Steam Deck Hits 15,000 Games Rated Playable and Verified

The Steam Deck, Valve’s popular Linux-powered gaming handheld, has reached a new milestone: 15,000 games are now rated either Playable or Verified. And it’s still selling well.

The Steam Deck continues to grow in popularity

The important thing to remember is that Deck Verified only includes games that Valve has put through testing. Games not yet tested can still be played, and you can try to play anything. Additionally, there are times when the rating is wrong, like Unsupported games actually being fine or Verified games having poor performance (but we’re talking a tiny percentage wrong here).

Here are the current numbers of games rated by Valve:

• Verified: 4,898
• Playable: 10,102
• Unsupported: 4,033

Some recently Steam Deck Verified games that look great include:

• ANIMAL WELL
• Nocturnal: Enhanced Edition
• Planetiles
• Saviorless
• The Witch’s Cauldron
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
• Wizard with a Gun

Saviorless, Credit: Empty Head Games

Random shout-out to Forest Fortress (NSFW) as becoming number 15,000 in the list. Bet Valve loves testing all those games, huh?

There’s certainly no shortage of truly excellent games for the Steam Deck. There are more supported games than any one person can play, which is a pretty good place to be for a platform overall. You can see the proper numbers on SteamDB, since that includes delisted games you can still play if you own them (which Valve still verify).

That leads me to the elephant in the room, though: anti-cheat. What a pain in the ass it is. Various developers still have not enabled support via Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye, including Rust, PUBG, Rainbow Six: Siege, Destiny 2, and more. And recently, we’ve had EA expand their own EA anticheat, breaking multiple games, which is not looking good for their future titles on Steam Deck and Linux desktop. Hopefully, Valve will eventually be in a position to do something about all that.

Additionally, while we don’t get sales numbers from Valve on anything, we can see overall the Steam Deck has been selling well. Especially since the release of the Steam Deck OLED. Looking at the global top sellers, the Steam Deck constantly ranks quite high. While the Steam Deck is much more costly compared to regular games, remember those top games sell often tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and more constantly. So it’s clear Valve are shifting plenty of units.

The Steam Deck continues to sell well

Here’s how it’s doing on sales position over time:

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