Steam Deck hits 2,500 games Verified or Playable

Quoting: Jpxe

Quoting: Philadelphus2,500! Only, what, ~55,000 more to go?

I kid, but obviously that's still a good milestone to hear. Wonder how high the number'll be by the time I finally get my order email in Q3?

I wonder how many of the games actually have players.. There's a lot of asset flips with zero or just a couple of reviews.

And I'm presuming the verification process is emphasizing real, often-played games.
Still . . .

Quoting: WorMzy...What would be a better metric is: how many devs have they convinced to release and maintain native Linux versions of their games?

Well, even aside from that, it's obvious a lot more devs than ever before are aiming at Proton and overall Steam Deck functionality. That's real and happening and just as much as a win in my book as native versions.

Bret

Love to see Valve doing this work, and for another perspective we have ProtonDB 😎

Games on ProtonDB:

▸ recommended by three or more
5,069

▸ recommended by two or more
7,421

▸ recommended by at least one
3,249

Quoting: WorMzyGiven how hit and miss this verification system seems to be, the number is entirely meaningless.

The miss percentage is way under 1%, so this take is downright goofy.


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Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle

Quoting: WorMzyGiven how hit and miss this verification system seems to be, the number is entirely meaningless.

The miss percentage is way under 1%, so this take is downright goofy.

Of the games in my library marked as unsupported at least 11 should work fine on Linux (most of them natively), of 131 rated at all. That's 8%.

But my bigger worry is games marked as playable or verified which just stop working (like reported on this very site). The number of games is not the most important aspect in my humble opinion, it's the "stability" of support.

What's supported mustn't stop working.

Quoting: EikeBut my bigger worry is games marked as playable or verified which just stop working (like reported on this very site)

This is what I was talking about with under 1%. That's what matters, if a game is marked unsupported and it works, great, it's not a problem in the same way as a game marked verified or playable not working.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle

Quoting: WorMzyGiven how hit and miss this verification system seems to be, the number is entirely meaningless.

The miss percentage is way under 1%, so this take is downright goofy.

Of the games in my library marked as unsupported at least 11 should work fine on Linux (most of them natively), of 131 rated at all. That's 8%.

But my bigger worry is games marked as playable or verified which just stop working (like reported on this very site). The number of games is not the most important aspect in my humble opinion, it's the "stability" of support.

What's supported mustn't stop working.

The problem I think comes from the rapid development of Proton. I had to look up on ProtonDB for Conan Exiles, for example, to find that it needs Proton 6.3 to work. Setting some games to a specific version should in theory make it always work.

Quoting: Jpxe

Quoting: Philadelphus2,500! Only, what, ~55,000 more to go?

I kid, but obviously that's still a good milestone to hear. Wonder how high the number'll be by the time I finally get my order email in Q3?

I wonder how many of the games actually have players.. There's a lot of asset flips with zero or just a couple of reviews.

I did some digging on steamdb

- 528 games have had over 1000 concurrent players in the last 24 hours
- ~4800 games have had over 1000 concurrent players all-time
- ~8500 games have a rating above 80%.

Huh! That's really interesting, especially that second bullet point of only ~4800 games ever having more than a thousand concurrent players. Obviously the ownership must be several times higher* than a thousand for that happen (since not everyone can be online at the same time), but still, that's a lot of game that have low enough ownership/playing rates not to reach that mark.

And I'm sure it's not like all of them are cheap asset-flips either. We always hear about the Spelunkys and FTLs and Stardew Valleys and other break-out hits, but not the presumably hundreds of solid, decent-but-nothing-amazing indie games that maybe rack up a few thousands sales over the years but never reach a thousand concurrent players.

*I wonder how much higher? Do you need five thousand game ownders around the world to get a thousand playing at the same time? Ten? Twenty?