The Last of Us Part II Remastered gets a new way to play - chronologically

While the developers of The Last of Us Part II Remastered still suggest you play it the original way, now you can play it chronologically.

Originally and as the default, the game is told in a non-linear way with it mixing together various flashbacks and present-day story-lines. They said the structure of it is "very intentional and core to how our studio wanted Part II’s themes and narrative beats to impact players". This new mode instead sticks it all along a linear timeline so it flows a bit more naturally together that they believe "players will gain even deeper insight into Part II's narrative".

Available as a free update there's also UNCHARTED-themed skins of Joel and Tommy added as well, which you can unlock by playing the new Chronological mode.

Changelog:

• Added the new Chronological mode.
• Introduced UNCHARTED-themed skins for Joel and Tommy as reward for completing Chronological mode.
• Implemented achievements and trophies related to Chronological mode.
• Dynamic blood drips now appear as expected for higher framerates up to 160 FPS.
• Fixed an issue where dynamic blood drips would stop appearing upon restarting an encounter.
• Resolved an issue that stopped dynamic blood drips to appear when disabling the Full Screen Effects setting.
• Addressed a bug where animations of some gore effects were missing when using a finishing melee attack on human enemies.
• Hair and cloth movement physics now also function correctly at framerates above 100 FPS.
• Resolved an issue where the weapon HUD would occasionally not appear at a framerate of 80 FPS or higher.
• Fixed a bug that caused players to be unable to shoot with a bow on their first attempt after clicking "Restart Checkpoint" with the mouse.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Permadeath Completion or Speedrun Recap to not appear after completing the Story in Permadeath Mode or Speedrun Mode.
• Addressed a bug where the boat’s haptic feedback was missing during a cinematic of ‘The Island’ chapter.
• Added a new credits sequence specific to PC release.
• Various bug fixes related to ultrawide cinematics.
• Various localization text related updates and corrections.
• Various accessibility bug fixes.
• Stability improvements.
• Performance optimizations.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered is Steam Deck Verified and works on Desktop Linux with Proton.