Before booting up Zexion on my Steam Deck last weekend, I made a grievous error: I looked it up on YouTube and saw that someone had finished the game in three hours. Did I immediately intuit, as someone well-versed in the sicko behavior of gaming speedrunners, that three hours was probably a really fast clear time for this indie game with its throwback 8-bit graphics that includes its own built-in randomizer? Of course not...
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Exhausted by Silksong? This breezier twin-stick spin on old school Metroid might just be the genre's second best this year
Source: PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)