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520 games are now rated either Verified or Playable for Steam Deck

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As we hit less than two weeks until the Steam Deck launch on February 25, Valve appear to be doing well on the testing front with 520 games now either fully Verified or Playable.

Each day now a good bunch seem to trickle in together. At this rate of progress per-day, we're perhaps going to see close to 1,000 either Verified or Playable by launch. That is, unless this is all still early testing of their processes and we might see a bigger bump closer to launch which is entirely possible. Either way, it's already a rather nice number. The amount only tells so much though, quality over quantity of course and there's a lot of good picks already.

The totals currently are 309 Verified, 211 Playable and 60 Unsupported. Two days ago there were only 243 Verified!

Here's the current Verified list at time of writing:

8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
A traveler's photo album
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
APE OUT
Aeterna Noctis
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
American Truck Simulator
Amnesia: Rebirth
Automobilista 2
Babble Royale
Bayonetta
BeamNG.drive
Before We Leave
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Bloons TD 6
Blue Fire
Boomerang X
Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
CarX Drift Racing Online
Carto
Cat Quest
Cat Quest II
Caveblazers
Chernobylite
Chorus
Circuit Superstars
Clue/Cluedo: The Classic Mystery Game
Cookie Clicker
Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy
Crush Crush
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Curse of the Dead Gods
Cyber Hook
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
DARK SOULS™ III
DEATH STRANDING
DEATHLOOP
DOOM II
DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition
DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Digital Edition of Light
Dark Deity
Darksiders Genesis
Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
Daymare: 1998
Dead Estate
Death Trash
Death's Door
Deep Rock Galactic
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
Demon Turf
Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder
Devil May Cry 5
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
DmC: Devil May Cry
Don't Starve Together
Drawful 2
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Dyson Sphere Program
ELDERBORN
ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition
Eastward
Edge Of Eternity
Everhood
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Evoland
Evoland 2
FIGHT KNIGHT
FINAL FANTASY
FINAL FANTASY II
FINAL FANTASY III
FINAL FANTASY IV
FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED
Factorio
Fallout Shelter
Fantasy Blacksmith
Farm Together
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake)
Fire Pro Wrestling World
Firewatch
Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator
Five Nights at Freddy's
Football, Tactics & Glory
Fox Hime Zero
GRID
GRIME
Gang Beasts
Gas Station Simulator
Genital Jousting
Ghost Exorcism INC.
Ghostrunner
Graveyard Keeper
Griftlands
Grim Clicker
Guacamelee! 2
Gunfire Reborn
HITMAN™
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™
HUNTDOWN
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Happy's Humble Burger Farm
Haven
Heave Ho
Heavenly Bodies
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Hellish Quart
Hentai Bad Girls
Hentai Girl Hime
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
Human: Fall Flat
ISEKAI QUEST
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
Idle Wasteland
Inscryption
Into the Breach
Intravenous
It Takes Two
Journey To The Savage Planet
Jump King
Katamari Damacy REROLL
Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense
Kitaria Fables
LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4
LEGO® Jurassic World
LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes
LET IT DIE
LIMBO
Last Evil
Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game
Life is Strange 2
Life is Strange 2 - Episode 2
Life is Strange Remastered
Little Nightmares II
Littlewood
Loop Odyssey
Luck be a Landlord
MADNESS: Project Nexus
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
MO:Astray
Mad Max
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!
Manifold Garden
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
Mega Man 11
Metal Unit
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
Minoria
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition
Mortal Shell
Muck
MudRunner
Muv-Luv (マブラヴ)
Muv-Luv Alternative (マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ)
NEKOPARA Extra
NEKOPARA Vol. 0
NGU IDLE
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nidhogg
Nobody Saves the World
Noita
Nuclear Throne
OCTOPATH TRAVELER™
Okami HD
Orcs Must Die! 3
Ori and the Blind Forest
Outer Wilds
Overcooked! 2
PAYDAY 2
Paint the Town Red
Paradise Killer
Pathologic 2
PictoQuest
Pit People®
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Poly Bridge 2
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Prey
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
Project CARS 3
Project Warlock
Psychonauts
RAD
RIDE 4
Realm Grinder
Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
Redout: Enhanced Edition
Remnant: From the Ashes
Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari - Love For Hire
RimWorld
Ring of Pain
River City Girls
Rocket League®
Rogue Legacy 2
Roundguard
Ryse: Son of Rome
Röki
SCARLET NEXUS
STEINS;GATE
SUPERHOT
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Sable
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Sakura Clicker
Sam & Max Save the World
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Seed of the Dead: Sweet Home
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Session: Skateboarding Sim Game
Shadow Man Remastered
Shining Resonance Refrain
Shop Titans
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
Siralim Ultimate
Slay the Spire
Slime Rancher
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
Sonic Generations Collection
Spelunky 2
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Stick Fight: The Game
Strange Horticulture
Styx: Master of Shadows
Subnautica
Supaplex
Super Meat Boy Forever
Super Mega Baseball 3
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
Super Robot Wars 30
Supraland Six Inches Under
THE GAME OF LIFE 2
THE KING OF FIGHTERS '98 ULTIMATE MATCH FINAL EDITION
THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION
TSIOQUE
TY the Tasmanian Tiger
Tales of Arise
Tap Wizard 2
Tetris® Effect: Connected
The Banner Saga
The Beast Inside
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
The Evil Within
The Falconeer
The Forest
The Jackbox Party Pack
The Jackbox Party Pack 2
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
The Jackbox Party Pack 7
The Jackbox Party Pack 8
The LEGO® Movie - Videogame
The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game
The Lands of Eldyn
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
The Messenger
The Room 4: Old Sins
The Room Three
The Sexy Brutale
The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
Timberborn
Titanfall® 2
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®
Tomb Raider
Travellers Rest
Treasure of Nadia
Tricky Towers
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
Tunche
Twelve Minutes
UNSIGHTED
UnderMine
Unpacking
Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
Until We Die
Untitled Goose Game
Valheim
Valkyria Chronicles™
WHAT THE GOLF?
WORLD OF HORROR
WWE 2K19
West of Dead
West of Loathing
What Remains of Edith Finch
Windjammers 2
Wytchwood
Yakuza 3 Remastered
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yoku's Island Express
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Your Chronicle
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
art of rally
tModLoader
古剑奇谭三(Gujian3)
战地指挥官/Battleboom

The big thing to remember is that any of this can change before launch, it's not a final list and games can be updated at any time to change their rating. That's true now and will be so after release.

For the Unsupported list, there's a few now noted due to the anti-cheat not supporting Linux / Proton like: Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and Back 4 Blood.

You can see the lists easily on the unofficial SteamDB:

Also, the useful ProtonDB website (also unofficial) that tracks Proton compatibility for the whole of Linux had some upgrades lately like a very handy Anti-Cheat list.

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slaapliedje Feb 13, 2022
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For comparison, that's more than were ever released for the N64 (~300) and the Nintendo Wii U (~150) put together. Pretty nice launch already! :D

393 for N64
783 for Wii U

From Wikipedia. Not sure how comparing to a game system released in 1996 makes much sense though. Totally different eras from economics, technically, and socially. A more reasonable comparison would be a more recent console, the Switch (4337), or Playstation 5 (465).

I still agree with you. At 309 Verified, it's still a very nice starting launch.
The Switch is a really great comparison, as I feel that outside of Nintendo's 1st party stuff, and a few 3rd party exceptions, most of its games are available on Linux already, especially with Proton on top, but a sizable chunk of them are native on Linux.
furaxhornyx Feb 13, 2022
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VERIFIED: 14 games (7.29%)
PLAYABLE: 14 games (7.29%)
UNSUPPORTED: 1 games (0.52%)
UNKNOWN: 163 games (84.9%)

The unsupported game being For Honor, and I think it was just when I tried the demo. Speaking of which, demos seems to be included as well, but some of them were installed just to find out if the game could run on Linux.

Also, some of the "unknown" games are native games, such as Albion Online, Carrion, Children of Morta, Don't Starve, Pine, etc.

Fun fact: Slay the Spire is only Playable, but not Verified, I wonder what's wrong, since I believe it was released on the Switch
kaiman Feb 13, 2022
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I've not that many games on Steam, but judging by the list plenty of my GOG library would work fine :-).

VERIFIED: 1 games (10.0%)
PLAYABLE: 2 games (20.0%)
UNSUPPORTED: 0 games (0.0%)
UNKNOWN: 7 games (70.0%)

Also a bit surprising to see games like Haven as verified that (to the best of my knowledge) still do not work with vanilla Wine. Hopefully more and more of these Proton improvements will trickle upstream, making gaming on Linux a better experience for everyone.
pete910 Feb 13, 2022
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Your 11,000 would be the number that were released just in 2021.

Lol,

So that actually makes the percentages hilariously low then !



0.008 %


They have some serious work to do
F.Ultra Feb 13, 2022
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Your 11,000 would be the number that were released just in 2021.

Lol,

So that actually makes the percentages hilariously low then !



0.008 %


They have some serious work to do

And 9900 of those 11k are asset flips so no one bothered to test them for deck compatibility ;-)

Almost all my games are listed as unknown even though they are 99% Linux native, and one is listed as not supported Halo: MCC even though it works fine in Proton, guess that since multiplayer does not work they decided to call it unsupported.
F.Ultra Feb 13, 2022
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For comparison, that's more than were ever released for the N64 (~300) and the Nintendo Wii U (~150) put together. Pretty nice launch already! :D

393 for N64
783 for Wii U

From Wikipedia. Not sure how comparing to a game system released in 1996 makes much sense though. Totally different eras from economics, technically, and socially. A more reasonable comparison would be a more recent console, the Switch (4337), or Playstation 5 (465).

I still agree with you. At 309 Verified, it's still a very nice starting launch.

Cheesus, they have already 4k+ titles for the Switch!?
CatKiller Feb 13, 2022
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They have some serious work to do
Yep. With a backlog of 64,000 games and about 28 new games released per day, if they could test 63 games each day then they could catch up within five years. But the rate of new games is increasing, so they'd need to do more than that. And some games are going to need multiple tests, so they'd need to do more still.

Realistically, there will be games that never get tested. But their own decision on which games to test first is influenced by the games that people who are interested in the Deck want to play, and game developers can request a test if the Deck market is of particular interest to them.
g000h Feb 13, 2022
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VERIFIED: 62 games (2.77%)
PLAYABLE: 60 games (2.68%)
UNSUPPORTED: 7 games (0.31%)
UNKNOWN: 2108 games (94.23%)

Noting that 1279 of the 2420 titles (games + dlc) are Linux native (or at least Proton whitelisted).
monyarm Feb 13, 2022
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The unsupported games are Insurgency, Persona 4 Golden and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.
pete910 Feb 13, 2022
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I have to ask, How are people comparing the verified games to their library? Or am I being thick
WorMzy Feb 13, 2022
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I have to ask, How are people comparing the verified games to their library? Or am I being thick
Check out the first comment by pg: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/520-games-are-now-rated-either-verified-or-playable-for-steam-deck/comment_id=219777


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pete910 Feb 13, 2022
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I have to ask, How are people comparing the verified games to their library? Or am I being thick
Check out the first comment by pg: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/520-games-are-now-rated-either-verified-or-playable-for-steam-deck/comment_id=219777

I kew that, was just testing!
rustybroomhandle Feb 13, 2022
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their own decision on which games to test first is influenced by the games that people who are interested in the Deck want to play

I know Valve said they have a data-driven approach to the order they'd be testing in, but the games in the current list seem often quite random. Either that or I have a very wrong idea of what's popular.
pete910 Feb 13, 2022
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Mines not great !

Although a lot are native of mine

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Guerrilla Feb 13, 2022
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It seems strange to me that Valve is validating all of these non-native games but seems to be skipping right over all the native ones. Certainly it would be faster to verify/mark playable native games, given that there's no need to be concerned with a game breaking.

/tin foil hat on

Sort of makes me think Valve would prefer developers to make games for Windows that just target a Proton version rather than encourage native development.

/tin foil hat off
micke1m Feb 13, 2022
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It seems strange to me that Valve is validating all of these non-native games but seems to be skipping right over all the native ones. Certainly it would be faster to verify/mark playable native games, given that there's no need to be concerned with a game breaking.

/tin foil hat on

Sort of makes me think Valve would prefer developers to make games for Windows that just target a Proton version rather than encourage native development.

/tin foil hat off

Native games breaking is not uncommon though. In fact, often you're better off running the Windows version.
Purple Library Guy Feb 13, 2022
It seems strange to me that Valve is validating all of these non-native games but seems to be skipping right over all the native ones. Certainly it would be faster to verify/mark playable native games, given that there's no need to be concerned with a game breaking.

/tin foil hat on

Sort of makes me think Valve would prefer developers to make games for Windows that just target a Proton version rather than encourage native development.

/tin foil hat off
I have a suspicion they are stockpiling a fair number of games to slap into the "validated" column just as release day arrives.
pete910 Feb 13, 2022
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It seems strange to me that Valve is validating all of these non-native games but seems to be skipping right over all the native ones. Certainly it would be faster to verify/mark playable native games, given that there's no need to be concerned with a game breaking.

/tin foil hat on

Sort of makes me think Valve would prefer developers to make games for Windows that just target a Proton version rather than encourage native development.

/tin foil hat off

Native games breaking is not uncommon though. In fact, often you're better off running the Windows version.

Never had a native break, Only problem I have had is them abandoning them! Am looking at you Gearbox !!

Cant say I've had a lot of luck with proton on native builds. I have tried running borderlands 2 through proton but it's a terrible experience compared to the native.
AciD Feb 13, 2022
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I wish I knew the secret for Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. It's listed as playable, but I can't even get it to start on my machine, or any other Origin+Steam game.

Try to use this in the launch command: `DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%`
denyasis Feb 13, 2022
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Sort of makes me think Valve would prefer developers to make games for Windows that just target a Proton version rather than encourage native development

Well, yes. I believe a Windows build is still required to release on Steam. No Linux exclusive releases. Perhaps with the Deck, that has changed, hopefully.


I have a suspicion they are stockpiling a fair number of games to slap into the "validated" column just as release day arrives

I'd also hazard our catalog probably doesn't have as robust controller support.
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