Steam Deck, the handheld gaming PC by Valve, has reached an impressive milestone. According to the new data from Boiling Steam(via Mastodon), the device now supports over 9900 games, featuring substantial growth in terms of game compatibility since last year.
More than 75% of Steam games are verified or playable on Steam Deck
According to the new data, over 75% of the games available on the Steam store are now either verified or playable on the Steam Deck. At the time of this analysis, over 13306 games have been tested on the device. Amongst these games, over 26% of games have been verified, over 51% of games have been certified as playable, and only 24% of the games are considered to be unsupported by the console. A list from SteamDB was used to uncover this information.
According to the SteamDB list, 6621 games have been tagged as playable on Steam Deck, while 3504 games are deemed verified for the device. Only 3139 games are reported by SteamDB to be unsupported by the console out of 127882 games available for Windows players.
Valve-Proton collab helps library expansion for Steam Deck
This is a milestone achievement for Steam Deck, a device that has been in the market for just over a year. The impressive expansion of its library can be attributed to the collaboration between Valve and Proton. Proton has played an essential role in expanding the compatibility of a significant number of games for Valve’s handheld. Proton, approaching its fifth anniversary, has ported a massive selection of Windows games for Steam Deck as well as Linux.
Furthermore, several game developers have extended the support for their games to native Linux builds in order to enhance the gaming experience on Steam Deck, which operates on Linux. This has also contributed to the expansion of the game library playable on the handheld device.
Source: Boiling Steam (via Mastodon)
