The true number of playable games is of course much higher, but this is still an impressive milestone.
For comparison: the Nintendo Switch has roughly 4500 games available for it, the PS5 has about 500 games (+ 3500 PS4 games), and the Xbox Series X/S have 400 (+ 3000 Xbox One games).
What a time to be alive. My dad got me a Gameboy with an external battery pack for my birthday when I was a kid. If I’d have known this was the future I had to look forward to, I would have flipped out.
And yet exactly 0 Steam Decks are available for purchase in Australia.
You have my sympathy. If I could change two things about Valve’s handling of the deck, I would make it available in more regions and make SteamOS available for other handheld PCs.
I’ve heard that while it’s not exactly SteamOS… ChimeraOS gives a very similar experience, should you own one of those Windows handhelds and don’t want to use Windows primarily on it.
I think that’s a great option for end users, but I’d really like to see it as an officially supported OS for these devices when purchased.
If nothing else, the companies could offer a version of the device without an included license for a discount, I think saving 50+ dollars up front and getting a better user experience would be appealing to a lot of people.
I got one of amazon.com.au in June. The price was pretty much the same as the direct conversion from USD, and it got delivered the next day. Obv a 3rd party seller but have been super happy with the purchase.
Meh, number of games with Gold or Platinum Status on ProtonDB seems more significant IMO
Wait. Why? Everything I’ve tried works well. Maybe I haven’t tried enough games?
They might just mean that ProtonDB has a much higher number of games marked as playable or (or playable with tweaks) than Valve’s verified system.
ProtonDB is a better measurement for what will run correctly whereas “playable” vs “verified” has more to do with more tangential issues such as the text is the readable on a tiny screen or it doesn’t use the mouse, etc.
In my mind ProtonDB is more reliable than playable but to your point, the number of times there’s meaningful disagreement between the two at this stage is so low given almost everything is running wrt my library to render it a moot point
This number is basically useless except for headlines like this. Actually using my steam deck I don’t care at all about the verification status. There’s plenty of unsupported and unknown stuff that works well, and there’s verified games I’ve run into issues with. Playable is also a particularly bad category because it’s weirdly picky about certain things but not others, and it seems to be rarely updated when games get patches, so stuff can get better or worse than it’s labeled. I just check ProtonDB or look up youtube videos of someone playing a game on deck if I want to check something.
I grabbed Dead Space because it was verified and within twenty minutes it became pretty obvious I wasn’t going to be able to play at an acceptable standard.
Don’t forget the deck emulates a lot of other console, and therefore, the number of game you can play should also include those, I emulate the switch on my deck and it works like a charm.
What game is in the thumbnail? Looks like a Castlevania style
It’s Blasphemous 2, the first static image on the store page is the image from the thumbnail.
I’m not sure why it was the one that showed up for the article.
Still scrolling to find a game to play 😂
This is the best summary I could come up with:
There’s currently somewhere around 92,000 games on Steam and so it’s going to take a long time for Valve to check them all on Steam Deck but here’s some recent picks.
Currently there are 11,007 games rated Playable or Verified!
So Valve are making pretty good progress on it, although it’s not a perfect system there’s a huge amount of games you can take with you on the go, or sat on your sofa.
Recently some pretty interesting games have been set as fully Verified including:
Infinity Strash: DRAGON QUEST The Adventure of Dai (releasing September 28th)
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
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I really wish there was a distinction between “runs well on deck” and “plays well on deck”. I know that you can connect a monitor/mouse/keyboard but I’m mainly looking for games that I can play directly on the deck so mouse-heavy games are a pass for me (occasional mouse or only in certain menus is fine but not in regular gameplay).
Thankfully protondb is an amazing resource and answers most my questions along with Steam’s “full controller support” badge. I just wish there was a simple badge that covered both. There are some “Great on Deck” games that I strongly disagree with, like Human Resource Machine. It’s a great game, I love it, but great on deck it is not. It runs fine but it needs a mouse, the trackpads are way too finicky and the text too small IMHO.
