We're now three weeks away from the official release date of the Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming machine. The good news is that Verified titles have been growing nicely!
Still nothing compared to the overall Steam library but we do fully expect a lot more titles to appear. This is just the beginning and not being verified doesn't mean a game won't work.
The total (at time of writing) is 129 titles. Here's the full list courtesy of SteamDB:
- 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
- APE OUT
- Aeterna Noctis
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Baba Is You
- BattleBlock Theater®
- Bayonetta
- Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
- Boomerang X
- Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer
- Castle Crashers®
- Caveblazers
- Celeste
- Circuit Superstars
- Cuphead
- Curse of the Dead Gods
- DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
- DARK SOULS™ III
- DEATH STRANDING
- DEATHLOOP
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
- Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
- Daymare: 1998
- Dead Cells
- Dead Estate
- Death Trash
- Death's Door
- Desperados III
- Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder
- Dishonored
- Eastward
- FINAL FANTASY
- FINAL FANTASY II
- FINAL FANTASY III
- FINAL FANTASY IV
- Fallout Shelter
- Farm Together
- Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
- Firewatch
- GRIME
- Genital Jousting
- Ghostrunner
- God of War
- Graveyard Keeper
- Guacamelee! 2
- Gunfire Reborn
- HITMAN™
- HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™
- Hades
- Happy's Humble Burger Farm
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Hellish Quart
- Hollow Knight
- Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
- Human: Fall Flat
- INSIDE
- Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
- Idle Wasteland
- Into the Breach
- Katamari Damacy REROLL
- Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense
- LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
- LIMBO
- Life is Strange 2
- Life is Strange 2 - Episode 2
- METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
- Mad Max
- Manifold Garden
- Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
- Metal Unit
- Mortal Shell
- NEKOPARA Extra
- NEKOPARA Vol. 0
- NEKOPARA Vol. 4
- Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
- Noita
- Nuclear Throne
- OCTOPATH TRAVELER™
- Orcs Must Die! 3
- Paint the Town Red
- Pathologic 2
- Portal 2
- Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
- PowerWash Simulator
- Psychonauts 2
- RAD
- Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
- Redout: Enhanced Edition
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Risk of Rain 2
- Rocket League®
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Roundguard
- SCARLET NEXUS
- SUPERHOT
- SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
- Sable
- Sam & Max Save the World
- Seed of the Dead: Sweet Home
- Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
- Spelunky 2
- Stardew Valley
- Supaplex
- Super Meat Boy Forever
- Super Mega Baseball 3
- Supraland Six Inches Under
- Tetris® Effect: Connected
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- The Evil Within
- The Jackbox Party Pack 8
- The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
- The Messenger
- Total War: WARHAMMER II
- Travellers Rest
- Tricky Towers
- Tunche
- Twelve Minutes
- UnderMine
- WHAT THE GOLF?
- WORLD OF HORROR
- Webbed
- West of Dead
- Wytchwood
- Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
- Your Chronicle
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
What we're seeing shape up here, is easily going to be the most incredible launch line-up of games for anything - ever. Place your bets, what do you think the total number of Deck Verified titles will be on February 25 when the Steam Deck hits the official launch?
This is only those titles fully Verified too as there's also now 111 titles that are marked as Playable like Factorio, RimWorld, The Witcher 3, Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim, Morrowind, Path of Exile and the list goes on. Some of the reasons being text too small, manual graphics settings adjustments needed, launchers, spotty gamepad support and so on. We expect many of the Playable titles to improve or even get Verified before the Steam Deck launches.
Have you decided on the first game you will be loading up yet?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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It's not a dig at GOL because I know those are the official names, but it really annoys me that some games have their names in allcaps and splattered with trademark symbols. So janky.
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slaapliedje Feb 4, 2022
I'm betting this will finally make companies create games that support game pads! Something that is sorely lacking in the PC gaming space.
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Quoting: WildCoder1000 Verified games for launch! Because they can, it would be a record for any hardware launch that would be very hard to match for quite a while, and it would make a really nice headlines.When Gabe Newell was first talking about Steam-on-Linux he said that he wanted "all 2,500 games" (the size of the Steam catalogue at the time) to run on Linux. We've got a lot more than that now running natively because the size of the catalogue has ballooned, but a launch lineup of 2,500 Verified games would be a nice watermark.
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rustybroomhandle Feb 4, 2022
So, press embargo for the Steam Deck lifts on Monday, I believe. Valve has been sending out review units, but it seems to be mostly so obnoxious "influencer" types. Kinda wish they'd have sent out to more Linux people.
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Quoting: soulsourceQuoting: inlinuxdudeGenital Jousting? Haven't heard of that one... it sounds.... interesting.. haha
I haven't played it yet, but seen some gameplay videos. It looks absolutely hilarious.
And it has a fantastic message as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AxfuhLbECf4
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Quoting: Guestisn't hitman one of those games that run better with proton even on windows? lolYep the game has a long-standing bug where it crashes on windows thanks to nvidia driver shenanigans but playing with DXVK fixes it. Someone even made a nice GUI to install DXVK easily
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its impressive when compared to other console launchs, but its not when compared to 90.000 games avaliable on steam for windows, and even more than that avaliable for windows in general.
i hope console gamers buy this thing like hotdogs, and pc gamers dont get too inclined to install windows on it, not until most games (be it steam games or not) work on it.
then it would be too late to reverse the trend.
i hope console gamers buy this thing like hotdogs, and pc gamers dont get too inclined to install windows on it, not until most games (be it steam games or not) work on it.
then it would be too late to reverse the trend.
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Kimyrielle Feb 4, 2022
Having some experience with developing a cross-platform game for Linux/Windows and mobile, I feel that screen text might end being one of the bigger reasons why games that technically run on Deck will still be practically unplayable. I was absolutely stunned when I first tested my game on a 10" tablet and couldn't read a thing, when I thought the fonts were actually quite large on the standard 2k resolution. The Deck's screen is 7", so go figure!
The percentage of the Steam Library that's playable on the Deck might end up being a lot smaller than some people hope for, because unlike Switch games, Steam games weren't developed with a 7" screen in mind.
The percentage of the Steam Library that's playable on the Deck might end up being a lot smaller than some people hope for, because unlike Switch games, Steam games weren't developed with a 7" screen in mind.
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Quoting: elmapulits impressive when compared to other console launchs, but its not when compared to 90.000 games avaliable on steam for windows, and even more than that avaliable for windows in general.It's about 64,000 games on Steam (today - there are about 28 new games added each day). It's including DLC and non-game software that gets you the higher number.
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Quoting: Guestisn't hitman one of those games that run better with proton even on windows? lolNot sure I get your point but Hitman runs perfectly via Proton, no issues at all. So it's not a poor performance or unstable release(?) as far as I have experienced.
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Quoting: BeamboomQuoting: Guestisn't hitman one of those games that run better with proton even on windows? lolNot sure I get your point but Hitman runs perfectly via Proton, no issues at all. So it's not a poor performance or unstable release(?) as far as I have experienced.
I think you didn't quite get the essence of the post you replied to.
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Quoting: rustybroomhandleSo, press embargo for the Steam Deck lifts on Monday, I believe. Valve has been sending out review units, but it seems to be mostly so obnoxious "influencer" types. Kinda wish they'd have sent out to more Linux people.Only "Previews" are allowed on Monday. Main embargo is February 25 as far as I know for the actual release.
I've sent an email to Valve today to chase up a chance of a Steam Deck for us here.
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Quoting: EhvisI think you didn't quite get the essence of the post you replied to.I think you're right :) Care to explain?
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Philadelphus Feb 4, 2022
Put me down for 1,100 verified games at launch! 
Liam, you should definitely have an article at launch noting who guessed the closest. 
*At launch, that could change over time of course.
Liam, you should definitely have an article at launch noting who guessed the closest. Quoting: elmapulits impressive when compared to other console launchs, but its not when compared to 90.000 games avaliable on steam for windows, and even more than that avaliable for windows in general.The thing is, people aren't playing all those (64,000, per CatKiller) games equally; I'd bet anything the number of players/owners of games looks like an exponentially decaying distribution. Thus, if Valve has the top 1,000 verified, that might already account for, say (to pick a random number), 50% of play time. If the next top 3,000 are "merely" playable, that might get you to 70%, etc. Pretty much anyone who buys a Deck is going to have games in their library they can play, even if they can't play all the games in their library*. So the question becomes, what fraction of players are going to motivated enough by a specific unplayable game (or set of games) to figure out how to install Windows on their Deck (and forego SteamOS's built-in sleep features and such)? It won't be zero, because of course somebody's going to do it (if just for the novelty value to put it on social media), but I'm betting the majority of people aren't going to bother taking the chance and going to the work of installing a new OS if most (or all!) of what they actually play already works.
i hope console gamers buy this thing like hotdogs, and pc gamers dont get too inclined to install windows on it, not until most games (be it steam games or not) work on it.
then it would be too late to reverse the trend.
*At launch, that could change over time of course.
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Quoting: BeamboomPeople were actually saying the reverse--not that the Proton version worked badly, but that Proton worked better than the native version and that, weirdly, Proton actually worked better on Windows than the native Windows version on Windows, due to Vulkan not triggering certain NVidia driver malfunctions.Quoting: EhvisI think you didn't quite get the essence of the post you replied to.I think you're right :) Care to explain?
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Quoting: PhiladelphusPut me down for 1,100 verified games at launch!(rapid auctioneer patter)
Hearing 1000, now 1,100, I have one thousand one hundred, do I hear twelve hundred?
That whole post is very true . . . nonetheless, if they don't pour on the speed, it's gonna seem pretty dashed restricted compared to the "every game should work" claims at the beginning. If they're not careful, the number of verified games plus games formally confirmed to work (but not hitting all the check marks for verified) will actually make it look like the Steam Deck lets you play far fewer games than it really does in practice. They could end up with a ton of games that work but haven't yet been through testing and so have no official status, so that the relatively small number of "verified" and "working" games at first make it seem less useful than it is.
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Is this going to be the biggest console launch lineup in history? It sure looks like it.
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Quoting: CatKillerQuoting: elmapulits impressive when compared to other console launchs, but its not when compared to 90.000 games avaliable on steam for windows, and even more than that avaliable for windows in general.It's about 64,000 games on Steam (today - there are about 28 new games added each day). It's including DLC and non-game software that gets you the higher number.
speaking of it, there is any way to buy Resident Evil 2 and 3 classic edition (aka, not the remakes) for pc?
i couldnt find so i tried to pirate it, but couldnt figure out how to install the cracked version on linux.
i'm not trying to advocate for piracy but, come on! i couldnt afford this game when i was an kid, then it flew out of my radar as an adult (forgot about it existence) and now that i want to pay to play it again for nostalgic reasons+finishing the things i never did as an kid, now that i can afford, now that the game run on linux... its not for sale anymore.
sigh, if i knew i would have purchased when it was on steam but i was trying to prioritize games avaliable for linux...
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Quoting: PhiladelphusI'd bet anything the number of players/owners of games looks like an exponentially decaying distribution.
long tail, google it.
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Quoting: Philadelphus. Pretty much anyone who buys a Deck is going to have games in their library they can play, even if they can't play all the games in their library*. So the question becomes, what fraction of players are going to motivated enough by a specific unplayable gamethat is a double edge sword, if they dont care about it, then valve will have less incentive to care thenselves, so people like me who never got the opportunity to play, cant play.
some people may already have played most of those games, because they purchased at launch since it worked day 1 on windows, but for people who waited 10 years to play it on linux, missing this oportunity is not an option.
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