This is quite interesting, it seems Valve are actually doing some more curating on their store now ahead of the SteamOS launch.
A user on reddit posted about ~35 titles having their SteamOS icons vanish. To quote the user:
I've checked myself, and I can see that Ticket to Ride, Anodyne, Lume, WAKFU, Starbound, Evoland, Oniken, StarMade and Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten have had their icons removed. I'm not sure what other games have seen the change, as that's a lot of games to go through to find out.
I spoke with the developer of StarMade who said this:
I spoke with other developers, but some are still looking into why, and some asked me not to mention them here.
It makes perfect sense, you wouldn't want a new SteamOS user to find out a game that advertised SteamOS support needed some outside launcher/installer for something like adobe air, or flash or anything else that needs a fair bit of manual interaction not directly possible in the SteamOS interface.
I guess the minor issue for us here, is that people on desktop Linux can't get these games on Steam now, but they do still show in my library, and are installable. It's probably a good thing though, as it means any game with a SteamOS icon should install on desktop Linux without the hassle of hunting down extra's. I wonder how far this will go though? Will they remove all games that have a launcher that doesn't work in fullscreen? It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
They aren't removing the games from your library, so let's not go ringing alarm bells. However, I did say a long time ago I was worried about SteamOS becoming separated from Linux and people thought Valve wouldn't do it, I thought they wouldn't, but this could be the start for all we know. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
A user on reddit posted about ~35 titles having their SteamOS icons vanish. To quote the user:
QuoteMy last three data points are:
25/09/15 - 1521 games
09/10/15 - 1555 games
16/10/15 - 1535 games
I've checked myself, and I can see that Ticket to Ride, Anodyne, Lume, WAKFU, Starbound, Evoland, Oniken, StarMade and Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten have had their icons removed. I'm not sure what other games have seen the change, as that's a lot of games to go through to find out.
I spoke with the developer of StarMade who said this:
@gamingonlinux It is because the game requires Java. When the new launcher comes out this should be resolved!
— StarMade (@star_made) October 17, 2015
I spoke with other developers, but some are still looking into why, and some asked me not to mention them here.
It makes perfect sense, you wouldn't want a new SteamOS user to find out a game that advertised SteamOS support needed some outside launcher/installer for something like adobe air, or flash or anything else that needs a fair bit of manual interaction not directly possible in the SteamOS interface.
I guess the minor issue for us here, is that people on desktop Linux can't get these games on Steam now, but they do still show in my library, and are installable. It's probably a good thing though, as it means any game with a SteamOS icon should install on desktop Linux without the hassle of hunting down extra's. I wonder how far this will go though? Will they remove all games that have a launcher that doesn't work in fullscreen? It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
They aren't removing the games from your library, so let's not go ringing alarm bells. However, I did say a long time ago I was worried about SteamOS becoming separated from Linux and people thought Valve wouldn't do it, I thought they wouldn't, but this could be the start for all we know. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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TacoDeBoss Oct 17, 2015
So now I'm never going to know what games work for Linux and what don't? F**king superb.
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psycho_driver Oct 17, 2015
Quoting: lucinosI was playing these days Anodyne (on linux of course) and I was wondering why there was no steamos icon.
Anodyne plays fine on me but I remember I had to follow instructions from the arch wiki.
I've had Anodyne in my library forever and have never played it from Steam because Air won't install without gnome-keyring or kwallet on the system. Those are silly requirements to get a game running.
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psycho_driver Oct 17, 2015
Quoting: gojulThey also should remove System Shock 2, which has not been working for ages (detected as a virus at launch, lol...)
Just checked and it's working alright for me.
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psycho_driver Oct 17, 2015
Quoting: raonlinuxQuoting: GuestBoth Evoland and Defender’s Quest are in my “doesn’t work” category on Steam… So it’s a good thing they removed the icon for them. (And I don’t use SteamOS.)I agree with the evoland game it happen the same to me.
Evoland is also working ok for me . . . Defender's Quest does appear to be broken, but I don't have it listed in that category so it would have worked around the time I bought it.
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Quoting: dubigrasuQuoting: GuestWell, it doesn't work with SteamOS BPM indeed, but is still working if you switch to desktop mode and start the regular desktop client.Quoting: JoZ3Games from my library with the steam icon removedWTF? This game works perfectly (on Arch Linux at least) and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t use Flash… (which means I’m not sure but I really doubt it because it’s perfect.)
- Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
The game from Artifex Mundi never worked for me, always crash in start screen, I'm using Manjaro x64 with the latest catalyst drivers. I will try as you say...
Pd. the game now works, accidentally found the solution, change my sound profile 7.1 to 5.1 and now run fine
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I understand it for Evoland (and probably "games" like Settlers Online), it is a pure Flash game, and only works out of the box on Ubuntu systems with Google Chrome 32-bit installed.
For the others it's back to editing the configuration file to point to a (manually downloaded in some cases) 32-bit libpepflashplayer.so, so indeed not very Big Picture-user friendly! Plus I am not sure SteamOS is allowed integrate Google Chrome directly.
I'm all for quality control here from Steam, especially as we can still download and tweak and play the faulty games! I completed Evoland, but I was disappointed about its Linux "support"
For the others it's back to editing the configuration file to point to a (manually downloaded in some cases) 32-bit libpepflashplayer.so, so indeed not very Big Picture-user friendly! Plus I am not sure SteamOS is allowed integrate Google Chrome directly.
I'm all for quality control here from Steam, especially as we can still download and tweak and play the faulty games! I completed Evoland, but I was disappointed about its Linux "support"
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Johan Lejonborn Oct 17, 2015
This is great! Valve finally doing som quality assurance on Linux-games. I really hope they apply the same testing to new releases as it has become a necessity to check the community hub on every game on Steam before buying to see if there are any game breaking bugs for the Linux-version.
If they at least check that the game works as intended and don't require any external libraries/software that's roughly half of my problems with Steam-games gone. Would be nice if they tested that Achievements work too, had a few games that did not register achievements in Linux.
Maybe the SteamOS-icon will actually mean that the game works on Linux instead of meaning that the developer thinks it works on Linux. My guess is that they've had som seriously negative feedback with games not working on SteamOS and have finally done something about it with 4 weeks to go until Steam Machines hit retailers, users and reviewers.
If they at least check that the game works as intended and don't require any external libraries/software that's roughly half of my problems with Steam-games gone. Would be nice if they tested that Achievements work too, had a few games that did not register achievements in Linux.
Maybe the SteamOS-icon will actually mean that the game works on Linux instead of meaning that the developer thinks it works on Linux. My guess is that they've had som seriously negative feedback with games not working on SteamOS and have finally done something about it with 4 weeks to go until Steam Machines hit retailers, users and reviewers.
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Ignore this. I'm an idiot and replied to an old post. 
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