Valve has announced that over 2000 games in the Steam library have now been officially branded either ‘verified’ or ‘playable’ for Steam Deck.
Valveis in the process of reviewing the entire Steam catalogue, and is marking each game with one of four ratings designed to show how smooth the experience will be when playing that game on its upcoming handheld.
These ratings are designed to letSteamDeck owners easily tell which games are best suited for play on the Deck.
According to a new blog on the Steam website, over 2000 games are now officially declared either ‘verified’ or ‘playable’.
If a game has been categorised as ‘verified’ that means it works perfectly on the Steam Deck with button controls. If a game is ‘playable’ then it may have some slight issues.
These may include the need to use the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, the in-game text being small, or the need to execute some operations manually (such as using the touchscreen to open a launcher).
At the time of writing, 2,126 games have been tagged as ‘verified’ or ‘playable’ on Steam. Of these, 1,109 are ‘verified’ and 1,017 are ‘playable’.
Valve also launched a service in February which lets players seewhich of their own Steam games will workon the Steam Deck.
Players can visit a newSteam Deck Compatibilitypage which lets them log into their Steam account and see which of their games have been tested so far.
Further reading
According to Valve, a game can only be rated Verified if it ticks all four of the following boxes:
