Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Steam Deck plays better than it looks
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6DZ0A)
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Baldur's Gate 3 is a delight on Steam Deck - even though I sometimes can't tell what's going on.
I suspected that might be the case going in. Everything I had seen about Baldur's Gate 3 before I downloaded it promised a vast, sprawling adventure, and all the streams of the game I watched on Twitch featured incredibly detailed characters and worlds. I'm sure most of those streamers were running the game on top-of-the-line rigs. I suspected that the Steam Deck, which recently had some troubles with The Last of Us Part I, might not be the best place for me to play Larian Studios' new RPG.
That said, the game just looked like so much fun, and since it won't be coming to PS5 until September, I really wanted to find a way to play it sooner. I...