It’s been almost ten months since we last wrote about the growth of the “official” Steam Deck catalog. After that, Valve’s console passed the 5,000 compatible games mark, a milestone that can’t just be continued and we’ll be there once the number doubles.

i.e, Steam Deck already has more than 10,000 compatible gamesall according to SteamDB data, which we’ve relied on since the beginning of this calculation, which began before the device even saw the light of day, and which we’ll continue to cover as the various milestones are met: 1,000, 2,000, 2,500 and the aforementioned 5000, at that point we made a point and aside because that was not the plan.

And here we are, ten months later, echoing 10,000 compatible games for the Steam Deck, because beyond that number, it’s what surrounds it that’s interesting. It shows, for example, how much it cost to reach one or the other amount: if the console went on sale on March 1, 2022, it reached 5,000 compatible titles in September of the same year, just six months later.

Therefore, it took them another four months and nuances to reach 10,000 compatible games for Steam Deck, despite the fact that when we talk about Steam Deck, we do so in console only half, since it is PC after all and its catalog is based on that, on PC games. Be that as it may, it is a specific device and we continue to treat it that way.

It should be recalled that Steam Deck uses a Linux-based operating system, but the bulk of its catalog is fueled by Windows games. Not only that: there are more Linux games available on Steam than the Steam Deck can count as its own, due to Valve’s quality policy. Or, to put it another way, the potential Steam Deck catalog is much, much larger than the 10,000 titles in question.

These policies include explicit testing of each game, which will later be labeled as unsupported, playable and verifiedwhich are the last two groups where console-compatible games are found according to the standards that Valve maintains: playable are those that work well but may have some bug or are not well adapted to the device’s screen and controls, while verified are those that are in addition to working properly, customized to offer the best Steam Deck experience.

The numbers to date, always according to SteamDB data, are:

• 6,533 playable.
• 3,472 verified.
• 3.110 is not supported.

The most curious thing about the case is that, although initially the calculation between playable and verified titles favored the latter, the trend changed once the catalog accumulated several thousand. Still, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to be upset with the options the console has to offer. Without further ado, Steam Deck boasts compatibility that covers 75% of the most popular games on Steam. It’s not bad at all.

However, the most important thing is not how much, but The fact that: what titles are made available to Steam Deck users, and in this sense, there is also not much reason to complain, since many great games that come out achieve a good level of compatibility with the console in record time. The last examples are Hogwarts heritage, Atomic Heart, Age of Wonders 4, The last of us, Street Fighter 6…

By the way, the milestone is fulfilled at the same time as the Summer Sale on Steam, where in addition to thousands of games you can find the same Steam Deck at a discount, which happens only a few times a year.