
It’s a clever, surprising, and unrelentingly charming introduction to your new gadget, not a mention a reminder that Valve should really make more games.Īt the suggestion of several RPS readers (and with the implicit recommendation of, apparently, scores of other Steam Deck owners), I finally got round to playing Vampire Survivors.

It’s essentially a free Steam Deck tutorial, designed to help you get used to the controls layout, but is entertainingly administered through a genuinely funny mini-jaunt through a pre-Portal Aperture Science. The short and sweet Aperture Desk Job isn’t just one of the best games to play on the Steam Deck – it should probably be the first one you try. Oh, and I’ve added developer/publisher info and store links, based on feedback on our most anticipated games of 2023 feature. Should you want some inspiration on where to start, though, read on. Of course, if you’ve recently acquired a Steam Deck of your own, feel free to ignore all of this and just play the PC games you already own – that in itself is one reason why it’s such a neat device. But they are all games that I’ve found are particularly well suited to the Steam Deck life, be it through an ease of adapting to its onboard controls, high performance, or ideally both.

With that in mind, I might stress that this is not an organised ranking of quality in the way that (for example) our best strategy games or best RPGs lists are.
