Valve's popular handheld gaming PC recently passed 14,200 officially rated games, meaning there's never been a better time to own one.

This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21835717

  •  MajorHavoc   ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) 
    3•6 months ago

    That difference seems far lower than I would have guessed.

    Oh. The “verified” status accounts for the difference. That’s fair.

    My initial mental math was including unverified Indie games I already bought for my PC, most of which happen to work perfectly.

    I expect that difference to go up fast over the next few years as more indie devs discover that they don’t actually need to change many of their old games to get verified.

    •  drcobaltjedi   ( @drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ) 
      3•6 months ago

      Yeah, even the “playable” tag i have to check what they mean by that. Psychonauts 1 and 2 are “playable” but both need you to manually pull up the keyboard and show xbox controls… Like okay? That’s all? They play perfectly.

      I also downloaded an indie game “tonight we riot” and its not even tested. Want to geuss how well it plays? Spoiler, perfectly fine.

      I’m genuinely greatful for steam personally pushing for more games to work well in linux even if the game needs a compatibility layer like Wine or proton.