Playable on Steam Deck?????????

[BigRich]

I just got my Steam Deck. Yea I know I'm a little behind. But anyway, as I'm browsing through the store, I wish it listed if games were playable on the Deck. I know there is a list of games playable on the deck but that's a lot of titles to look through. Unless I'm missing something. And if so I'm sure I will be corrected lol

[LeviathanWon]

protondb.com

[Haruspex]

There are over 15,000 "playable" or "verified" titles on Steam Deck now, but that's just a fraction of what you can actually play. Realistically, it would be easier to make a list of the games you can't play on the Steam Deck at this point.

The link posted above is helpful:

Originally posted by LeviathanWon:

protondb.com

It's crowd-sourced information on how well games work on the Steam Deck, or on Linux in general. There are also helpful tips on getting games working that don't otherwise work. If a game isn't listed as "playable" or "verified", check ProtonDB. It's also helpful to search for Youtube footage of a particular game being played on the Deck to get an idea of how it runs and what settings to use.

[Silicon Vampire]

Originally posted by Haruspex:

There are over 15,000 "playable" or "verified" titles on Steam Deck now, but that's just a fraction of what you can actually play. Realistically, it would be easier to make a list of the games you can't play on the Steam Deck at this point.

The link posted above is helpful:

Originally posted by LeviathanWon:

protondb.com

It's crowd-sourced information on how well games work on the Steam Deck, or on Linux in general. There are also helpful tips on getting games working that don't otherwise work. If a game isn't listed as "playable" or "verified", check ProtonDB. It's also helpful to search for Youtube footage of a particular game being played on the Deck to get an idea of how it runs and what settings to use.

I’d like knowing those numbers from. My account has over 1200 games, about 16% are marked compatible. There are more that are marked playable, but it’s nowhere near 90% as far as I can see.

so, please tell us where you’re getting those numbers.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Silicon Vampire:

so, please tell us where you’re getting those numbers.

The only number I provided was "15,000" playable or verified. As shown here and here[www.protondb.com].

My point was that Steam's own verification system shows only a fraction of what you can actually play. ProtonDB is a bit more up to date thanks to the crowd sourcing, but even then they haven't checked nearly the whole Steam catalog, and Proton gets continuous updates.

It's like I told my wife when she was confused about what games she can or cannot play on her Deck. I said just try it. Chances are it will probably just work. If not, there's probably a fix we can apply to make it work anyway. If not, well, just play that game on your desktop.

Originally posted by Silicon Vampire:

My account has over 1200 games, about 16% are marked compatible.

I have 1620 games in my library (2160 total when you include family sharing.), and of those, 1455 titles, or 89.81% 67.36% are marked as either "verified" or "playable" by Steam. It really depends on what kinds of games you play. I'm not big on multiplayer. If I had a lot of multiplayer titles in my library with aggressive and incompatible anti-cheat implemented, I expect this number would probably be lower.

Edit:
A bit of a correction. 2160 titles available to me total in my library and via Family sharing. Of those, 1455 games are marked "verified or playable", totaling 67.36% of my library. Still more than half, and lots of those untested games will run just fine.

[Silicon Vampire]

I admit, I haven't really been concerned enough to really look into it but I will say, I do agree with you in principle. I have a few games the are marked as unsupported that run just fine. Probably just as many I have run across marked verified that I've not been able to get working at all. Most likely from my own shortcomings.

And thanks for the links.