Acid Nerve’s Death’s Door is playable on PS4 and PS5 and features a Crow, acting as a Grim Reaper, who harvests souls. After venturing to a realm where death doesn’t exist, you must gather several Great Souls to open Death’s Door. The isometric action-adventure title combines aspects of The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls for a challenging but fan experience.

Media Molecule’s Dreams is part video game and part creation suite, with tools for creating music, animations, cinematics and games. It’s only playable on PS4 but has received significant support, including new single-player campaigns. If that weren’t enough, the developer’s newest game, Tren, is also available.

Finally, there’s PGA Tour 2K23 for PS4 and PS5, which offers pro golf. It features the usual 2K Games tropes like MyPLAYER, but you can also learn Skills and use Archetypes to customize them. With Casual Mode, a Course Designer, and more, there’s a lot for fans to dive into.

Elden Ring

It’s easy to dismiss Elden Ring as little more than open-world Dark Souls. But it takes the sheer freedom of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and packs it with weapons, Incantations, Sorceries, armor, enemies, mini-bosses, side quests, lore and quirky characters. Elden Ring is a dense experience that goes from one spectacle to the next.

The first batch of games in those three categories has now been revealed (courtesy of SteamDB), and there are some interesting names in each list. The list of Unsupported games is a pretty short one with just 5 games, though it does have one notable name- Persona 4 Golden. The game’s own page says that Valve is still working on adding support though, so hopefully this won’t be permanent. 

24 games so far have the Playable tag. The list includes the likes of The Witcher 3, Slay the Spire, Inscryption, Subnautica, Valheim, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, NieR: Automata, Bravely Default 2, and more. That means that right now, these games are playable on the Steam Deck, but might still run into a few issues here and there. 

Finally, there’s the first batch of Steam Deck Verified games, which lists 38 titles right now and is already looking impressive. Games that have already been fully optimized for the upcoming handheld device include the likes of Portal 2, Celeste, Hollow Knight, Dishonored, Cuphead 2, Psychonauts 2, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Death’s Door, Death Stranding, Mad Max, Scarlet Nexus, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Hot Wheels Unleashed, the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 3, and many others. 

You can check out the full list of the Steam Deck’s Verified, Playable, and Unsupported games so far below.

The Steam Deck is scheduled to launch in February.

• Cyber Shadow (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Prison Architect (PC)
• Xeno Crisis (Cloud, Console, and PC)

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Coming off of the surprise release of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition for Xbox One and Game Pass, an image has been discovered for other upcoming Game Pass releases this month. It indicates that along with Rainbow Six Extraction and Nobody Saves the World, Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master and Death’s Door will be coming to the service in January.

Though an official announcement is pending from Microsoft, the image has been found hosted on the official Xbox News site. On top of this, other releases like Windjammers 2, Hitman Trilogy, Pupperazzi and Rainbow Six Siege have already been confirmed for Game Pass this month. Death’s Door will be available for both PC and console subscribers while also having cloud support.

Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master is coming to console and PC Game Pass subscribers with no cloud support. Whether both titles are coming to the service or not, expect an official reveal for the remaining Game Pass titles this month to happen very soon. Stay tuned in the meantime.

Halo Infinite Multiplayer

Yes, it’s technically a beta but Halo Infinite’s free to play multiplayer component is content-complete ahead of the campaign’s launch in December. And while much can be said about progression, the extensive monetization or the horrid Armor Cores system, the gameplay is simply exquisite. It plays like the perfect mix of Halo’s classic gun play and movement combined with solid power-ups (that aren’t overbearing) and weapon balance. Map design ranges from good to great, and the extensive polish is a sight to behold in light of the competition. There’s still a ways to go but in terms of fun, Halo Infinite’s multiplayer is already top-notch.

Death’s Door sees players playing as a crow that reaps the souls of the dead, with a structure defined by an overworld and dungeon-based progression similar to classic The Legend of Zelda titles. Within less than a week of its launch, the game had amassed over 100,000 players, and though updated figures haven’t been provided since then, developer Acid Nerve has said that the game’s success has exceeded all of its expectations.

In our review of Death’s Door, we awarded the game a score of 8/10, saying, “Even with a few issues, Death’s Door is a tightly designed, challenging game that does wonders with its classic Zelda-inspired formula.” You can read our full review through here.

At the recent State of Play, publisher Devolver Digital announced that Death’s Door will be launching for PS5 and PS4 in November. Shortly afterward, the publisher confirmed on Twitter that it’ll be launching for the Nintendo Switch as well.

On a PlayStation Blog post, Acid Nerve confirmed that the game will run in 60 FPS on the PS5, while it will also support the DualSense’s haptic feedback. From your attacks to even your movement, expect the feedback for all of it to reflect “the weight, speed, complexity, and feel of each impact”, as the developer puts it.

Death’s Door is currently available on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC, and will launch for PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on November 23.

In our review of the game, we awarded it a score of 8/10, saying, “Even with a few issues, Death’s Door is a tightly designed, challenging game that does wonders with its classic Zelda-inspired formula.” You can read our full review through here.

The critically acclaimed Death's Door swings open on PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on November 23! pic.twitter.com/ugwvOOrKbN

— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) October 27, 2021

Speaking to 9news, David Fenn – one half of the two-man team at Acid Nerve – said that the game’s success has met Acid Nerve’s “wildest expectations.”

“Nothing could’ve gone better,” Fenn said. “It’s kind of just our wildest expectations have been met.”

Acid Nerve’s Mark Foster went on to remark that Death’s Door being an Xbox console exclusive was part of the plan from the get go, and commented on its success despite the fact that it’s not available via Xbox Game Pass. “It was always Xbox exclusive, that was the plan from the very beginning,” Foster said. “It seems like people are actually willing to buy a game in 2021, which is a nice surprise.”

Of course, given Death’s Door nature as an indie game and the fact that it’s so heavily inspired by classic Zelda games, it goes without saying that there’s quite a lot of demand for the game on the Nintendo Switch. And while Acid Nerve has nothing to announce right now regarding any ports, the developer is aware of that.

“There’s no current plans we can announce today,” Fenn said, “but Switch is a very popular request for game developers these days.”

Currently, Death’s Door is available on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. You can read our review of the game through here.

Developer Acid Nerve recently took to Twitter to confirm that Death’s Door has already amassed over 100,000 players. The game launched less than a week ago, on July 20, so this is a pretty impressive milestone. This does not, of course, reflect the game’s sales, but it’s a notable accomplishment nonetheless.

Death’s Door is available now on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. In our review of the game, we awarded it a score of 8/10, saying, “Even with a few issues, Death’s Door is a tightly designed, challenging game that does wonders with its classic Zelda-inspired formula.” You can read our full review through here.

Over 100,000 players have stepped through Death’s Door in the first week!

Thank you so much for the support and love for our little crow. pic.twitter.com/6Pi6Py5ZUN

— ACIDNERVE / DEATH'S DOOR (@acidnerve) July 26, 2021

Death’s Door is the story of a crow, except this one reaps the souls of the dead. Everything is business as usual until one particular soul is stolen by a thief. It’s the crow’s job to retrieve it, even if it means traveling to a strange world where things never die.

Taking inspiration from old-school titles in The Legend of Zelda series, Death’s Door offers an isometric perspective with hack and slash combat. For more details on what makes the game so much fun, check out our official review here. It now remains to be seen whether it will release for other platforms like PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.