The Steam Deck library is huge, virtually innumerable, as extra video games proceed to make their option to Steam and platforms past. Regardless of the seemingly ever-increasing library for the hand held, Valve continues to do what it could actually to assist customers discover high quality experiences, with the corporate not too long ago hitting a brand new milestone.
The ‘Deck Verified’ compatibility program has confirmed invaluable because it first launched again in October 2021, a number of months after the Steam Deck itself. Maintained by Valve and moderated by the neighborhood, the ‘Verified’ and ‘Playable’ compatibility classes proceed to assist shine a light-weight on among the greatest Steam Deck video games on the market.
There are actually formally over 14,000 Steam Deck appropriate video games by Valve’s depend, based on the newest figures on SteamDB. Extra particularly, there are actually 9,416 ‘Playable’ video games with one other 4,607 ‘Verified’ making up the remainder, for a complete of 14,023 on the time of writing.
It’s taken Valve just below 29 months to get to this determine, not forgetting the three,924 video games the corporate has deemed unsupported, bringing the overall variety of video games it’s examined as much as 17,947 (that’s round 619 video games a month). Whereas this tempo is inarguably admirable, there’s nonetheless a option to go earlier than we even get near getting an official phrase on the 146,548 Home windows titles on Steam, a quantity that can solely proceed to develop.
This huge unknown will possible and understandably by no means be totally catalogued and explored however this after all doesn’t negate the worth the Deck Verified system provides to Steam Deck customers, and eventual Steam Deck 2 adopters. In truth, it’s a key a part of what makes the system distinctive within the face of rivals just like the ROG Ally, serving as a welcome guiding hand as you seek for that subsequent recreation to tackle the go.
Sure, the system isn’t as good, because the launch of Remnant 2 demonstrated and the variety of ‘Unsupported’ video games that do actually work on Steam Deck with a number of tweaks. Regardless of its imperfections, processes may be refined, as evidenced by the elevated variety of video games getting Steam Deck compatibility scores forward of launch fairly than sitting within the limbo of ‘Unknown’ for various lengths of time.
Fact be instructed, I’ll mourn the day Deck Verified involves an finish as these statistics are the results of consideration and care from testers from each inside Valve and the broader Steam Deck neighborhood. It’s this sense of communal contribution that makes the system probably the greatest handheld gaming PCs on the market, and this program is in some methods proof of that. Right here’s to the subsequent 14,000 and even simply 14 video games that make the minimize.
