And with that, a shitton of games that weren’t yet, are now also playable on Linux, sometimes on 1:1 parity with Windows performance. (sometimes even better)
I thank Steam for finally kicking the habit of using Windows as my browsing and gaming desktop.
My development and work rigs and laptops have been Linux based for over 2 decades.
But after attempting to go full time on my gaming system with Linux every couple of years, I always ended up going back to Windows because the compatibility issues couldn’t be overcome at all, for some of the games I regularly played.
Now, while there’s already a crapton of games that simply get released on Linux at launch, plenty have Windows targeted versions that simply work on Linux compatibility layers, thanks to Valve.
And I’ve competed three of them
Got Steam with Proton going on my Devuan laptop a few weeks ago, and very impressed with how many games work. I might just get a Deck, after trying out a friend’s.
I think M$ needs to be very afraid – probably why they bought Activision and are trying to dig their way deeper into the gaming ecosystem.
Yeah they own half of the game developers in the world, I don’t think they’re worried. If anything, they practically negated Valve’s efforts to free themselves from MS’s whims. All these megacorps need to be broken up.
Such an unreliable system, especially since Steam allows developers to shoehorn their own broken launchers. I picked up Mass Effect Legendary Edition because it was listed as Playable, but the Uplay launcher crashes on startup every time I try to play.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Steam Deck from Valve has now hit over 12,000 games that are rated Playable or Verified.
While it’s still far short of the total number of games and software on Steam, which is now over 96,000, it’s still an impressive number that Valve has been able to get through and give some form of testing.
At time of writing the current numbers are:
You can check out the full list on SteamDB, which includes titles that had their store page hidden although owners can still download the games.
There’s various reasons for games to no longer be sold including expired licensing.
You can download and try anything on Steam Deck these are just what Valve put through testing.
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