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It looks like almost 30% of the games on Steam are unsupported by the Steam Deck

It looks like almost 30% of the games on Steam are unsupported by the Steam Deck
Patrick Devaney

Patrick Devaney

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Valve’s Steam Deck has really captured the public’s imagination and, following on from the Nintendo Switch, ushered in a new era of handheld gaming. There are a lot of games available on Steam, however, and with the bitesize PC offering so much in such a small package it is not wild to assume that not all games on Steam will work on the Steam Deck. In fact, Valve has been testing games on the Steam Deck by the thousand and almost 30% have not been up to the task. Let’s get into some details.

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The Steam Deck Twitter account has tweeted out that over 5,000 titles on Steam have officially been awarded the “Verified” and “Playable” classification. This number can be added to the 2,000 titles, which the company has already confirmed as being “Unsupported”, which means so far, out of a sample of roughly 7,000 games, just under 30% of the games on Steam are Unsupported for play on the Steam Deck.

Whenever Valve gives a game a Verified classification it means that the company is confident gamers will not face any problems or issues when they are playing them on the handheld console. If there is an expectation of minor issues, then the game will be classified as playable. Exhibiting transparency that should be applauded, if the company thinks gamers will face too many issues to truly enjoy the game, then it will not verify the game and will give it the unsupported classification.

It is important to note here too that there are roughly 50,000 games available on Steam, which means the Steam Deck so far is officially able to play about 10% of them. There is still work to be done here, but also there is nothing stopping gamers themselves from running their own tests of games that have not yet been subject to Valve’s Steam Deck verification process.

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Patrick Devaney

Patrick Devaney

Patrick Devaney is a news reporter for Softonic, keeping readers up to date on everything affecting their favorite apps and programs. His beat includes social media apps and sites like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat. Patrick also covers antivirus and security issues, web browsers, the full Google suite of apps and programs, and operating systems like Windows, iOS, and Android.

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