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

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: elmapulthe 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%)

Quoting: shotm7

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: elmapulthe 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.

Quoting: XpanderPretty 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.

Quoting: EikeLook 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

Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: EikeLook 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.

Quoting: XpanderPretty 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.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: XpanderPretty 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.

Quoting: XpanderThis 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.

QuoteWhat 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