Steam Deck: unveiled the first 38 "verified" games, including Death Stranding, Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro

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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

First batch of Steam Deck games compatibility was pushed.

Verified: 38
Playable: 24
Unsupported: 5

This info is available in our instant search under Platforms:https://t.co/ca4J06JJwH

— SteamDB (@SteamDB) January 20, 2022

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.