I played Evoland 1 many years ago on iphone and it was a short game. I had a similar expectation for Evoland 2 and I was apparently wrong. Evoland 2 is a full-scale JRPG game with at least 25 hours of contents. There are many familiar faces and mechanism in the game. It's recommended for any one with a lot of gaming experiences. The story is not bad either.

Achievements in the game are not easy. There are a lot of collection achievements and many of them are well hidden. For both games, you can get back to the game to collect missed items after the ending so no worry on missed achievements. Evoland 1 has about 5 hours of contents and Evoland 2 can take about 30 hours for full collections. Both game only need one run for all achievements.

Both games run smoothly on steam deck. However, in Evoland 1 I did encounter a case that a story related achievement did not pop when meeting the condition. My suspicion is that there's something to do with the deck's sleep function, but I cannot confirm. After that, I restarted the game and refrained from using the sleep function and no more issues on achievement popping.