Here's what Valve have been playing on Steam Deck

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Over the course of my Steam Deck review testing, the majority of games I tried ran without issue. Some didn’t get on with SteamOS’s Proton compatibility software, and others needed a bit more work on the ol’ anti-cheat, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most Steam games end up rated as Verified or Playable in Valve’s compatibility review programme.

What, then, are some of the very best games to play on the Steam Deck? Personally I’ve most enjoyed the ones designed with thumbstick controls in mind (like Horizon Zero Dawn and Death’s Door) but since I was interviewing Gabe Newell and members of the Deck dev team in the run-up to the Steam Deck's launch today, I took the chance to ask them if they had any suggestions. Here's what they've been playing.

“I've been having a blast with God of War lately,” said Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais. “But also, Vampire Survivors - two polar opposites.”

“Yeah, I've also finally been playing God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, which I never got to,” added designer Jake Rodkin. “I also didn't think that I would be a big trackpad fan, but I've been going back to 90s point and click adventure games. I was playing Sam & Max Hit the Road and The Dig recently, so, yeah. Living giant pixel life with the trackpad.”

Griffais then pounced on the chance to plug another of the Steam Deck’s screen filtering options, alongside its system-wide AMD FidelityFX (FSR) capability:

“In the in the same vein as adding FSR, we're adding things like in integer scaling to the Deck as well, so when you’re playing these retro games at low resolutions you can keep the original art without having filtering on there.”

Gabe Newell, meanwhile, has been hitting the MMOs:

“I'm playing Final Fantasy XIV! I played a tonne of