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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/ScrumTumescent on 2025-08-06 15:23:37+00:00.

This game produces a strange effect I’ve never experienced before. Play for a good half hour or possibly one chapter at a time. Your eyes get used to the VGA style pixel art.

Then immediately play something with last Gen or higher visuals. Doesn’t matter. Could even just be browsing the UI. The Deck’s resolution and colors will seem luscious, vibrant, and futuristic even on the basic Steam store interface.

Once your eyes adjust to low res, suddenly bumping to high res (1200x800) looks incredible

It’s like being in a hot tub and immediately jumping into a pool, or vice versa. Or eating bland food for a week and then having a decadent, creamy pasta dish. I’ve never appreciated the Deck’s graphics more.

Note that The Drifter isn’t ugly. It’s stylized and a conscious throwback to 90’s PC graphic adventures. The game itself is pretty good (I’m half way though)

But I’m taking about the low-res / high res juxtaposition. I played Crash Bandicoot 4 immediately after and it looked like a Pixar movie. The Outer Worlds no longer looked like a last gen FPS. It was gorgeous. I suddenly didn’t care that I run at med/low settings to get 60 fps in it.

Has anyone else experienced this? Play an engrossing low-res game and jump into a AAA modern game. After an hour of The Drifter, I’m going to jump into something at 2k, 60 fps on my 70" HDTV and see how that goes. Try it!