More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
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#2Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
#3Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
Because the ratio of verified was too optimistic in the beginning - and potentially the current ratio is closer to the reality, with a minority of games released on PC actually made to work well on a smaller screen.
Note that requiring a launcher, or keyboard input also make the games land in playable territory even though it works perfectly otherwise.
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#4Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
They probably have put the most effort into making popular games work, but as time as gone one, they've tried to “verify” more and more less popular games. I'm assuming here that there is a missing “not previously reviewed” segment in the graph, i.e. there are less games at the start than at the end.
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#5Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
There's a finite amount of validation effort available and presumably in the early days there was a focus on highlighting the games that best demonstrated the Deck's selling points. It stands to reason that as time goes by and the low hanging fruit has been picked, validation effort instead goes into more and more obscure or less obviously Deck friendly games.
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#6Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
considering the amount of new games each day on steam, it doesn't surprise me
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#7Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
The long tail of Steam (PC) games aren't really made for small screens and controllers. For a game to be "verified", it needs to fully support controllers, have readable text on a 8" 1280x800 screen and run well on Deck's hardware using Proton.
As more older Steam games went through the process, less % of games actually fulfill those conditions (main reason I'm personally seeing is either "small text" or a launcher that requires use of mouse to click "Play" before the game starts).
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#8Why has the ratio of verified dropped?
The long tail of Steam (PC) games aren't really made for small screens and controllers. For a game to be "verified", it needs to fully support controllers, have readable text on a 8" 1280x800 screen and run well on Deck's hardware using Proton. As more older Steam games went through the process, less % of games actually fulfill those conditions (main reason I'm personally seeing is either "small text" or a launcher t…
Even witcher 3 that's verified have small text. Not too bad but I prefer it to be slightly larger.
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#9For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.
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#10For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.
really liking it myself. I used to not have much time to boot my PC to game anymore and the Steam Deck made it easier to get back into gaming with short sessions - the sleep mode is perfect to leave a game paused and start again whenever you are ready.