Valve mentioned in October 2021 that it was reviewing “all the Steam catalog” to find out every recreation’s compatibility with the upcoming Steam Deck handheld. A recreation’s standing can be indicated on the Steam storefront through a “Deck Verified” indicator exhibiting {that a} recreation was Verified, Playable (with some limitations), Unsupported, or Unknown, that means it hasn’t been examined.
Valve’s efforts are starting to bear fruit. Members of the SteamDeck subreddit have observed that some video games have acquired a Deck Verified standing, and whereas that standing will not be at the moment displayed on Steam retailer listings, it may be seen on SteamDB (there’s additionally a workaround to see them on Steam—extra on that beneath). The checklist is at the moment fairly small, overlaying solely 67 of the 60,000+ video games on Steam, and additional complicating the state of affairs is that not all of the video games within the checklist are verified. The one approach to test a recreation’s standing is to have a look at its particular person itemizing.
Cuphead, as an illustration, is verified:
Subnautica, however, is barely playable:
Some limitations are comparatively minor: The Witcher 3, as an illustration, is totally useful utilizing the default Steam Deck controller setup and “performs nicely” on the unit, however is barely rated as “playable” as a result of some in-game textual content is small and could also be laborious to learn on the Steam Deck display screen.
There are a handful of “unsupported” video games within the checklist, however the excellent news for Steam Deck stans is that each one however one are VR video games (Steam Deck would not help VR). The lone commonplace recreation on the checklist that is unsupported is Persona 4 Golden.
As I mentioned, there’s a approach to see these listings via Steam, laid out by redditor Priception_Official. It is wonky, however I attempted it and it does really work, utilizing the Firefox browser at the least—it would work with others however Priception_Official apparently hasn’t examined it on totally different browsers and I am a Firefox fundamental myself.
This is the method:
- Press CTRL + Shift + M on an open tab (This places the browser into “Accountable Design Mode,” a approach to emulate various kinds of shows to make sure web sites work correctly on different gadgets.)
- Set the Decision to 900×800
- Click on the Settings icon on the high proper and allow “Present Person Agent”
- Kind “Valve Steam Gamepad” into the “UA” area
- Be certain “Contact Simulation” (subsequent to UA) is disabled
- Go to store.steampowered.com and take a look at some video games
Assuming you adopted the steps correctly, you may see the Steam Deck Compatibility indicator within the upper-right nook of the shop web page. Clicking the “be taught extra” button will present an in depth breakdown of compatibility factors.
It is not an excellent searching answer, nevertheless it works, and extra importantly it is proof that Valve is making progress on this—small progress, sure, however single steps and nice journeys, because the saying goes. Presumably the method of getting video games verified will likely be accelerated quickly: The Steam Deck is at the moment anticipated to start shipping in February.
There is not any phrase at this level as to when the verification outcomes will start showing on commonplace Steam retailer pages, however Valve confirmed that it has began rolling out Steam Deck Verified check outcomes for a number of video games in an electronic mail despatched to PC Gamer.
“These early rounds are particularly to check varied components of the Retailer and Library on Steam Deck,” a Valve consultant defined. “We’ll be doing these small-scale exams over the following week or two earlier than ramping up considerably in direction of (and previous) launch.”
