Not every demo featured at Steam Next Fest demo is going to be a perfect fit for the Steam Deck OLED, but I’ve been playing a new supernatural shooter that absolutely slaps on the handheld. The fact that it feels like a blend of Stephen King’s Carrie and modern gritty revenge films is admittedly what drew me in initially, but I now have a solid hardware reason for picking Children of the Sun as soon as it releases.
Best described as a bullet time puzzle game, Children of the Sun places you in the vengeful shoes of THE GIRL, a masked sniper who’s hellbent on taking down members of a cult. Ultimately, the name of the game is to navigate a single round through the head of every unsuspecting cultist till you eventually land one in the head honcho’s heart, and while those mechanics are enough to keep things pretty exciting through the demo, the journey itself is a psychedelic trip chock full of abstract patterns and high contrast playpens, and it feels like using a regular screen for this new romp by René Rother and Devolver Digital would be a cardinal sin.
