we are running at 720p, but upsampled from a much lower base pixel-count - performance mode is likely a mere 360p, albeit with temporal reconstruction adding extra detail. It's a current-gen exclusive game that targets 30fps or 40fps on consoles - so not exactly a great candidate for Steam Deck, where we've often achieved good results by running titles designed for 60fps at half frame-rate, with reduced quality settings.Īs expected, we really need to drive down the settings if we want to salvage any kind of decent experience, so I pushed all relevant settings to their lowest option without turning them off, except for texture resolution. Asobo Studios' A Plague Tale: Requiem is one of the best-looking games around and a stress test on PCs and consoles. I kicked off my testing with a game that is generally highly demanding on graphics hardware, with areas that also hit CPU hard. So how well do these games run on the Valve hardware? Are they too big for Steam Deck?

However, as we move out of the cross-gen period, PC titles are becoming more demanding - while major launches like The Callisto Protocol, The Witcher 3 Complete Edition and Gotham Knights see profound performance issues on PC. Judged on its own terms, it's certainly a powerful device though, with its quad-core Zen 2 CPU and a 1.6TF GPU that's fully compliant with the latest DX12 Ultimate API requirements. It puts weight behind your decisions, for you decide the kind of person you want to be.Since its launch, Valve's Steam Deck has delivered plenty of mobile miracles, often able to deliver exceptional visuals and creditable performance - despite the unit's actual capabilities sitting far below advertised minimum specs.

Mercy: It’s an interesting concept, to show mercy. Protip- You will get more out of the story if you first go pacifist. Great Story: With a division between human and monsters, you can either drive that separation further or mend the wound while you explore the world. It’s meta, has outstanding music and visuals, uses witty humor, has a fun story- and it’s all up to you to choose. Normally in games like this all you do is slay monsters, but you instead may show mercy to the inhabitants of this world and learn how alive and lovable the monsters you could have killed really are. No, I don’t mean in dialogue (though you do have that). You are a child dropped into an underground world of monsters, and you are given something that is unique to this game: choice. Undertale! My #3 favorite game of all time, this story is most definitely one to be on your “to-play” list.

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