
I’ve been playing PC games that I never would be able to from the comfort of my couch pretty much whenever I get a spare moment, games ranging from the wonderfully outdated Murder House to Jurassic World Evolution to even the upcoming Rollerdrome flawlessly. The first thing I want to do when I finish working is to get away from the desk, so unless the genre is best experienced with a mouse and keyboard or if it’s only available on PC, I spend most of my time playing console games. My job requires sitting at a desk for up to 50 hours a week, which is not the best thing for your body, doubly so when you start to feel the sands of time trickling away as I so vividly do these days. That backlog is so farcical because while I love PC gaming, I don’t love being sat at my PC. After putting myself on the waiting list for them to call my bingo number (or however Valve’s system worked), I was excited to finally get my hands on the Steam Deck and start ticking off my frankly farcical backlog of Steam games. Plus, the Steam Deck has achievements - I am a monkey, give me that dopamine rush. The Switch has been a mainstay of my handheld routine for the last five years, but it’s starting to feel a little long in the tooth when you pick it up after playing on more contemporary tech. That’s why I found myself so drawn to the Steam Deck, Valve’s girthy handheld that lets you take a lot of your Steam library on the go with you.

Trying to get through a gaming backlog is like climbing up Mount Everest with Crocs on in the middle of an avalanche. Even just getting through about half of all of the Castlevania games ever made will take at least a good few months to plow through, and that’s without getting into life’s other distractions, like movies, shows, books, and arguing with strangers online.



I don’t know if you know this, but there are a lot of video games, more than any one person could ever feasibly play.
