Halo Infinite isn’t on the list of Xbox games compatible with Steam Deck

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Microsoft has released a roundup of Xbox Game Studios games that are supported on Valve’s new Steam Deck but there are a handful of notable titles that aren’t supported, Halo Infinite among them. 

In a post on Steam, Xbox Game Studios confirms that, alongside Halo Infinite, Gears 5, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Microsoft Flight Simulator X also fall under the “unsupported” category for the Steam Deck. 

The reason for this is given as simply being “due to anti-cheat” and it remains unclear whether there are plans to help these titles be supported further down the line. Microsoft also explains in the post that it’s up to individual development studios “how they fit Steam Deck integration for their games into their busy schedules” adding that “with a lot of great stuff already in the works some titles may take a little longer.”

The rest of the post is a little more positive for current and prospective Steam Deck owners, with a total of fourteen titles deemed either fully “Verified” or “Playable” on the Steam Deck, many of them popular releases. 

Valve itself has previously said that its “standards for titles to get a Verified or a Playable rating are very high”, explaining that “If a game shows controller glyphs 99 per cent of the time but tells you to 'press F' sometimes during gameplay, that's Playable, not Verified. If 99 per cent of a game's functionality is accessible, but accessing one optional in-game minigame crashes, or one tutorial video doesn't render, that's Unsupported.

The eight Xbox Game Studios games listed as Verified for the Steam Deck are:

Meanwhile, the six titles that come under the Playable category are:

These 14 titles from Xbox Game Studios now join a list of more than a thousand games which have