
It’s shocking what they can stuff inside a laptop these days, but often, their sheer size stretches the definition of “portable.” It’s a smaller computer. Previously, the closest solution to something like the Steam Deck was a clunky, expensive gaming laptop. Can you start tinkering with Linux command lines and mess up the device? Genuinely, nothing’s stopping you. Can you drop straight into a full desktop mode that looks an awful lot like Windows but doesn’t work exactly like Windows but will let you load non-gaming software, like Chrome and Spotify? Absolutely. Can you run games the Steam Deck isn’t powerful enough for, just to see how it works, even though it’s probably going to be a bad experience with a terrible frame rate? Sure. It suggests a world that broadens the definition of a “PC gamer,” making it less about how much you overspent on a GPU and more about PC gaming’s other biggest benefit: freedom.Ĭan you load the Steam Deck up with emulators? Yep. But time and time again, it accomplished a simple but complicated task: play games wherever I want, whenever I want. It is the result of six years of solo development, dozens of donuts (for research), and one fateful encounter with a raccoon.That magic comes with caveats: the (hot) fan runs loudly and constantly, even when idling the battery life is all over the place and rarely lasts more than a few hours on games that are modestly taxing to the hardware it’s large and awkward to hold. The hole won’t stop until the whole county is all gone.ĭonut County was created by Ben Esposito, designer on What Remains of Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan. You can use it to solve puzzles.or just destroy stuff.


You play as BK, a hole-driving raccoon who swallows up his friends and their homes to earn idiotic prizes. Raccoons have taken over Donut County with remote-controlled trash-stealing holes. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground.
