Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified

I would like to see Aliens: Dark Descent Verified. From what I saw it does work, it just isn't much playable on Steam Deck.

In my library:
VERIFIED: 12.43%
PLAYABLE: 23.20%
UNSUPPORTED: 9.84%
UNKNOWN: 54.52%

Not bad at all!

What games are you waiting and hoping will move from Unsupported to Verified one day?

Konami's Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics. It's the only Unsupported title I've got - I bought a key in a Fanatical sale for a couple of pounds without thinking to check compatibility first, since I'm so used to Proton usually being a just-works affair for the types of games that I play (and, importantly, for other Konami retro collections that I also own).

Though some workarounds exist, they're very hoop-jumpy (one will only work in desktop-mode, and another requires access to a Windows install), so it's still for all intents and purposes broken.

It's a pity because, being a collection of retro arcade titles, it'd be well-suited for handheld play. The cause is known, at least, so hopefully this one's only a matter of time!


Last edited by Pengling on 5 January 2024 at 2:00 pm UTC

In my library:
VERIFIED: 12.43%
PLAYABLE: 23.20%
UNSUPPORTED: 9.84%
UNKNOWN: 54.52%

Not bad at all!

I got these, but it's not moving anymore since months:

VERIFIED: 146 games (34.68%)
PLAYABLE: 155 games (36.82%)
UNSUPPORTED: 27 games (6.41%)
UNKNOWN: 93 games (22.09%)
Of the unsupported, most are "Valve is still working on..." AKA false positives.

Check here: https://checkmydeck.ofdgn.com


Last edited by Eike on 5 January 2024 at 1:56 pm UTC

What games are you waiting and hoping will move from Unsupported to Verified one day?

Most of the Steam games I play (by playtime) are still not playable on Linux. It's a short list, to be honest, but they are:

• Rainbow Six Siege


• Halo: MCC (supposedly has EAC support, I've never gotten it to work on Arch or Fedora)


• I tried to play Back 4 Blood a few times, I guess

I play them with friends. On Windows...

I also have a friend that wants me to play Fortnite. Note that this game is not in my "wished for" list.

Halo: MCC (supposedly has EAC support, I've never gotten it to work on Arch or Fedora)

I managed to play co-op with a friend who is on Windows. You need to be sent 2 DLLs from someone's Windows installation (preferably someone you trust, of course.)

The game is looking for these DLLs to establish a co-op session, but in the game's prefix these are only softlinked.

the bad news is the rate of growth of this list vs steam game list...
sure there are a bunch of shovelware on steam but still... the % of compatible games tend to reduce over time.

Halo: MCC (supposedly has EAC support, I've never gotten it to work on Arch or Fedora)

I managed to play co-op with a friend who is on Windows. You need to be sent 2 DLLs from someone's Windows installation (preferably someone you trust, of course.)

The game is looking for these DLLs to establish a co-op session, but in the game's prefix these are only softlinked.

I was able to play co-op with a friend until I reached the first checkpoint. It kicked me four times in the same spot just as I got the checkpoint before I gave up and just played it on Windows.

But since I've played the entire suite of campaigns with two friends already (one friend three times), we mainly only play matchmaking now anyway. I don't suppose the DLLs would help with that..? I can just nab them from my own Windows install.

the bad news is the rate of growth of this list vs steam game list...
sure there are a bunch of shovelware on steam but still... the % of compatible games tend to reduce over time.

And that only affects the numbers - you're still free to install and run them and these days they are quite likely to work, there's nothing stopping you.

the bad news is the rate of growth of this list vs steam game list...
sure there are a bunch of shovelware on steam but still... the % of compatible games tend to reduce over time.

And that only affects the numbers - you're still free to install and run them and these days they are quite likely to work, there's nothing stopping you.

that also affect how people perceive the product, there is a reason why asus called their product "rog ally" with the slogam: "play all your games"

Even if all other (offline)games do work, people need to be informed about that fact, not everyone will know about protonDB before they purchase the deck and even if they do and if protonDB people were able to test all the games, not everyone is qualified to make an Q/A, for example, i quoted a lot of times one game missing cutscenes, most people who only played it on linux didnt even knew it supposed to have then because they havent played it in other platforms to compare against.

the bad news is the rate of growth of this list vs steam game list...
sure there are a bunch of shovelware on steam but still... the % of compatible games tend to reduce over time.

And that only affects the numbers - you're still free to install and run them and these days they are quite likely to work, there's nothing stopping you.

that also affect how people perceive the product, there is a reason why asus called their product "rog ally" with the slogam: "play all your games"

Even if all other (offline)games do work, people need to be informed about that fact, not everyone will know about protonDB before they purchase the deck and even if they do and if protonDB people were able to test all the games, not everyone is qualified to make an Q/A, for example, i quoted a lot of times one game missing cutscenes, most people who only played it on linux didnt even knew it supposed to have then because they havent played it in other platforms to compare against.

I think Valve should work on compatibility by asking for a bigger commission from publishers who don't participate in game compatibility. We all know that it's clearly not the small publishers who are obstructing this,and this allows the argument: we work with this money to make your games compatible

Pretty sure everything i have on my library works on linux. Though i guess there could be few free to play games that have anti-cheat and not working, which i have downloaded.

113 unsupported is way too much though, but its steamdeck verification.

VERIFIED: 165 games (19.86%)
PLAYABLE: 333 games (40.07%)
UNSUPPORTED: 113 games (13.60%)
UNKNOWN: 220 games (26.47%)

the bad news is the rate of growth of this list vs steam game list...
sure there are a bunch of shovelware on steam but still... the % of compatible games tend to reduce over time.

And that only affects the numbers - you're still free to install and run them and these days they are quite likely to work, there's nothing stopping you.

that also affect how people perceive the product, there is a reason why asus called their product "rog ally" with the slogam: "play all your games"

Even if all other (offline)games do work, people need to be informed about that fact, not everyone will know about protonDB before they purchase the deck and even if they do and if protonDB people were able to test all the games, not everyone is qualified to make an Q/A, for example, i quoted a lot of times one game missing cutscenes, most people who only played it on linux didnt even knew it supposed to have then because they havent played it in other platforms to compare against.

I think Valve should work on compatibility by asking for a bigger commission from publishers who don't participate in game compatibility. We all know that it's clearly not the small publishers who are obstructing this,and this allows the argument: we work with this money to make your games compatible

if they do an price cut (comission cut) for the ones who help, that would be enough, trying to punish instead, would make then try to leave steam again.
the issue is that trying to to fight with money is a battle they are bound to lose... to microsoft or other companies with tons of money to spend like microsoft.

Pretty sure everything i have on my library works on linux. Though i guess there could be few free to play games that have anti-cheat and not working, which i have downloaded.

113 unsupported is way too much though, but its steamdeck verification.

Look your list up here: https://checkmydeck.ofdgn.com/
I bet most of your "unsupported" games are "Valve is still working on...", which usually means that it works all fine.

Look your list up here: https://checkmydeck.ofdgn.com/
I bet most of your "unsupported" games are "Valve is still working on...", which usually means that it works all fine.

This is the site i used yes.. For example EA Sport WRC shows unsupported, but i have been playing it since launch. Clocked 75 hours in it. Sons of the Forest is another one. Works perfectly.
Portal RTX, WRC Generations, WRC 10, Dirt Rally 2.0, RAGE, State of Mind, Mafia, Mafia 3 Definitive Edition, Valley, Project Cars 2, Elder Scroll online just to name few that are marked as unsupported but working without issues on my Linux PC.

But i guess they are somehow unsupported on Steam Deck maybe.

Edit: What i meant that they were tested by valve but marked unsupported i guess due deck incompatibilities?


Last edited by Xpander on 6 January 2024 at 4:06 pm UTC

Look your list up here: https://checkmydeck.ofdgn.com/
I bet most of your "unsupported" games are "Valve is still working on...", which usually means that it works all fine.

This is the site i used yes.. For example EA Sport WRC shows unsupported, but i have been playing it since launch. Clocked 75 hours in it. Sons of the Forest is another one. Works perfectly.
Portal RTX, WRC Generations, WRC 10, Dirt Rally 2.0, RAGE, State of Mind, Mafia, Mafia 3 Definitive Edition, Valley, Project Cars 2, Elder Scroll online just to name few that are marked as unsupported but working without issues on my Linux PC.

But i guess they are somehow unsupported on Steam Deck maybe.

Edit: What i meant that they were tested by valve but marked unsupported i guess due deck incompatibilities?

Yes... no... I mean you can also look up the reason for being unsupported there. There's valid reasons like DRM or whatever, and then there's the reason that Valve is still working on the Steam Deck compatibility. I got no idea what that's supposed to mean, but every single game I got that has got that reason is working on Linux. I didn't test all of them, but I'm quite optimistic they're working on Deck as well.

Pretty sure everything i have on my library works on linux. Though i guess there could be few free to play games that have anti-cheat and not working, which i have downloaded.

113 unsupported is way too much though, but its steamdeck verification.

VERIFIED: 165 games (19.86%)
PLAYABLE: 333 games (40.07%)
UNSUPPORTED: 113 games (13.60%)
UNKNOWN: 220 games (26.47%)

Don't forget that Steam Deck "Unsupported" does not necessarily mean the game doesn't work on Linux. It can mean that it doesn't work well with the form factor or with controllers or like that. So even if Proton worked 100% on everything and the anti-cheat people had given in and made all their stuff 100% work with Linux all the time, there would still be "Unsupported" titles.

Pretty sure everything i have on my library works on linux. Though i guess there could be few free to play games that have anti-cheat and not working, which i have downloaded.

113 unsupported is way too much though, but its steamdeck verification.

VERIFIED: 165 games (19.86%)
PLAYABLE: 333 games (40.07%)
UNSUPPORTED: 113 games (13.60%)
UNKNOWN: 220 games (26.47%)

Don't forget that Steam Deck "Unsupported" does not necessarily mean the game doesn't work on Linux. It can mean that it doesn't work well with the form factor or with controllers or like that. So even if Proton worked 100% on everything and the anti-cheat people had given in and made all their stuff 100% work with Linux all the time, there would still be "Unsupported" titles.

VR, for example, is going to be 100% unsupported on the Deck even if it works fine with a VR headset attached to a Linux PC - or on Valve's hypothetical standalone VR unit.

This is the site i used yes.. For example EA Sport WRC shows unsupported, but i have been playing it since launch. Clocked 75 hours in it. Sons of the Forest is another one. Works perfectly.
Portal RTX, WRC Generations, WRC 10, Dirt Rally 2.0, RAGE, State of Mind, Mafia, Mafia 3 Definitive Edition, Valley, Project Cars 2, Elder Scroll online just to name few that are marked as unsupported but working without issues on my Linux PC.

But i guess they are somehow unsupported on Steam Deck maybe.

Edit: What i meant that they were tested by valve but marked unsupported i guess due deck incompatibilities?

EA WRC actually checks for and refuses to run on the deck (unless SteamDeck=0 is set).

I guess Valve just respects the game developers decision in this case.

What games are you waiting and hoping will move from Unsupported to Verified one day? Just don't expect Fortnite to work any time soon.

Honestly I don't think it is unreasonable to expect the working part to happen, even if only through some totally unsupported community hack that might get you banned. Which is far from ideal but probably the best we can expect.

Other than that, I want the anti-cheat top 100 outliers such as Destiny 2, PUBG, R6 Siege, EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) to fall in line.


Last edited by hardpenguin on 8 January 2024 at 12:24 pm UTC