Avowed has just released on PC, and while it is a damn good time so far, it's a little bit of a mixed bag on the Steam Deck. Here are our first impressions so far.
It’s a UE5 game, as far as I know every UE5 game has rough performance, at least at launch. This one sounds better than most, but I’ll probably wait a couple years until it’s on sale and better optimized.
To be fair, that’s a 6 year old game. That’s a pretty long time in terms of hardware progression, basically every home console generation (with the exception of the switch) has been 5-6 years long.
Definitely holding off for a while. Maybe by the time the first sale comes around they’ll have given the steam deck some love.
It’s a UE5 game, as far as I know every UE5 game has rough performance, at least at launch. This one sounds better than most, but I’ll probably wait a couple years until it’s on sale and better optimized.
Outer Worlds (UE4?) plays well on Deck. I’m confident they’ll get Avowed running well eventually.
To be fair, that’s a 6 year old game. That’s a pretty long time in terms of hardware progression, basically every home console generation (with the exception of the switch) has been 5-6 years long.