The two titles mentioned are friendly platformers with fun storylines and easy-to-learn mechanics. Neither has death, or having to restart any levels, or the loss of items you’ve acquired, or much in the way of enemies. The challenge is in figuring out the puzzles and collecting some items, it’s not too much to do with mastering wonky split platforms with complicate jump sequences and there’s no inventory management. They aren’t overly simple, but they aren’t brutal I guess is what I’m saying. If you know of any similar type games available through Steam, that play perfectly on the Deck, I’d love to hear about them.

I hated Yooka-Laylee.

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