Excerpt: "Controls are standard keyboard and mouse fair (or gamepad for you crazies), but the neat thing, is a mini-combo system where double-tapping W puts your sword into a charged-up piercing move, or double-tapping S to wind-up for a 360 degree slash that wipes out everyone around you in one fell swoop. It gives a fight some cinematic flair and gory excellence as time slows down. Each click of the mouse and corresponding sword slash has a good weight to it, and feels like you’re making contact.
At the end of each combat scenario, you’re given a rating on how you did out of 5 shurikens, and are given karma. A varied and stylish fight reaps the biggest reward. Mixing guns, shurikens, sword, and demon hearts tends to be the most effective, if you can nail the timing and not dillydally. In doing so, arms and heads fall off, blood spurts out like a scene from Kill Bill. Words like “BEHEADED”, “SHREDDED”, and “MASSACRE” give you indications you’re doing well, in almost arcade-like fashion."
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.
