There are over 1000 "verified" games to play on Steam Deck right now
Valve has revealed Steam now has over a thousand “verified” games that will play flawlessly on its new handheld system, Steam Deck.
Games that earn a Verified badge meet Valve’s own “very high” standards, as described in detail in a new Steam Community forum post.
“Our existing standards for titles to get a Verified or a Playable rating are very high,” Valve explained (thanks, NME). “If a game shows controller glyphs 99 per cent of the time but tells you to ‘press F’ sometimes during gameplay, that’s Playable, not Verified. If 99 per cent of a game’s functionality is accessible, but accessing one optional in-game minigame crashes, or one tutorial video doesn’t render, that’s Unsupported.”
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Even though these lofty standards means some games may get “false negatives”, Valve said it would rather that than “false positives”.
“This is by design: around the launch timeframe, we believed it was more valuable to prevent false positives (“this game is Verified but part of it doesn’t work”), even at the cost of some appearance of false negatives (“this game is Unsupported but I didn’t notice anything wrong with it”).
