A new main picture on the official Steam Deck website, discovered by PCGamesN, shows a montage of titles playing on the Deck, including Hades, No Man’s Sky, and Stray.
The montage also includes a short glimpse of a memorable moment from The Last of Us Part I, in which Ellie interacts with a giraffe.
This means that when the game is released tomorrow, it will be formally Steam Deck certified.
Neil Druckmann, co-president of Naughty Dog, announced on Twitter in December that the game would be playable on the gadget, saying, “Ellie and Joel will grace the Steam Deck, don’t worry.”
Now that Valve is promoting the game in its own promotional materials to help sell Steam Deck devices, it appears that the game will be played on the handheld from the start.
The Last of Us Part 1 PC version will include a slew of other options intended to help PC players get the most out of the game.
Many fans, including myself, will be witnessing The Last of Us as a computer game for the first time, rather than as a televised HBO drama. Excellent timing! There’s also a new speedrun option for anyone who hasn’t played the game since its rerelease in September, so you can get through the story fast. (To me, any mushroom virus apocalypse should be set to speedrun mode.) I’m not going to lounge around waiting for the fungal swarm to kiss me.
Previously, Naughty Dog—the video game company behind The Last of Us—made almost everything for the PlayStation. We’re talking about titles you probably didn’t realize were created by the same creative team as Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and Uncharted—the latter of which will be adapted into a film featuring Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in 2022. But if you wanted to play The Last of Us before, you had to either have the original game from its 2013 release on PlayStation 3 or spend a lot of money on the new PlayStation 5. The remastered game is now accessible to everyone, everywhere, thanks to a formal release on PC and Steam. Don’t be surprised if I spend the entire spring playing computer games with my two best pals, Joel and Ellie.
