Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice Steam Deck performance test

There is a lot of videos on YT with various games tested on Steam Deck. Most of them present the footage of the screen and how the game looks ON Steam Deck. Some people, however, use their Steam Deck as a desktop PC or a regular console. My tests intend to show how the game looks and performs on an external screen, in full HD (not in 4k for performance reasons) with certain scaling options.
Here is another test, this time something that, at least in my opinion, served as a technological presentation and project encompassing peculiar approaches, from story-telling and technical solutions to the very concept of the game. I usually play games with subtitles on, but bearing in mind the theme of the game (psychosis), I decided to turn off all the unnecessary text since the voices in this game play not only a narrative function but also serve as the "environment" of the game as such.
The game is marked as "verified" on Steam Deck and works perfectly fine and out-of-the-box. For some, the framerate range between 30-45 might seem "unplayable" nowadays but I think it works perfectly fine and I did not test the game at lower settings. The only settings I turned off and lowered are those specified at the beginning of the video. The FSR upscaling does a fantastic job and the game looks fantastic on an OLED tv with the Steam Deck set to FHD.
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