Aperture Desk Job has been revealed by Valve and it is a new game set in the Portal universe. Aperture Desk Job has been designed for Valve’s new handheld the Steam Deck in a way to introduce players to the basic functions of the platform. And it will be free to download. Glados is not the character that will be interacting with you though. Instead, another character called Grady has been assigned to monitor your progress at this job.
The description for Aperture Desk Job reads: “Desk Job reimagines the been-there-done-that genre of walking simulators and puts them in the lightning-spanked, endorphin-gorged world of sitting still behind things. You play as an entry-level nobody on their first day at work— your heart full of hope and your legs full of dreams, eager to climb that corporate ladder. But life’s got other plans, and they all involve chairs. Playable on the Steam Deck, Desk Job walks you through the handheld’s controls and features, while not being nearly as boring as that sounds.”
Aperture Desk Job is going to be available from March 1st. The Steam Deck began shipping on February 25th. The handheld has a 7″ touchscreen and a pair of touchpads in addition to all the thumbsticks, face buttons and more that you’d expect. It’s built on AMD’s latest chipsets, offering decent PC gaming performance in a compact form factor. While it can run Windows, the default system is the Linux-based SteamOS 3.0, using Proton to run Windows games without modification. Valve recently announced Dynamic Cloud Sync, a new API and method to allow for syncing save files while games are still open on a sleeping Steam Deck, letting you quickly resume the game on another system. Originally meant to ship in late 2021, Valve were forced to delay the release until February 2022, citing more difficulties with the global supply chain than they had originally factored in for their original announcement.
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