Steam Deck: How To Check If Your Games Are Compatible
Valve’s new and powerful handheld gaming PC, Steam Deck aims to “deliver the games and features you love that come with Steam”, but given how the device runs on SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based operating system, many of the games that are on Steam won’t work out of the box.
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Steam Deck is using Proton —a compatibility layer— to run Windows games on Linux. The tool is praised highly by the Linux community for making gaming on Linux somewhat a viable option, but it doesn’t always run well. To help players know which games are fully compatible —and which aren’t— with the Steam Deck, Valve is introducing a unique rating system.
There are currently two ways to see if a game in your library is compatible with Steam Deck, but one of them requires you to actually have the device at hand and since it’s not out yet, we’ll focus on the other alternative.
Steam Deck’s official page says “The team is currently working on a way for you to be able to check the compatibility category of each of the games in your own library ahead of launch.”, but you can use SteamDB as an alternative to see which games are officially verified by Valve.
Valve is reviewing new titles on a daily basis to let players know if a game works out of the box or not. Each title may fall into one of the following four categories: Verified, Playable, Unsupported, Unknown.
There are hundreds of “Verified” titles on Steam Deck already and Valve added 150 more games to the list prior to launch. Considering there are more than 50,000 games listed on Steam, only a few hundred available at launch may not seem like a lot, but Valve says they will continue to review titles every day even after post-launch. This means a title that is
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