Nostalgia is big right now. Between crowd-funded revivals like Shadowrun Returns and publisher rebooted franchises like Rise of the Triad, there’s no shortage of games being released that look to recapture the spirit of videogames’ past. Some of these titles stumble by sticking too closely to outdated design elements — let’s never navigate floating platforms from a first-person perspective ever again. Others manage to cherry pick the kind of mechanics that still hold up today and incorporate them into otherwise modern gameplay. The newly released Shadow Warrior, a fresh take on 3D Realms’ 1997 shooter, belongs to the latter category.
The Shadow Warrior trilogy is currently listed with a 93% discount on Steam, and you can save more than $100 - ideal for your Steam Deck?
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@GhostMirror
Yeah same here. Lots of unsuported indie horror games that end up being fully playble with standard controls and no issues whatsoever.
Thus far, most unsupported games run fine on Steamdeck but I have run on some issues with some lesser known games as well (do not boot at all despite trying various proton versions) but again those were mostly indie horror games.
Playable games almost always play well and have minimal if any issues so I am not sure what Anast is trying to point out here.
I have shadow warrior 2 and am playing it on deck right now. Runs really well and looks good too.
The "playable" label can be something as simple as needing a mouse click on a menu cause controlelrs don't work lol its crazy how many automatically claim a game will run like shit just cause of that label, same with those unverified. take helldivers 2, its unverified on steam because of the mp, not because the game itself doesnt work. just something to keep in mind.
I wasn't really impressed with the second game, hopefully the third one is better.
1 st one is the best. Second one is meh. Couldn't play third one because of, it was crashing on my PC.
The Shadow Warrior reboot debuted on PC 10 years ago today. Thankfully, it's still compatible with modern PC, PlayStation and Xbox formats.
Shadow Warrior debuted in 1997, an unlikely Duke Nukem 3D follow-up that later birthed a respected modern FPS series.
