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Dave Meikleham

Ratchet comes to Steam Deck — can Valve’s handheld do justice to PS5’s most demanding game?

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the game that pushed PS5’s blistering SSD further than any other at time of writing. In fact, the game is so demanding, Insomniac wisely scrapped a planned PS4 version. So how the heck can it run on the Steam Deck?!

The studio tweeted that the upcoming PC port of Ratchet’s latest adventure will not only be playable on Valve’s mini PC (alongside desktops and laptops) now that it's launched, but it will also carry Valve’s official verification. The fact that a game with such seamless loading is coming to aging HDDs is one thing, but it’s borderline unthinkable picturing Rift Apart being playable on the Deck. 

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