If you’re on a Mac, you’ll need to right-click the app, select “Show Contents, ” and then open Contents/Resources. If you’re playing on Steam, you can get to your install folder by right-clicking Wildermyth in the Steam library and selecting Manage > Browse local files. (This doesn’t need to contain any text, the game just checks if the file exists) You can enable the dev mode by adding devMode.txt to your install folder.Maybe the Steam Deck will make the game convenient enough to win over a handful of curious people to take the plunge into Death Stranding’s sticky, inky depths. Plenty of folks didn’t give the game a shot on PlayStation 4 or PC. Where other games ask you to become the ruler of their world, Death Stranding reminds you that we are all merely tourists awaiting our one-way flight off of this rock. 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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