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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).
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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.
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
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 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.
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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