Valve has surprise-released a new free-to-play game, and I guarantee it’s nothing you were expecting. Valve has said they’re going to be focusing on making games that will play well on their new Steam Deck for a while, and it seems like Aperture Desk Job fits the bill. As the title implies, the “playable short” casts players as an Aperture drone and presents a variety of things you can interact with from the comfort of the office chair. See, the Steam Deck is portable, but Valve’s first designed-for-Deck game doesn’t let you move. Get it? Anywho, you can check out a teaser, below.
Here’s a bit more detail about Aperture Desk Job…
The first Steam Deck units should be shipping today. Wccftech’s Kai Powell found the platform promising, if still early in its evolution in some ways, in his full review…
- Not Portal 3! - Lower your expectations: This is not a sequel to Portal. Now get ready to raise them slightly, because it is in the expanded universe of those games. Desk Job puts you squarely in the driver’s seat at Aperture Science. Then quickly removes the driving part and adds a desk in front of the seat.
- Steam Deck: A Desk For Your Hands - Up until now, real life mostly involved sitting, and video games were the virtual fantasy world you could escape to. With the portable Steam Deck, we flipped that, freeing your body to run marathons and jump out of planes while your brain simulates all the sitting you used to do.
Aperture Desk Job arrives on Steam (which Steam Deck being the optimal way to play) on March 1.
