115 points

That’s great news. The game already runs great on Steam Deck, but sometimes the EA app is really difficult to get logged in to.

I highly recommend this to anyone with a dock and a significant other. My wife and I played a lot of it together, and I overheard her telling her friends that it was like we were playing a pixar movie together.

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19 points

Yep, a truly great game, deserves every award it got

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12 points

Me and my wife… Got really bored. The gameplay loop is supppperr trivial, and even though they add in stuff every now and again, eh…

I dunno, it’s okay - but I just don’t get the hype. I wanted to pitch in because if someone is considering buying it I’d really recommend checking a Let’s Play of it before trying it.

It felt like a game specifically designed for a gamer to introduce gaming to their never-gamed-before partner. If you’re both experienced gamers like we are, I wonder whether you’d give up on it too.

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12 points

Me and my wife are both big gamers. We both enjoyed it a lot. I get what you’re talking about in the gameplay loop, but we play games for stories. The story was engaging and kept us interested. I did enjoy the gameplay though.

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My partner is pretty much a non gamer, for her it was perfect.

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5 points

Agreed, we thoroughly enjoyed it - hopefully, they make another game soon!

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46 points

As a side note, EA has basically locked me out of my entire library and I gave up trying to fix it. Terrible launcher.

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21 points

One of my games, you have to open twice (once to crash, twice to launch correctly).

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10 points

Sometimes more than twice. I just keep launching until I can eventually play my game. 60% of the time it works every time.

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4 points

It was doing this with unravel two. Then some day out of nowhere it started working and we could finally play it. I’m not buying anything with that launcher again.

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3 points

Add it to the list of platforms I won’t buy from.

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Fuck EA btw
Fuck those greedy customer-hostile profit-extracting bastards

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28 points

My wife found out about The Elephant Scene and refused to ever play it as long as she lives

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15 points

Yeah… that was a fun surprise for us.

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8 points

Was it fun though? Or was it awful?

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Man I really like the scene for it’s dark humor but it’s so hard to watch, lol.

Game overall is fantastic though! Definitely good with a significant other.

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9 points

Yeah, that part was a distinct bum note in an otherwise enjoyable game. Why the developers thought it was good idea, I’ll never know.

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Thanks for the explanation, although I don’t find it a particularly acceptable one. The sequence wasn’t funny enough to justify the dramatic shift in tone in an otherwise family-friendly game, IMO. Also, making the protagonists unlikable in a game where you’re supposed to find them sympathetic is a very weird design decision.

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My daughter and I were really mad about this. She wanted us to quit the game. I don’t think it’s really funny or useful to the story either. Still a really fun game.

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1 point

Yeah, I absolutely get the anger. My wife in particular hates cruelty to animals, fictional, plush, or otherwise, so it’s a line she refuses to cross. That’s a totally fair outlook

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27 points

Interesting, I wonder how they wiggled out from the ea app requirement and if any other EA games have a chance.

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13 points

this is what I was honestly most excited about.

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