Qvadriga Reviews

Runs flawlessly on Steam Deck. I played a lot of this back on iOS before all the 32 bit apps got killed off. Delighted to report that it runs flawlessly on Steam Deck so I'm back in the game. Other than naming your team at the start, and optionally renaming any charioteers, everything is controlled with a single click at a time. It's perfectly viewable on the Deck screen, and when connected to an external display you can crank the resolution all the way up and it's still smooth as butter. Which is as it should be, for such a simple little game. The game itself is a strangely compelling turn-based chariot racing sim. It's not super deep, you just try and win races, get better horses and chariots, gain fame, and enter ever bigger races. But the moment to moment jockeying for position on the track, deciding when to go super-aggressive and when to hold back, is a simple pleasure where there's just nothing else like it out there. It looks basic, and in many ways it is basic, but it does its one thing so very well that coming back in to try and get your provincial team all the way up to the Circus Maximus in Rome is at times nailbitingly exciting. One bad turn taken too fast, your chariot overturning, and your star auriga getting run down by a rival charioteer can suddenly turn a good run bad. It's good, it's fun, it's unique.