Ubisoft has confirmed that Murderer’s Creed Shadows will run on Steam Deck at launch, which is nice albeit sudden information. It is sudden, as a result of final month Ubisoft dominated out Steam Deck assist, mentioning—fairly fairly—that Valve’s handheld is “beneath our minimal specs for PC“.
So what’s modified? Presumably the studio has carried out some testing, tweaked some knobs, and found that the sport does truly run. “We’re completely happy to say that we’re supporting Steam Deck at launch and are at present awaiting the extent of classification from Valve,” the official Murderer’s Creed X account wrote. “Extra data to return quickly.”
Steam Deck OLED launched in November 2023 and is holding up astonishingly nicely. It runs Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and a bunch of different current blockbusters I actually did not count on it might run. That is spectacular work for a handheld machine, and equally spectacular work from the builders who handle to make their video games work on it.
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However will Murderer’s Creed Shadows be enjoyable to play on Steam Deck? I’m uncertain. These aforementioned heavyhitters are each “Verified” Steam Deck video games, however they’re clearly made for bigger screens and beefier rigs. It is cool that they run, however it’s fairly arduous to take pleasure in them once they look nearer to shifting Claude Monet work than trendy videogames. They’re smeared, jerky, and general suboptimal. Possibly I am being choosy, however I normally discover I am much less choosy than different PC players.
Nonetheless, if Steam Deck is your solely gaming machine—and I really feel like that is a rising class of participant—Murderer’s Creed Shadows is on the menu. It is nice to see studios truly addressing the still-small however rising handheld market immediately, too.
Will Murderer’s Creed Shadows issue into our listing of the finest Steam Deck video games? Time will inform, however for those who ask me, the machine is ideal for many indies, CRPGs (these monitor pads), and Vampire Survivors.
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