Steam Deck's Number of Verified Games Climbs to Over 1,000

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Valve has confirmed that over 1000 titles are listed as «Verified» or «Playable» on the Steam Deck. Their new handheld launched in February 2022 to high praise and was already able to play an impressive number of games at launch.

Valve's Steam Deck is essentially a portable PC and an impressive one at that. The handheld sports enough power and performance to run brand new AAA games, with the Steam Deck's compatibility listing boasting that it can run Elden Ring, a game that shared a release date with the handheld. Other games marked as verified at launch include Control and DOOM Eternal, which were used when showcasing the device to journalists, and in promotional footage prior to its launch.

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In an update by Valve on Steam, the developer stated that within a week of launching the Steam Deck, over a thousand games are now marked as Verified or Playable on the device. They also explained what these labels meant, demonstrating the criteria for a game to be marked as Verified on the Steam Deck, from all in-game text being legible, to function when using the default controller and graphics configuration. When granting a Verified tag to a title, Valve has clearly aimed for them to be immediately playable when loaded on the handheld, with very few settings needing to be changed beforehand.

For games that don't fully meet all the criteria to be marked as Verified on the Steam Deck, due to needing keyboard input, or displaying keyboard glyphs despite playing with controller settings, they are granted a Playable status. This does seem to be an issue that will be common with older games, as was the case when the Steam controller was initially launched, however, for