Humble's Sci-Fi Bundle Is a Steam Deck Stress Test

Crysis has been the go-to “but can it run” punchline since 2007, and Humble just bundled the remastered trilogy into a sci-fi package alongside Ghostrunner, Ghostrunner 2, and RoboCop: Rogue City. On a desktop with a discrete GPU that’s a nostalgia trip. On a Steam Deck running at 15W, it’s four separate arguments about what “playable” means — and the games land in wildly different places.

The bundle is live now — one of the better handheld deals right now — and Humble’s tiered structure means you can pay for the lowest tier and still walk away with a stack of Deck-friendly shooters. What you should actually care about is the performance spread, because two of these games are close to free wins and two will have you crawling through the TDP slider at 11pm.

Crysis Remastered Still Bites: The 15W Reality Check

Start with the oldest and crankiest. Crysis Remastered is the outlier of its own trilogy — Saber Interactive’s 2020 overhaul kept the original’s punishing single-threaded CPU load and stacked modern lighting on top, and it’s the one entry that folds on Deck. Expect to live in the 30-40 FPS band at 800p with low settings and FSR doing heavy lifting, with the notorious jungle sections dragging you under that. Crysis 2 Remastered and Crysis 3 Remastered are far better behaved; both were always more console-shaped shooters, and the third game in particular is the one you’ll get closest to a locked 40 FPS on. If Crysis 3 is the reason you’re buying, you’re fine. If Crysis 1 is, temper it.

Ghostrunner is the mirror image. The original’s tight corridor parkour and short frame-time budget made it one of the cleaner 60 FPS experiences on the Deck, and Ghostrunner 2’s added bike sequences and bigger sightlines are the only thing that pulls it back down — expect a 40 FPS cap to be the smarter play there, and a genuinely great one, because the game’s one-hit-kill rhythm rewards consistency over raw frames. RoboCop: Rogue City is the wildcard: an Unreal Engine 5 title with heavy reconstruction and thick urban geometry, and by the track record of UE5 on Deck you should plan on 800p, low, FSR set to performance, and something in the 30 FPS range. It’s a slow, deliberate shooter, so that’s survivable rather than ideal.

Storage Math: 150GB of Sci-Fi Against Your Free Space

Here’s the part nobody puts in the trailer. Installing the full bundle is a serious investment in microSD or internal space — the three Crysis remasters alone run in the neighbourhood of 50-60GB depending on how the storefront packages them, Ghostrunner 2 is the chunkiest of the modern pair, and Rogue City’s asset density pushes it well past the 50GB mark. Budget somewhere north of 150GB for the set, which is a rounding error on a 1TB OLED and a genuine crisis on a 64GB or 256GB machine.

That reframes the value proposition. Buy the bundle, install Crysis 2 and 3 plus both Ghostrunner games on internal storage, and park Rogue City on a decent A2 microSD where its slower streaming matters least. The remasters are also the easiest games in the package to dip into for twenty minutes at a time, which is exactly the pattern Deck owners actually play in — and the reason a $15-ish bundle of games you’ll never finish still makes sense on a handheld. Grab it, but go in knowing which installs you’re keeping and which ones are library decoration.