Steam Deck keeps looking better and better, and Valve’s free downloadable short, set in the Portal universe, looks to show off the new portable hardware in interesting ways.
I went to bed last night thinking about what a new Valve game built for the Steam Deck would look like. That’s almost entirely because I had just read a Gabe Newell interview in Edge magazine, where they asked him about Valve developing a first-party game to show off the portable hardware, and he said Valve thought about it but decided to put its resources elsewhere — like making Dota and Counter-Strike work better on the device. So I was a little surprised this morning to see Valve announce Aperture Desk Job, a free game/tech demo thing set in the Portal universe. There’s enough wiggle room here that I’m not so worried about Newell’s comments being misleading — Valve refers to it as a “short” rather than a game, for one.
