Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not

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Downgraded to "playable" over a month later.

Spider-Man 2 screenshot
(Image credit: Insomniac Games)

In mid-February, the pretty dang buggy PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 got upgraded to Verified status on the Steam Deck. It was a few weeks after its first major patch, which brought some badly-needed stability and UI fixes, as well as auto-save backups.

Players were skeptical, to put it simply, because it just barely worked on the Steam Deck in the first place. You could hover around 30 fps, but you had to tweak it a lot, and it just wasn't very stable.

Either way, port developer Nixxes is still hard at work on patches to address the graphical and performance issues. The most recent update—Patch 8—just released this week. It includes such beautiful gems of patch note wording as "improved performance in areas with trees."

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Jonathan Bolding
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Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.

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