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Cleared Hot is one of my go-to games for some good-natured destruction, featuring an awesome arcade helicopter experience. It launched last year to an overwhelmingly positive reception so far, and the long-awaited Chapter 1b update has a release date. It releases on March 17, and with some new content to the game, it will also come with big performance gains on the Steam Deck.

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The Chapter 1b update is still in development, but new features include the second part of the story campaign, Arcade missions in the hangar for replayable challenges, and a brand new water system to go with the revamped physics for the bridge destruction missions.

Steam Deck support is another big feature of the patch, bringing a native build, optimizations to the destruction physics, a new render scale setting, and tons of bugs and fixes. While Cleared Hot is already pretty great on the Steam Deck, this is great news for us.

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Cleared Hot is $14.99 on Steam and is Steam Deck Verified.

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Michael Baker
As a British guy in his mid-thirties, Michael has played and reviewed games as long as he can remember. Narrative Designer at Grimlore Games 2019-2020 (Spellforce 3 franchise, Plarium Games 2023 as Lore Editor). His favourite game genres are strategy, RPG, simulation and RTS.
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