Avowed

they patched the game that was working to automatically crash when launching about 2 weeks ago. i used to love playing this now its just broken ♥♥♥♥ you obshittion.

I was looking forward to playing this game since it was announced and only found the time to get it recently. Unfortunately I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd like. The combat is fun and the world looks pretty but everything else around it just doesn't work for me. The character writing feels off, as if they don't fit the setting (though that is subjective). More importantly, despite it being verified for the Steam Deck, performance is choppy, visuals are grainy and there's some pretty bad ghosting happening all the time. I'm not a person who needs a consistent 60 fps. I've even played through games at less than 30 but framerate isn't consistently low, but instead the game freezes for briefly every few seconds and that really gets in the way of any action or exploration and the visuals are often unclear. I just can't see myself playing this for much longer.

It worked flawlessly for 4 hours, then randomly started to crash on launch, when it's compiling the shaders. I have tried every possible solutions found online, nothing works.

They have Tayn, my favourite archmagi traveling in the Living Land and writing diaries so 10/10

Not worth the full price, but for sure pick it up on sale. It's a very light no stakes experience. The world and setting are both beautiful. The dialogue is a little bit corny and sometimes cartoonish, but I wouldnt say thats an issue. You have to be into it though. It is a very light RPG that you can pick and play a few hours and you wont feel bad about it.

I had a great time with Avowed, pretty unique story and I really enjoyed the combat system. Game looked and ran awesome aswell. Only complaint would be enemy variety but that's minor for me