Steam Tops 30,000 Steam Deck Playable and Verified Games

The launch of the Steam Deck and Valve’s Proton compatibility layer was one thing of a watershed second for Linux gaming. Not solely did the hand-held gaming PC principally drive publishers and builders to think about Linux gaming greater than ever earlier than throughout growth, it additionally made it in order that Linux gamers could access a host of games that they may not have been able to before.

In accordance with SteamDB, which tracks all method of official Valve knowledge, Steam now formally has 30,023 video games which can be formally listed as “Verified” or “Playable” on the Steam Deck or SteamOS. By ProtonDB‘s metrics, this quantity is barely decrease, at 29,988 Verified or Playable. ProtonDB additionally tracks different attention-grabbing metrics, one in all which is the share of Steam Deck Playable and Verified video games which can be at present trending. In accordance with these metrics, 40% of the present Steam Prime 10 video games by concurrent participant rely are Verified or Playable, with that quantity leaping as much as 46% within the Prime 100 video games by participant rely.

By the official SteamDB rely, the breakdown is as follows:

• Steam Deck Playable: 21,078
• Steam Deck Verified: 8,975
• Steam Deck Unsupported: 6,846
• SteamOS Unsupported: 4,494

It needs to be famous that uncooked working system compatibility or anti-cheat aren’t the one components that decide Steam Deck compatibility. Efficiency and UI scaling may additionally make a sport incompatible or unsupported on the Steam Deck, whereas they would not essentially stop playability on SteamOS or Linux.