Valve slipped a sneaky tease for Genshin Impact on Steam at the end of the Tokyo Game Show. The brief glimpse at the anime RPG from HoYoverse running on Steam’s handheld Steam Deck console showed up for just a few seconds at the end of a stream focused on Square Enix’s Forspoken, which YouTuber Komodo posted online.
The clip advertises the Steam Deck and shows units with different versions of the Steam library screen. One highlights Remedy’s popular game Control, while another shows Stardew Valley and Supergiant’s roguelike game Hades.
All of these are currently playable on Steam, which makes the lone Steam Deck showing Genshin Impact’s opening load screen stand out – even more than it already stands out, sat on a higher pedestal as it is.
The smash-hit RPG is currently only playable on mobile devices, PS4 and PS5, and PC via the Epic Games Store. Anyone who wants to play it on Steam is out of luck, though Steam Deck users can install the Epic Games Store on the portable device.
What makes the potential of Genshin Impact on Steam even more of a surprise is HoYoverse’s recent silence on efforts to continue porting the game to other platforms. After it launched on the Epic Game Store, HoYoverse made no direct promise that it would eventually release on Steam. The status of Genshin Impact’s Nintendo Switch port, however, is still currently unknown.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
