Cute and amusing but terribly slight, even for a free half-hour "manage your expectations" hardware demo game.

Desk Job doesn't really teach you much about the Steam Deck or even give you good opportunities to mess around with it. It's also sadly not at all a job simulator sort of game; rather than being given engaging tasks to perform, you simply follow a few prompts to press specific buttons in sequence. What barely qualifies as gameplay here is executed repetitiously to fill out the time, and the whole experience is disappointingly on-rails and cinematic. Also, the encouraged use of gyroscopic aim is frustrating because the borders of the playing field are so limited and my calibration lost its center every time I angled into the frame and my movement stopped.

It is at least a pleasure, though, to revisit the world of Portal and to spend a little more time with Cave Johnson.