I bought a Steam Deck recently. It is a very well crafted device and that goes for both the hardware and the Linux distribution it runs. Within a few hours I had sampled the following puzzle games:

- Portal 2: simple, physical world logic puzzles with excellent script and graphics.

- Stephen’s Sausage Roll: incredibly hard physical world logic puzzles with awful graphics but it’s part of the style and I love it.

- The Case of the Golden Idol: interactive mystery fiction logic puzzles with even worse graphics that, again, are part of the charm.

- Python 3: text based open world logic puzzles with no graphics whatsoever and some of the most fun I’ve ever had on a computer.

(Edit: for clarity this is a humorous anecdote in that the last “game” on my list is a fully fledged programming language, in line with the original article’s thesis that programming can be viewed as being an excellent computer game. I genuinely had my steam deck for all of a few hours before I was using it write primes.py ;)