Steam Deck games revealed in compatibility ratings — here's the list so far

Steam Deck games revealed in compatibility ratings — here's the list then far

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We're finally starting to see which games will be playable on the Valve steam Deck, months after the gaming giant beginning announced that information technology had begun reviewing its entire gaming catalog for compatibility with its upcoming hardware.

According to Valve, reviewed games are tested based on their functionality and given a rating of either "Verified, Playable, Unsupported or Unknown." While Valve eventually aims to have these categories displayed on each individual game'south Steam Store Page, this has not yet been added, and at the moment is only attainable via SteamDB.

Games that have received a "Verified" status are accounted to "piece of work great on Steam Deck, right out of the box." To receive such a rating, each private game must pass tests in the following 4 categories: input, display, seamlessness and system support.

And so far, some of the about notable games to have received a "Verified" status include Hades, Psychonauts 2, Death Stranding, Nighttime Souls 3 and Final Fantasy.

If a game fails one of the iv tests conducted equally part of the review, it'south given a "Playable" status, provided the issue doesn't touch the gameplay in a major way. For instance, Valve'due south own Portal two received a perfect score, while Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Society was classified as "Playable" because of an issue where players may be required to manually quit via the Steam overlay in order to exit the game.

At the fourth dimension of writing, the only five games that had been categorized as "Unsupported" are Persona iv Golden, Arizona Sunshine, Upkeep Cuts, Chore Simulator and theBlu. Apart from Persona 4, none of these games have come up as a shock given that Valve had previously confirmed that VR games will non be supported on Steam Deck.

So far, 86 games take been reviewed for compatibility and given ratings. It's worth noting that according to data taken from Steamdb.info, Valve's reviewers appear to be adding more than games to the list on a rolling basis. Considering that Steam's game library recently reached over 50,000, there's nonetheless a long mode to go, though nosotros fully expect nearly, if non all, of the best Steam games to pass their corresponding reviews.

The Steam Deck is expected to release in February 2022, with the portable PC gaming machine being powered by Valve'south own SteamOS operating organisation too equally a custom processor and graphics tech provided by AMD.

You can view the full list of games that have been reviewed for Steam Deck compatibility below, though do go on in mind that these are nonetheless being updated regularly.

Verified:

Aliens: Fireteam Elite
APE OUT
Castle Crashers
Celeste
Circuit Superstars
Cuphead
Nighttime SOULS Ii: Scholar of the First Sin
Nighttime SOULS Three
Expiry STRANDING
Death'south Door
Dishonored
Eastward
Terminal FANTASY
Ghostrunner
Guacamelee! 2
Gunfire Reborn
Hades
Hollow Knight
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED
Into the Breach
Mad Max
Manifold Garden
Marker of the Ninja: Remastered
Noita
Portal 2
Psychonauts 2
RAD
Record of Lodoss State of war-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
Remnant: From the Ashes
Gamble of Rain two
Rogue Legacy two
Sable
SCARLET NEXUS
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Super Mega Baseball 3
Tetris Effect: Connected
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The Messenger
Total War: WARHAMMER 2
Tunche
Twelve Minutes
Webbed

Playable

A Way Out
Among Trees
Battlefield 1
Battlefield 4
Battleground 5
Black Skylands
BRAVELY DEFAULT II
Cats in Time
Cookie Clicker
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Expressionless Space 3
Dyson Sphere Programme
Factorio
Farming Simulator xix
Inscryption
Information technology Takes Two
Lost in Random
Madden NFL 22
Need for Speed Heat
NieR:Automata
Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Twelvemonth
RimWorld
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Season of Mystery : The Cherry Blossom Murders
Sid Meier'due south Civilization VI
Slay the Spire
STAR WARS Battlefront Two
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Society
STAR WARS: The Old Republic
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Subnautica
Swords of Legends Online
The Witcher three: Wild Chase
Titanfall ii
Tomb Raider
Tribes of Midgard
Valheim
War Thunder
Wasteland 3

Unsupported

Arizona Sunshine
Budget Cuts
Job Simulator
Persona 4 Golden
theBlu

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