What games can you play on Steam Deck?

Is this the start of how we will change to play PC games in the future, for starters let's see what we will be playing next month

Paul McNally

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Steam Deck units are getting ready to ship to the early purchasers so you might now, with good reason, be starting to consider what games you will actually play on your new toy when the package arrives.

Obviously, some games are going to be more suited to it than others and Valve has been super-busy preparing the entire Steam library to highlight exactly what will run to perfection with you.

The new Deck Verified section on the Steam Deck website shows games listed within four categories of compatibility as you can see in the image below:

In order to get classed as verified a game needs to tick four boxes – Input, Seamlessness, Display, and System Support – If it passes all these tests it’s good to go.

Steam Store on Deck

The Steam Store on the Steam Deck gets a new tab, pride of place on the left. Simply called Great on Deck, it will take you to a curated list of games that will run flawlessly. This will obviously get added to as well as devs potentially adapt their titles to hit this new audience.

All games in the regular section of the library will have an icon showing the kinds of experience you can expect to get on your new Steam Deck. This system will take a period of time to get used to, especially if you pick up a unit later down the line and expect everything to just work.

Games verified on Steam Deck

This is the current list of games that will work on Day One. We will add to this as we get confirmation of titles going forward. SteamDB in the meantime is running a list that is updating regularly if you need to stay in the loop right now.

• Portal 2
• Hades
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Celeste
• Hollow Knight
• Dishonored
• Risk of Rain 2
• Cuphead
• Castle Crashers
• Webbed
• Psychonauts 2
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – GOTY Edition
• Noita
• Dark Souls III
• Gunfire Reborn
• Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
• Total War: Warhammer II
• Tetris Effect: Connected
• Death’s Door
• Manifold Garden
• Limbo
• Into the Breach
• Death Stranding
• The Messenger
• Ape Out
• Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
• Mad Max
• Ghostrunner
• Final Fantasy
• Guacamelee! 2
• Rogue Legacy 2
• Super Mega Baseball 3
• Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
• Circuit Superstars
• Eastward
• Scarlet Nexus
• Remnant: From the Ashes
• Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 & 2
• Sable
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite 
• Hot Wheels Unleashed 
• Tunche
• RAD
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