As confirmed by Valve in the previous days, Steam Deck is ready for launch in February 2022 and there will be no further postponements. This means that the company is intensifying the optimization work aimed at making the games in the Steam catalog perfectly compatible with the new platform.
Thanks to SteamDB we are now officially discovering which are the first 38 games to have received the “Verified” stamp, aimed at confirming their complete optimization for the upcoming portable system. Among these we also find big names such as Death Stranding, Sekiro Shadows Die Twice and Dark Souls III, as well as iconic indie games such as Hollow Knight, Celeste, The Binding of Isaac and Cuphead. You can consult the complete list on SteamDB, obviously bearing in mind that these are numerous provisionals destined to grow more and more with the passage of time.
24 are the titles with the “Playable” stamp, given to the productions that work correctly on the Steam Deck without however being fully optimized. Among these emerge the names of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, NieR Automata, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Bravely Default 2. Only 5 for now, finally, the games classified as “Not Supported”: the biggest name of that. classification is that of Persona 4 Golden. Also in this case, these are constantly updated lists, and it cannot be excluded that they will soon be able to expand further.
- Portal 2
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Celeste
- Hollow Knight
- Dishonored
- Risk of Rain 2
- Cuphead
- Castle Crashers
- Psychonauts 2
- Webbed
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – GOTY Edition
- Noita
- Dark Souls III
- Gunfire Reborn
- Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
- Tetris Effect: Connected
- Total War: WARHAMMER II
- Death’s Door
- Manifold Garden
- Into the Breach
- Death Stranding
- The Messenger
- Ape Out
- Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
- Mad Max
- Final Fantasy
- Guacamelee! 2
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Super Mega Baseball 3
- Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
- Circuit Superstars
- Scarlet Nexus
- Remnant: From the Ashes
- Sable
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Hot Wheels Unleashed
- Tunche
- RAD
In the “Playable” category, however, we find 24 games:
- Factorio
- RimWorld
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Slay the Spire
- Dyson Sphere Program
- Cookie Clicker
- Inscryption
- Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
- Subnautica
- Tomb Raider
- Valheim
- Crypt of the NecroDancer
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Farming Simulator 19
- Cats in Time
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue
- Nier: Automata
- Black Skylands
- Bravely Default 2
- War Thunder
- Tribes of Midgard
- Season of Mistery: The Cherry Bloosom Murders
- Swords of Legends Online
- Among Trees
Finally 5 games are reported as “Not Supported”:
- Persona 4 Golden
- Job Simulator
- theBlu
- Arizona Sunshine
- Budget Cuts
Meanwhile, Shuhei Yoshida already has Steam Deck and is playing God of War: at the moment the Santa Monica Studio title does not fall into any of the three categories, but in all likelihood there will be updates on this very soon.