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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More than Stadia could push in its first year. Though, I think considering the update frequency lately, there are quite some in the pipeline.
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Quoting: KimyrielleHaving 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.Fortunately one of the conditions for being Verified is that the text is legible on the Deck's screen. I realize that this will push some games (looking at you, Paradox Interactive!) down into Playable, but it's a target.
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mr-victory Feb 5, 2022
Quoting: TehFreekI realize that this will push some games (looking at you, Paradox Interactive!)What are you planning? HoI4 on Steam Deck?
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Quoting: Purple Library GuyProton actually worked better on Windows than the native Windows version on Windows, due to Vulkan not triggering certain NVidia driver malfunctions.I still don't understand any of this
... Is this a meme I am not aware of? An internal joke?There's no Proton for Windows? There's no Wine for Windows? You can't run Steam Play on Windows at all?
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Quoting: BeamboomQuoting: Purple Library GuyProton actually worked better on Windows than the native Windows version on Windows, due to Vulkan not triggering certain NVidia driver malfunctions.I still don't understand any of this
There's no Proton for Windows? There's no Wine for Windows? You can't run Steam Play on Windows at all?
I think it was meant to mean X is working better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows.
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Quoting: EikeIt's about DXVK and VKD3D, which can be used on Windows as well to translate from Direct3D to Vulkan. They're not tied to Proton or Wine.Quoting: BeamboomQuoting: Purple Library GuyProton actually worked better on Windows than the native Windows version on Windows, due to Vulkan not triggering certain NVidia driver malfunctions.I still don't understand any of this
There's no Proton for Windows? There's no Wine for Windows? You can't run Steam Play on Windows at all?
I think it was meant to mean X is working better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows.
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Quoting: EikeI think it was meant to mean X is working better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows.That's what I initially thought too - but if you read carefully that's not what they say, and reiterate.
Quoting: tuubiIt's about DXVK and VKD3D, which can be used on Windows as well to translate from Direct3D to Vulkan. They're not tied to Proton or Wine.How do you make that work within Steam on Windows? Startup parameters?
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Quoting: BeamboomQuoting: tuubiIt's about DXVK and VKD3D, which can be used on Windows as well to translate from Direct3D to Vulkan. They're not tied to Proton or Wine.How do you make that work within Steam on Windows? Startup parameters?
DXVK and friends are Windows binaries, so the same procedure for Wine (dropping the dll in the PATH so that games will load those instead of the ones from your system) also usually works on Windows.
Note: All strange things may happen on Windows, this is not a supported scenario for DXVK.
Last edited by jens on 5 February 2022 at 5:34 pm UTC
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Quoting: BeamboomI think you just need to drop the correct DLLs from DXVK next to the game's executable to override the system provided D3D libraries, but check out Mar2ck's post above. Apparently there are game-specific tools to make this easier.Quoting: EikeI think it was meant to mean X is working better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows.That's what I initially thought too - but if you read carefully that's not what they say, and reiterate.
Quoting: tuubiIt's about DXVK and VKD3D, which can be used on Windows as well to translate from Direct3D to Vulkan. They're not tied to Proton or Wine.How do you make that work within Steam on Windows? Startup parameters?
Honestly, I've done my best to avoid anything to do with Windows for the last 20+ years, so I'm not the best person to answer this question.
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This recent news by a very influential German games news mag again
falsely writes that Valve promised that ALL games will be supported on the Deck.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/5-gruende-pro-steam-deck,3377491.html
This is not helpful.
Plus the tendentious point (among 5, why you should probably get the deck),
that you can wipe Linux and put Windows on the device.
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falsely writes that Valve promised that ALL games will be supported on the Deck.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/5-gruende-pro-steam-deck,3377491.html
This is not helpful.
Plus the tendentious point (among 5, why you should probably get the deck),
that you can wipe Linux and put Windows on the device.
Last edited by sub on 5 February 2022 at 5:45 pm UTC
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Quoting: subThis recent news by a very influential German games news mag again
falsely writes that Valve promised that ALL games will be supported on the Deck.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/5-gruende-pro-steam-deck,3377491.html
This is not helpful.
Plus the tendentious point (among 5, why you should probably get the deck),
that you can wipe Linux and put Windows on the device.
I remember Gamestar saying that Valve had explicitly said to them that they're going to have every game working.
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: subThis recent news by a very influential German games news mag again
falsely writes that Valve promised that ALL games will be supported on the Deck.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/5-gruende-pro-steam-deck,3377491.html
This is not helpful.
Plus the tendentious point (among 5, why you should probably get the deck),
that you can wipe Linux and put Windows on the device.
I remember Gamestar saying that Valve had explicitly said to them that they're going to have every game working.
Would be very stupid by whomever (at Valve) to claim that.
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officernice Feb 6, 2022
Quoting: melkemindKind of funny to see Rocket League on there when it's no longer even available for sale. Valve is definitely "being the bigger man" in their conflict with Epic.If there is one. They seem to have worked well together for the EAC issue. I am still amazed that Valve gave me a refund for Rocket League after Linux support was dropped. I had over 400 hours in it.
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Quoting: officerniceI think I was closer to 550 hours. And still I feel the refund was completely justified.Quoting: melkemindKind of funny to see Rocket League on there when it's no longer even available for sale. Valve is definitely "being the bigger man" in their conflict with Epic.If there is one. They seem to have worked well together for the EAC issue. I am still amazed that Valve gave me a refund for Rocket League after Linux support was dropped. I had over 400 hours in it.
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: mylkait is more surprising, that just hitman is on the list. 2+3 are basically the same game and but i wouldnt even play hitman 1. i would play it within hitman 2 with the new mechanics
Hitman is natively on Linux:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/de/games/hitman/
native, or proton does not matter if its platinum. it has the same mechanics so if you can play hitman, you should also be able to play 2+3
hitman 2 runs better with proton, than hitman 1 native. so as i said. i would play hitman 1 within hitman 2. it has more features
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Quoting: mylkaQuoting: EikeQuoting: mylkait is more surprising, that just hitman is on the list. 2+3 are basically the same game and but i wouldnt even play hitman 1. i would play it within hitman 2 with the new mechanics
Hitman is natively on Linux:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/de/games/hitman/
native, or proton does not matter if its platinum.
You asked why, I told you a plausible reason. If you don't believe it, well... maybe you've got a better explanation?
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For anyone who wants a quick view of Proton compatibility when looking at the Steam page of a game:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439657-protondb-steamplay-integration
I was using the "Steam Play Compatibility Reports" script by DanMan for a while, but it's based on old data that hasn't been updated in quite some time. So I made my own version, which looks similar but uses current data.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439657-protondb-steamplay-integration
I was using the "Steam Play Compatibility Reports" script by DanMan for a while, but it's based on old data that hasn't been updated in quite some time. So I made my own version, which looks similar but uses current data.
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Quoting: PhlebiacFor anyone who wants a quick view of Proton compatibility when looking at the Steam page of a game:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439657-protondb-steamplay-integration
And I made another one to show the MetaCritic score and lowest price according to CheapShark:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439664-cheapshark-steam-integration
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Quoting: mtTho if there will ever be a mod that supports Gyro controls for Minecraft, that would be the non plus ultra.Gyro support is already possible via 3rd party input remappers and IIRC you can already remap it to mouse or right stick via Steam's input tools, even for non-Steam games. I'll test it w/Minecraft and get back to you but my gut's telling me you shouldn't need a mod for that.
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