Guide to controlling Steam Deck compatible games

Valve’s highly anticipated handheld, Steam Deck, will begin rolling out to customers who pre-order it in a few days. With the start of the device’s distribution process, Valve Steam Deck compatible It also published a page where you can check the games. However, this also revealed an interesting detail. Although the device is marketed with the promise that there will be no games that it cannot run in your Steam library, some games will not be able to run on the Steam Deck “for now” in line with the newly introduced criteria.

How can we check Steam Deck compatible games?

Check if the games in your Steam library are compatible with the Steam Deck. by logging into this page you can see.
On the new page prepared, the games are divided into 4 different categories. These:

• Deck-Approved Games in Your Library (For Now)
  According to testing by Valve, these games in your library are fully functional on the Steam Deck and work seamlessly with the Deck’s controls and display.
• Deck Playable Games in Your Library (For Now)
  According to testing by Valve, these games in your library are functional on the Steam Deck, but may require additional effort to interact or configure.
• Unsupported Deck Games in Your Library (Currently)
  According to testing by Valve, these games in your library are not functional on the Steam Deck. Valve continues to add support for more games over time.
• Untested Deck Games in Your Library (Currently)
  Valve’s testing team has not yet tested the other games in your Steam library, but we continue to test more and more games every day. Visit this page periodically to see if there are new games with the Approved tag in your library.

Although hope is given for games in the unsupported and untested category in these statements made on Valve’s page, the phrase “for now” next to approved and playable games seems a bit worrisome. According to this statement, it can be deduced that even if the games are compatible with Steam Deck, they will not be able to work in the future.

According to what criteria are Steam Deck compatible games determined?

Valve announced that it makes the compatibility of games based on four main criteria:

• Entry: The game should have full controller support, use the correct controller input icons, and automatically remove the onscreen keyboard when needed.
• Screen: The game must support the Steam Deck’s default resolution (1280×800 or 1280×720). Its default settings are fine, and the texts it contains must be legible.
• Seamless: The game should not show any incompatibility warnings and if there is a launcher, the launcher should be able to be navigated with a controller.
• System Support: If running on Proton, the game and all middleware of the game must be supported by Proton. This includes anti-cheat support.

Following the release of Steam Deck, which will use a new version of Steam OS, various games will be optimized for better performance on the device. Steam Deck will be released in three different models: 64GB eMMC model, 256GB NVMe SSD model and 512GB NVMe SSD model. It is not yet clear when the device, which will be first distributed in the USA, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom, will meet with the players in Turkey.