We are not exactly certain how Naughty Dog intended The Last of Us: Part I’s PC release to turn out. It’s having to put out fire after fire from people on social media instead of happy tweets and lovely Picture Mode dumps. Technically speaking, the PC options are allegedly a disaster, as seen by the more than 4,000 “mainly unfavorable” user evaluations that have been consistently posted on Steam. Yet, for the coder, this trending tweet feels like the undesired icing on top. Anyone may use it as a punchline to illustrate how broken the PC version is. As freelance writer Kyle Campbell has illustrated here, Joel has undoubtedly experienced better times on Steam.

Joel Last of Us on Steam Deck is SENDING me pic.twitter.com/TUq1F0zPEa

— Kyle Campbell (@Levit0) March 29, 2023

It’s not exactly the viewpoint Joel will want for future selfies, although we don’t know if the character model appears this way for the entire game. The end of the world has affected him more than usual, as evidenced by his facial hair, which appears to last for days. A truly sad sight. Let’s hope that he has some better days ahead of him. Of course, if you’re playing the game on a powerful computer, Joel doesn’t look like this. Nonetheless, you’d want to assume the port would look at least a little bit better than this because The Last of Us: Part I was even touted with the Steam Deck in a promotional advertisement. Naughty Dog has asked PC customers to submit support queries on its website via Twitter in order to collect comments and identify the problems with this specific version. The developer will want to address these issues right away because they ran flawlessly on the PS5. Many complaints lament frequent crashes, shader problems, and generally subpar performance. Instead of just being a straightforward version that runs on the personal computer, the studio even went so far as to refer to this transfer as being “for PC.” As a result, anticipate thick, quick flows of patches.