Plus many more games work with minor tweaks or through emulators.
That doesn’t even put into consideration all the games that run perfectly fine, but have no proper input support, or those that require minor tweaks/mods, as mentioned. The number would have been colossally larger as a result.
Still unbelievably impressive though, granted that any of “proper” consoles will never see a game library of this scale
One of the best tech purchases of my life. Also it was a neat intro for Linux gaming :)
Same. I mean… a positive second chance for me, because 20 something years ago setting up Wine to run Quake 3 was an afternoon’s effort, and absolutely not worth it lmao. Nowadays I know that I can just try a game, see if it works. Doesn’t? Let’s try again. Still nothing? Proton GE. Nothing? Ok, doesn’t actually work, unless there’s a solution on ProtonDB. 50/50 it’s anticheat.
Plus… it’s plain fun to get “unsupported” games and running them on the Steam Deck! Yeah, probably there’s a reason, but that time I played in VR using the Deck? Let’s call it perverse enjoyment.
You can run VR on the deck??? This can’t include HL Alyx would it…?
Lower your expectations, like… drastically. First, this is what I used for my test (quite fun even if clunky, can recommend) and as you can tell, not exactly pushing any boundaries graphic wise. Then I installed SteamVR (obviously!) and https://github.com/alvr-org/alvr to use my Quest 2. In ALVR I set the resolution to the minimum and 60 hz. Once everything was working, I went inside to SteamVR settings and… dragged the resolution to the minimum. Text was still legible in game, everything was very pixelated but usable, and the FPS kept around 60. Do note that it’s enough to give some people motion sickness, not me fortunately, but you really want to target 72 or more. In all of this the Deck was roaring with fury (docked) and as my amusement worn out, I just uninstalled SteamVR and Taskmaster because it’s really not worth it especially since on the other side of the desk I have a gaming computer.
tl;dr works but just barely and expectations needs to be very low. Not worth it aside from curiosity.
In case anyone doesn’t know, just check ProtonDB for a more reliable report of whether a game is playable or not
The protondb badges plugin in decky is huge for this
100%, highly recommended
And those are just verified. There are thousands of games that require nothing to play, there’s just a minor thing preventing Valve from approving it. (For example, a link to a web page in the main menu disqualifies it)
Editors update, an hour later:
“Wait… I’m just realizing that’s the count of Steam Verified games in my personal library. We are waiting to hear back if any of the 15 games I have not purchased on Steam impact this total.”
I have a Deck and one thing I learned pretty quick is that some devs will mark their game as Steam Deck Verified when it damn well is not. There are some games that struggle to run on the Deck but still have the green check, so I feel claims like this are highly misleading. Also there are some games that have no compatibility information at all yet work great.
Use protondb ratings.
There’s a decky plugin that will show a steamdb badge on game pages (that also works as a shortcut to open the protondb page).
So it’s actually a tester from valve who marks the game as supported or not, and then there are community reports to make sure the rating is accurate.
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Maybe there are some games with 1 rating which is done by their developer.
Although that might only work for a few sales.
Love my Steam Deck so much! Just got done pounding out a 9 hour CIV 5 co-op campaign the other day.
The Deck didn’t miss a beat, hosted the game without issue, external monitor running off the dock with my travel keyboard and mouse, flawless fun!
I can’t wait for 20k!
