Game of the Week: Ruiner
This dystopian twin-stick top-down slasher/shooter is the perfect, simple game for playing on the Steam Deck.

Certain media suits specific screen sizes. Some TVs now rotate vertically to play TikTok videos, but everyone knows they belong on your smartphone. Conversely, there’s a whole subgenre of online jokes about watching Christopher Nolan on the smallest, worst screens possible because his films need IMAX. I share the old-fashioned view that, though you can watch a movie at home, you haven’t truly seen it unless you’re seeing it in a cinema.
The same is true of video games. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a big third-person shooter with grand detailed landscapes, and therefore it feels wrong to play it on anything other than the biggest screen possible; the same is true of a roaming racing game like Forza 4. This gave me a challenge as I’ve been using a Steam Deck OLED at the moment — Valve’s Windows-game-compatible competitor to the Nintendo Switch — and though it can play both aforementioned games, it’s best suited for smaller, more intimate titles that suit the Deck’s 7.4-inch screen. These are the titles I’ll be highlighting in further editions of this series, and the first is a 2017 top-down twin-stick shooter/brawler from Reikon Games, Ruiner.
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