Twentieth Century Summer time Child Steam Deck Overview, Information, New Verified Video games, Gross sales, and Extra – TouchArcade

Welcome to this week’s early version (I feel I’m transferring it to earlier within the week going ahead) of the Steam Deck Weekly. Forward of Gamescom 2024, some notable bulletins, trailers, releases, and new Steam Deck Verified video games are the main target of at the moment’s article. On the assessment entrance, the highlights are the Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child, Tomba! Particular Version, and Flock protecting the PC ports forward of Shaun’s full opinions of the Change variations of the primary two. Earlier than the information and new Verified video games, let’s get into the opinions and Steam Deck impressions.

Steam Deck Recreation Opinions & Impressions

Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child Steam Deck Overview

Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child is considered one of my favourite Spike Chunsoft releases in recent times. Given how a lot I reward the writer’s output, I wouldn’t say that frivolously. After a busy June, issues are a bit chilled out on the discharge schedule now, and Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child has arrived on the good time earlier than the busy season begins. I didn’t get entry to the PC model till final night time, however I’ve spent the previous few days with the Nintendo Change port of Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child. I’ve loved the sport itself lots with its impeccable vibes and enjoyable gameplay loop. Keep tuned for Shaun’s full assessment as I concentrate on the PC port for at the moment’s article. The 16:9 screenshots are from enjoying at 4K docked whereas the 800p screenshots are when performed on my Steam Deck OLED.

Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child is presently untested by Valve, but it surely principally must be Steam Deck Verified so far as I’m involved. It has Steam Cloud assist, appropriately brings up the on-screen keyboard for textual content entry, and runs with out points exterior a number of efficiency ones I’ll get into. I’ve put in a number of hours into it completely on my Steam Deck OLED at the moment, and every part works properly after one particular tweak.

Earlier than the tweak, Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child has two body price choices proper now: 30fps and 60fps. It doesn’t assist uncapped body charges as of this writing, and the 30fps mode feels fairly dangerous proper now. The truth is, I seen some points with the 60fps mode on my OLED Deck as properly. Due to a tip by a pal of mine who purchased the Japanese launch, setting the Steam Deck’s display screen (or your individual excessive refresh price display screen on PC) to 60hz or a a number of of 60hz leads to smoother digital camera motion. Enjoying at 60fps at 90hz leads to digital camera motion that doesn’t really feel good in any respect with the microstuttering. Should you play on Home windows, take into account setting the fps to 59.95 utilizing exterior instruments for correctly paced frames.

Exterior the body price, there are not any actual points with Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child on Steam Deck or PC. The picture high quality setting’s most noticeable distinction is the draw distance for foliage and different gadgets. You possibly can modify decision from 1024×768 all the best way as much as 4K, modify brightness, toggle v-sync, and modify the show mode (fullscreen, windowed, borderless). On the excessive picture high quality preset and enjoying at 4K simply to check, the body price was within the 20s. Even at 1080p, the excessive preset is an excessive amount of to hit a locked 60fps on Deck. Enjoying on the Deck’s personal display screen at 720p leads to one of the best expertise proper now.

On the management aspect, it has keyboard and controller assist with Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child even displaying PlayStation button prompts when utilizing a DualSense controller on PC. By default and when utilizing the Steam Deck itself, it exhibits Xbox button prompts. You possibly can rebind mouse, keyboard, and controller buttons in the important thing config possibility on the backside of the controls tab within the settings menu.

Yet one more factor I seen is how the load instances in sure areas have been surprisingly lengthy on Steam Deck. I swapped to Proton Experimental (bleeding edge) and the load time vanished nearly fully. With this and the 60fps at 60hz setting on Steam Deck OLED, I obtained the absolute best transportable expertise for Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child proper now.

I even have entry to the Broadcast Over Sundown DLC, however I will likely be protecting that by itself in a separate article as soon as I get round to enjoying it. For now, I’m very proud of how Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child feels and performs on Steam Deck, and will likely be replaying all of it the best way over the approaching week.

In its present state, Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child’s PC port is okay, however a number of tweaks will enhance it significantly. After spending nearly all of at the moment with it on Steam Deck, it’s positively a massively improved expertise over the Change model in handheld mode. Natsu-Mon: Twentieth Century Summer time Child itself is great, and one other good immersive and enjoyable world to sink into this month forward of the busy season.

Tomba! Particular Version Steam Deck Overview

Over time Restricted Run Video games’ most vital contribution so far as I’m involved, is bringing The Home in Fata Morgana to consoles within the West, and as an entire version with content material not out there on PC even at the moment. Since then, my most-anticipated launch was Tomba! Particular Version which has lastly launched on PC, Change, and PS5. I’ve been enjoying it on Steam Deck and Change whereas Shaun works on his full assessment of the Change model. Since getting assessment codes, Tomba! Particular Version has already been up to date a number of instances and is in a great place proper now, however there are a number of points holding it again.

If you boot up the sport, you can begin a brand new recreation, view the museum (art work, scans, gallery), watch interviews and the historical past of Tomba! by means of movies, try the music participant with the 2 soundtracks, and modify the sport choices. These choices embody PC port options like decision, window mode, language, vibration, soundtrack possibility, background coloration for the principle menu, and viewing the credit. Whereas in-game, you’ll be able to pause and use the emulation menu by hitting R2 or rewind utilizing L2. The emulation menu features a few display screen choices, a single filter possibility, 3 borders or the flexibility to show borders off, a reset button, save states, and the flexibility to give up the sport. I hope to see extra borders, extra save states, and quicker in-game emulation. Proper now, opening the in-game menu for utilizing gadgets or something is much too sluggish. I’d additionally wish to see extra filter choices.

Revisiting Tomba! by means of its Tomba! Particular Version launch and in addition enjoying the PS1 authentic on my PS Vita has been attention-grabbing. The load instances for the menu are related, and I hoped we’d see higher emulation on that entrance on Change and Steam Deck. Barring that, I didn’t discover main points. The museum is definitely the spotlight proper now as a fan of the unique. When it was initially introduced to solely embody a brand new soundtrack, I used to be dissatisfied, however I’m glad the crew managed getting the unique soundtrack as an possibility right here.

Given the additional content material included, Tomba! Particular Version is excellent, and I’m glad to have an official launch of Tomba! on PC, however I hope Restricted Run Video games can deal with the save system and a few of the emulation points. Should you preferred Tomba! again within the day, that is nonetheless value getting.

Flock Steam Deck Overview

Flock from Hole Ponds, Richard Hogg, and Annapurna Interactive is a pleasant and colourful recreation that I’m dissatisfied I didn’t play sooner. It was launched a number of weeks in the past on Steam and consoles, and I’ve been enjoying it on Steam Deck and PS5 for this assessment. I used to be curious to see how the stunning aesthetic scaled throughout {hardware}, and whether or not it was a great match for transportable play. As of this writing, Flock is marked as Steam Deck Playable and never Verified as a result of some textual content may be tough to learn on the Deck’s display screen.

Flock is an journey exploration recreation about accumulating completely different sorts of creatures. It’s playable on-line or offline, and has a concentrate on flight as properly. After a couple of minutes of enjoying it, I used to be bought. Working in the direction of accumulating all of the creatures took some time, however you must anticipate to “end” Flock in a number of hours. It initially begins out easy, however grows extra attention-grabbing with how it’s important to allure creatures and even discover extra of the elusive ones because the story progresses.

On PC, Flock has fairly a number of graphics choices. It runs at 800p on Steam Deck, however getting it to run at 60fps or greater, takes tweaking. Should you’re aiming for 90fps, you must begin on the lowest preset and switch a number of settings up. I like to recommend enjoying with the decision scale at 100 as a result of Flock doesn’t look nice beneath that. Exterior that, the colourful aesthetic shines on the Steam Deck OLED, and I ended up enjoying Flock extra on Steam Deck than my PS5.

Talking of PS5, I really like the DualSense haptics applied in Flock. Since Flock is in Xbox Recreation Move, I additionally performed it a bit there. It runs as anticipated, however there appears to be a bug with audio chopping out that wants fixing. Thus far, I’ve not been in a position to check the multiplayer on Steam Deck but so I can’t touch upon that side of the sport.

Flock is a pleasant and beautiful expertise that completely delivered what I needed in a brand new recreation from the Hohokum builders. It sounds wonderful and is a soothing expertise nearly all the best way. It is not going to be for everybody, however Flock managed to hit each proper be aware and I’m now working my method by means of it once more on PS5 after enjoying it on Steam Deck.

Flock Steam Deck assessment rating: 4.5/5

Information and Trailers

Destiny/Keep Night time Remastered is out this week on Steam and Change worldwide for $29.99. What a shock this was. We knew it was within the works, however I anticipated it in 2025. Having it out this week and this low-cost is stunning. I bear in mind paying greater than double that for a PS Vita bodily from Japan years in the past. Watch the brand new trailer beneath:

There may be nonetheless extra Destiny information this previous week with Destiny/Further Report coming to Steam and consoles subsequent yr, as a remake of the PSP authentic. Watch the trailer for it beneath:

The ultimate little bit of Destiny information is Destiny/hole Ataraxia Remastered coming to Steam and Change. It is a sequel to Destiny/Keep Night time, and hopefully it means we get a double pack bodily with Destiny/Keep Night time that additionally sees the package deal arrive on PS5 sooner or later:

Capcom has began releasing quick gameplay movies for mechanics and weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds, my most-anticipated recreation of 2025. Watch crucial weapon and two of the mechanics trailers beneath:

Deadly Fury: Metropolis of the Wolves’ latest trailer showcases Rock Howard. The sport continues to look unimaginable. Watch the trailer beneath:

Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is launching about two weeks earlier within the West on Steam and consoles Dragami Video games has introduced. It releases on September twelfth within the West.

Bleach: Rebirth of Souls from Bandai Namco noticed one more trailer this week showcasing Byakuya Kuchiki forward of the sport’s launch on Steam and consoles.

No Extra Robots has revealed Descenders Subsequent, a brand new Desenders recreation with the goal of making the one excessive sports activities recreation anybody wants. It debuts subsequent yr on Steam and Recreation Move. It’s going to see extra sports activities added so long as gamers preserve checking it out.

Kodansha revealed a number of Fairy Tail indie video games within the type of Dungeons, Seaside Volleyball Havoc, and Delivery of Magic. These are all due on Steam with Fairy Tail Dungeons out on August twenty sixth and Fairy Tail Seaside Volleyball Havoc out September sixteenth.

Obsidian’s Avowed is now releasing on February 18th, 2025 out of its Fall 2024 window. That is doubtless to offer it extra respiration room with the opposite huge titles out this yr.

Inti Creates has launched a brand new trailer for deckbuilding RPG Card-en-Ciel forward of its launch on October twenty fourth for Steam and consoles. Watch the trailer beneath:

New Steam Deck Verified & Playable video games for the week

Panic’s upcoming Arco being Verified forward of launch is good to see. I’m engaged on a assessment of it on Change and Steam Deck. Past that, D3’s latest launch YEAH! YOU WANT “THOSE GAMES,” RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! 2, Riven, and Minishoot’ Adventures getting Verified alongside Spike Chunsoft’s Quintessential Quintuplets getting a Playable ranking spherical up the highlights of this week from no matter Valve has examined.

• Arco – Verified
• Leisure Swimsuit Larry 1 – Within the Land of the Lounge Lizards – Playable
• Minishoot’ Adventures – Verified
• Riven – Verified
• The Quintessential Quintuplets – Recollections of a Quintessential Summer time – Playable
• YEAH! YOU WANT “THOSE GAMES,” RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! 2 – Verified

Steam Deck Recreation Gross sales, Reductions, and Specials

There are two notable Humble Bundles on proper now. The primary is the board recreation night time one that includes Wingspan, Dune, and extra right here. The second is the LEGO one right here which is nice worth in the event you don’t already personal most of those video games like I do.

That’s all for this version of the Steam Deck Weekly. As common, you’ll be able to learn all our previous and future Steam Deck protection right here. In case you have any suggestions for this characteristic or what else you’d wish to see us do across the Steam Deck, tell us within the feedback beneath. I hope you all have an excellent day, and thanks for studying.