Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games
A big milestone has just been hit for the Steam Deck, as there's now over 10,000 titles rated to be either Verified or Playable.
Not interested in owning one of these myself, but thanks to everyone that does - the huge success makes life much better for Linux gamers, general compatibility has been absolutely through the roof recently.
Unfortunately verification is massively broken.
It's only ever revisited after updates when a huge company breaks all their games and valve has shown in the past that they're willing to bend the rules of verification for some high-profile games.
We should ignore it and use protondb instead. You always get the latest comments from people and there is no corporation with a conflict of interest behind it.
While it's unfortunate that the verification process isn't iron-clad, it still reflects a good goal and substantial progress toward it. The fact is, the verification program serves more as a fancy inventory of how their software catalog runs on Proton/Linux and Valve is probably more worried about games people play that are no longer actively developed than it is on fixing every game for every developer.
Personally, I suspect that 3-5 years from now, once Valve has done a complete once-over of their complete library, they'll come back around with a 'premium' version of verified that's more geared toward requirements for current and new games, one which is more focused on working with active developers.
While this is true, ProtonDB has even better numbers than Valve so it's still a win for the topic.
I love my Deck, except my life got busy and all the games I play require mb+k. Thought I'd end of using it a lot more lol.
I am yet to discover a game that can't be played on the Deck. Steam Input, the touchpads and the gyro are great at getting a good control scheme for everything. I even played StarCraft on that thing.
