![]() I think about it every week partly because its soundtrack is my favorite writing music, partly because its toys litter my desk, and mostly because it’s just that good. Nier: Automata is the game I most often find myself wanting to play instead of the many fine-but-forgettable shooters and open-world distractions that land on my desk. My blurb for Polygon’s best games of the 2010s applies to why Nier: Automata belongs on every Steam Deck: With the Steam Deck, folks can now have it both ways.Īlso available on Nintendo Switch. The Definitive Edition then came to Steam in 2020, but, of course, it lacked the portability of the Switch version, forcing players to choose between visuals and convenience. The JRPG to end all JRPGs first launched in 2018 on Steam and PlayStation 4, only to be bested a year later by a Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch, which included additional content and could be played on the go. The best place to play Dragon Quest 11 has changed over the years. ![]() The developers have discovered the formula for a perfect portable game, but for the time being, you can’t find this one on Switch or smartphones. Runs take 10-30 minutes and pair well with an audiobook or podcast. Vampire Survivors is the unholy union of clickers, roguelikes, and Gauntlet. Now prepare to burn dozens of hours on a $2.99 2D dungeon crawler that nearly plays itself. So you’ve dropped half a grand on a portable video game machine capable of powering the most complex and expensive 3D video games on the planet. The convenience of a portable device turns what I meant to be a 15-minute grind session into a two-hour journey through a labyrinthine dungeon. I promise myself that I’ll stop once I see what’s at the end of a moss-lined cave or over a burning horizon, but then I see some new curiosity, and suddenly, I’m pummeling my way through another dungeon. This is the game that has kept me awake past midnight. It’s not perfect - I play on low settings and occasionally experience frame rate dips - but Elden Ring works, and that’s all I need to farm souls (er, “runes”) in FromSoftware’s open-world expansion of its Dark Souls formula. Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco via Polygon Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco
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