There's A Lot Fewer Games On Steam Deck Than I Expected

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A developer at Valve did an interview with PC Gamer last July, shortly after the Steam Deck was announced, and said that the company hadn’t found a game that the Steam Deck couldn’t run. Apparently I really took that quote to heart and stopped paying attention to compatibility updates, because when I finally received my Steam Deck this week I was dismayed to find out that over the last year Valve has found a shitload of games the Steam Deck can’t run.

In retrospect I realize he was talking about the power of the hardware, and that there are a multitude of reasons why games don’t work on the Steam Deck. Linux’s lack of certain security features means that Destiny 2, Halo Infinite, and games that use similar anti-cheat programs aren’t compatible with the Steam Deck. Games that use their own launchers on top of Steam, like EA Origin, also won’t work on the Steam Deck. There’s a lot of games that Valve just hasn’t gotten around to testing yet, which can make shopping on the Steam Deck quite a gamble. Can you play Dishonored 2, Fear 3, Monster Hunter Rise, or Resident Evil 7 on your Steam Deck? I don’t know, and neither does Valve.

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There are 531 games in my Steam library, and only 132 of those are verified by Valve. The rest of them aren’t necessarily weird, niche little indies - although there are plenty of those. According to Valve, you can’t play Dragon Age Inquisition, Marvel’s Avengers, Crysis, Terminator: Resistance, Elite Dangerous, Fall Guys, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, or Injustice 2, just to name a few. While some of the online, multiplayer exclusions make sense, a lot of them are confusing. I can play Resident Evil 2 Remake, but not 3. I can play Simulacra, but