The Official Steam Deck Thread

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IllegalPaladin on 27 March 2023

thefinalbossSP said:

is it worth purchasing? I already have a high end laptop

Mine just arrived last week. 64gb and I swapped out the SSD with a 1TB.

If you can already play newer games with higher graphical settings and can get higher frame rates probably not unless you want something more portable. For me it was chugging in Uncharted 4 even when I had it at the lowest settings. And then for a game like that, the battery reports up to 2 hours of battery. However a side scrolling indie game looked and played pretty good.

I want to try using it more with older games that would be less stressful on the hardware so I could get more battery out of it.

Will probably try dual booting Windows at some point here soon for the heck of it here soon.

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Conina on 07 April 2023

Conina said:

Update of previous compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating (2023-02-03):

A total of 7580 out of 9926 tested Steam games are now rated "playable+".

34.2% of the 1339 "90+ games" and 24.1% of the 4285 "85+ games" are now "verified".

72.8% of the 1339 "90+ games" and 55.6% of the 4285 "85+ games" are now "playable+".

23.6% of the tested games are (without tweaks) "unsupported" (not playable or only with major problems). The higher the SteamDB rating, the lower this percentage becomes: at 80+ rating it's only 18%, at 85+ only 16.6% and at 90+ only 14.4% "unsupported".

Over 2000 games of my own Steam library are now categorized as "verified" or "playable". Filtered for "singleplayer", the playable+ percentage increases from 44% to 56%.

Update of previous compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating (2023-04-07, Easter edition):

A total of 8594 out of 11187 tested Steam games are now rated "playable+".

34.8% of the 1370 "90+ games" and 24.8% of the 4412 "85+ games" are now "verified".

74.2% of the 1370 "90+ games" and 57.3% of the 4412 "85+ games" are now "playable+".

76.8% of the tested games are playable, with tweaks a lot more. The higher the SteamDB rating, the higher this percentage becomes: at 80+ rating it's 82.6%, at 85+ rating 84% and at 90+ rating 86.6% playable without any tweaks.

Over 2200 games of my own Steam library are now categorized as "verified" or "playable". Filtered for "singleplayer", the playable+ percentage increases from 47% to 59%.

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Conina on 27 June 2023

10,000 Steam games now rated playable+ for Steam Deck:

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Conina on 27 June 2023

Conina said:

Update of previous compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating (2023-04-07, Easter edition):

A total of 8594 out of 11187 tested Steam games are now rated "playable+".

34.8% of the 1370 "90+ games" and 24.8% of the 4412 "85+ games" are now "verified".

74.2% of the 1370 "90+ games" and 57.3% of the 4412 "85+ games" are now "playable+".

76.8% of the tested games are playable, with tweaks a lot more. The higher the SteamDB rating, the higher this percentage becomes: at 80+ rating it's 82.6%, at 85+ rating 84% and at 90+ rating 86.6% playable without any tweaks.

Over 2200 games of my own Steam library are now categorized as "verified" or "playable". Filtered for "singleplayer", the playable+ percentage increases from 47% to 59%.

Update of previous compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating (2023-06-27):

A total of 10000 out of 12935 tested Steam games are now rated "playable+".

35.2% of the 1404 "90+ games" and 25.2% of the 4550 "85+ games" are now "verified".

75.2% of the 1404 "90+ games" and 58.8% of the 4550 "85+ games" are now "playable+".

77.3% of the tested games are playable, with tweaks a lot more. The higher the SteamDB rating, the higher this percentage becomes: at 80+ rating it's 82.9%, at 85+ rating 84.0% and at 90+ rating 86.1% playable without any tweaks.