Performance, battery life, necessity of squinting tested Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Sci-fi dadblaster Pragmata is Capcom’s second smooth-running RE Engine game in two months, dishing out loads of ray-traced frames on muscular PCs while still running at a decent clip if you don’t quite meet all of its minimum system specs. But what happens when you dip even lower, down towards the realm of shared RAM and integrated graphics in which the Steam Deck resides? That’s mostly fine too. Probably didn’t need the dramatic buildup, did it. Much like its befringed cousin, Resident Evil Requiem , Pragmata’s slickness on desktop may not translate perfectly onto the much more frugal innards of Valve’s handheld PC ; expect to spend more time around 30fps than 60, even with the custom settings I’ve worked out below. But it’s playable, without the need for any control tweaks or Proton compatibility wrangling, to the extent that it’s already won Steam Deck Verified status.…