What a confident, well-made sequel. I sort of struggled to the end of Remnant 1 but I could see that they were going for, and with the sequel they have largely fixed the problems that a solo player would have (especially with certain bosses) which leaves 20 hours or so of extremely fun shooting, once you pick up a good gun.

The thing that really got me, though, was the realisation that with the way the levels worked you were only intended to see about half of the game’s areas in one run through. At a time when it feels like there are so many games trying their absolute best to snow you under with objectives and quests, having a game actually keep stuff back to keep the game’s pace up took me by surprise. For a game that wasn’t even released at full price, it really punches above its weight.

Steam Deck report - you can convince it to get to 30 but I wouldn’t; I had the most fun playing with keyboard and mouse because fundamentally it’s a shooter.