Seems Valve has now properly started verifying games ahead of the Steam Deck launch, with a bunch of titles now verified ready to play so let's take a look. The list can be seen on SteamDB.
The list is expanding, and we expect obviously a great many more to be noted as verified before the Steam Deck begins launching by the end of February.
- APE OUT
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Castle Crashers
- Celeste
- Circuit Superstars
- Cuphead
- DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
- DARK SOULS™ III
- Death's Door
- Death Stranding
- Dishonored
- Final Fantasy
- Guacamelee! 2
- Gunfire Reborn
- HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™
- Hollow Knight
- Into the Breach
- Mad Max
- Manifold Garden
- Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
- Noita
- Portal 2
- Psychonauts 2
- RAD
- Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- Risk of Rain 2
- Rogue Legacy 2
- SCARLET NEXUS
- Sable
- Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice
- Super Mega Baseball 3
- Tetris® Effect: Connected
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- The Messenger
- Total War: WARHAMMER II
- Tunche
- Webbed
It's a mixture of native Linux games and Windows builds relying on Steam Play Proton. Not being on the list doesn't mean they won't run, as Valve does have very specific criteria that games need to hit to be officially verified. It might be a case of text being too small on the screen stopping them, which no doubt mods will come out to help with that on some games that no longer see developer support.
There's a few games that are already placed into the "Playable" category like War Thunder which has too small text and the launcher being a nuisance, RimWorld needing a manual invoking of the on-screen keyboard for some text input, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt having too small text and so on.
Want to check out the newer Steam store Tablet Mode? It will actually show the Deck Verified symbols and on store pages there's a whole new Steam Deck compatibility section that you can bring up like so:
To do so it's easy enough in Firefox. Simply open a tab with the Steam store and hit CTRL+SHIFT+M. From there you need to add a new device by selecting the dropdown list that will usually say "Responsive" by default. From there hit "Edit list" and set a name of "Steam Deck" (or anything really), set user agent string to "Valve Steam Gamepad" and a resolution of "910 x 568". Then select it after saving, and refresh and you will get the Tablet Mode.
In other news, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed on Twitter that shipping fees are included in Steam Deck purchases which will hopefully settle a few minds about it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: EikeDo you have a link for the other Steam Deck categories as well?None that I've found. SteamDB don't have one setup for it yet it seems, the other titles that are in Playable I found simply by scrolling the store in tablet mode.
- All verified games: https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=530&operator=1&keyvalue=%22category%22%3A%223%22
- All playable games: https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=530&operator=1&keyvalue=%22category%22%3A%222%22
- All not working games: https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=530&operator=1&keyvalue=%22category%22%3A%221%22
Edit:
Now you can use instant search to get a list with images. Go to: https://steamdb.info/instantsearch/ click "Platforms" and choose if you want verified, playable or unsupported.
Last edited by Jpxe on 20 January 2022 at 5:43 pm UTC
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Quoting: JpxsonHere's how to sort on SteamDB:
Thanks!
Requires to be signed in, but that's ok for me.
How could I have found these myself?
Quoting: EikeHow could I have found these myself?
Not sure, I got one of them from SteamDB's Discord channel and then guessed the rest.
Quoting: JpxsonHere's how to sort on SteamDB:You are too powerful.
- All verified games: https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=530&operator=1&keyvalue=%22category%22%3A%223%22
- All playable games: https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=530&operator=1&keyvalue=%22category%22%3A%222%22
- All not working games: https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app_keynames&type=-1&keyname=530&operator=1&keyvalue=%22category%22%3A%221%22
Quoting: EhvisI wonder which Mad Max was "verfied". Native standard, native vulkan-beta or proton.
Cannot be something different from what you get by default IMHO.
Quoting: EikeQuoting: EhvisI wonder which Mad Max was "verfied". Native standard, native vulkan-beta or proton.
Cannot be something different from what you get by default IMHO.
While I think that's likely true for these titles, it's not actually strictly the case in general; it would be what you get by default on the Steam Deck.
If developers put up a depot of lower-res textures for use on devices with small screens, the Deck can be given that automatically, and the old Proton whitelist has been replaced by automatically applying options listed in the manifest of general games. So the version that you get by default on the Steam Deck (which is the version that will have verification testing) isn't necessarily the same as the version that you'd get by default on any other Linux machine.
In most cases they'll be the same, because no one wants extra work and Valve want to show with the Deck that Linux is a viable gaming platform, but they won't necessarily be the same in all cases.
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