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Both God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn are coming to Steam finally, but they will annoyingly require a PlayStation Network Account despite being single-player games.

This means players in various regions where the PSN is not supported will not be able to purchase and play either of them, just like the issue with Helldivers 2 and Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT.

Sony haven't said specifically if either of them will have that fancy new PlayStation Overlay like Tsushima has, as their Steam pages only mention the PSN account requirement, which may be good news for Steam Deck / Linux players since the new PlayStation Overlay is not supported in Proton yet. For comparison, the Tsushima store page does clearly note it uses the PlayStation Overlay.

Valve didn't reply to my previous email asking about Proton and the PlayStation Overlay, so we'll just have to wait and see if Sony add it to these games and if Proton will ever support it.

God of War Ragnarök arrives on September 19th.

Ragnarök will come with NVIDIA RTX Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 3.7, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3.1 and Intel XeSS (Xe Super Sampling) 1.2. It will also support NVIDIA Reflex, proper ultra-wide resolutions, various controls customization, unlocked framerates and it will also include the God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla DLC in the purchase for no extra cost.

Until Dawn has no specific release date yet but it will be this year.

This one should be interesting, as the developers say it's actually being re-built in Unreal Engine 5:

Until Dawn has been rebuilt with the latest tools and techniques. New and improved animations build on the success of the original character performances. Characters, environments and VFX have been upgraded – all for a truly enhanced cinematic horror experience.

We use a broader cinematic tonal colour palette and new perspectives to make the story more nuanced and emotional. We’ve been brave enough to shine a light into the dark, unseen corners of Blackwood Mountain and added a third-person camera, which means you can now look behind the curtain of the original game, exploring enhanced and new locations with new interactions and collectables.

Incorporating a third-person camera and adding contextual character movement animations, the game now allows the player to really feel the experience of that fateful night.

Until Dawn’s sound has undergone a massive overhaul too, featuring a new score from legendary horror composer Mark Korven.

We’ve endeavoured to keep the fantastic narrative integratory of the original, but we have seized the opportunity to expand upon unexplored emotional parts of the story.

Both of their trailers are age-gated on YouTube, so no including them here.

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It appears that Sony didn't learn anything from the Helldivers drama. Requiring to login for a single player game is plain stupid and should be boycotted to hell.
TimeFreeze May 31
Well guess i will never buy another Sony game on PC ever again. Unless it gets released on GOG where the PSN crap will hopefully be stripped out of.
Linux_Rocks May 31
Pyrate May 31
Quoting: _MarsThe Helldivers boycott sure was effective.
I have friends that still can't buy the game due to the regional limitations. But everyone gave themselves a pat on the back after a single tweet and forgot about that immediately.

But hey, it's not like that was the main argument everyone was making, right?

It was the fleshlight they'd throw out after use, "think about the kids" energy.

Personally, I'm glad the games are "unavailable" for my region, not only would I not need to link my PSN account, I'll get to have the game for free! Service Issue and all that.
Nice it is coming to PC but yeah psn for a single player game no thanks. I've got their first one on gog - also ghosts of Tsushima on steam but only playing single player so no psn. 'Tis a shame.
Like someone else said I've also been building up my gog library even if I already 'own' it elsewhere - get the wishlist going and buy on special for example hollow knight half price this week - bam.
Quoting: Cylis_DragneelDid they not learn from the backlash when they did this to Helldivers?

They did; the lesson was not to do a brazen bait-and-switch again -- which is why they're announcing the PSN requirement upfront this time around.
CountVlad Jun 4
I've stopped buying games from companies that require an additional login. There's absolutely no reason for it when the game is bought on Steam. It's too much of a hassle wrestling with the launcher, especially when a problem with the launcher is sometimes the only thing stopping the game from running perfectly fine on Linux and there are more than enough enjoyable games out there that don't require an additional account.
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