![]() ![]() ![]() But you do make the world a little more manageable for you and other players, slowly building bridges, roads, and ladders that will inevitably be destroyed by nature. No, you don’t get to shoot much stuff, nor do you conquer the giant open-world map. ![]() What if Hideo Kojima made his magnum opus, but most people wrote it off as a tedious walking simulator? Reader, it happened! Death Stranding is my personal game of the decade, an astounding mishmash of everything to appear in a Kojima game: earnest critiques of capitalism and the pain points of democracy, eerie premonitions of global pandemics and a gig economy forced to carry society on its shoulders, and enough mommy issues to justify a lifetime of therapy. Image: Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment If you’re looking for a relaxing yet exciting adventure game experience that plays great on the Steam Deck, this is the one to play. The satisfying sound and haptic feedback of the Deck’s left and right triggers makes the challenge of climbing the cliff faces of the game’s impossibly vast and looming tower as painless and pleasing as possible, and the visual and sound quality of the Deck is terrific at rendering the gorgeous vistas and ambient soundscapes of the world. It’s that last point that makes the Steam Deck my preferred platform of choice to play Jusant. The post-apocalyptic fantasy climbing game from French developer Don’t Nod ( Life Is Strange) has a lot going for it: a mysterious and compelling world with beautiful art design, a moving orchestral music score, and tight controls that are easy to learn and gratifying to master. ![]() Jusant has been my go-to chill-out game of choice this year, and I can’t imagine playing it on anything other than the Steam Deck. ![]()
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