Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC makes me excited for Sony games again

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When I got my review code for the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, I was about to leave for a weeklong vacation. Normally, that would be bad news. With no gaming laptop, I’d have to wait until I got back home to test it out, before rushing out some impressions in a few days. But that wasn’t the case this time. In fact, the timing couldn’t have been better … thanks to my Steam Deck.

While the PC version of Insomniac’s hit superhero game comes with a list of flashy improvements, its Steam Deck verification status is the most exciting one. That meant that I could take a supersized open-world game on the go and casually poke away at it for minutes at a time, rather than sitting at my PS5 or PC for long sessions.

As it turns out, that’s the best way to play it — even if it means sacrificing some power to do so. While Marvel’s Spider-Man isn’t the first Sony game to hit Steam Deck by way of PC port, it reaffirms that this current era of flexible gaming is an especially perfect fit for Sony’s brand of big-budget open-world extravaganza. For the first time in years, I’m more excited for that brand of game than I am exhausted.

There’s a reason I’m more focused on how Spider-Man runs on Steam Deck instead of a powerful PC. Frankly, my PS5 already is a powerful PC. Sure, the PC version brings new features like ultrawide monitor compatibility and Nvidia DLSS support, but I don’t think most players who experienced it on PS5 will notice much of a difference even with the boosts. It would have been a more notable feat had the 2018 game not gotten polished for PS5 previously.

Rather than replaying the game at my rig, I decided to spend more time with it in a portable setting. I kicked back on a recliner at a beach house and