We’re here to tell you again Steam Deck has exceeded 12,000 compatible games. Therefore, the console from Valve continues to expand its catalog, if not to the level of the beginning of its career, at least quite steadily.

In that regard, it’s worth remembering that we repeated the 10,000 compatible games milestone at the beginning of July, about ten months after we did the same with 5,000, so the pace of testing and fixing is more or less the same. Slowly but surely, one might say.

And what does checking and patching mean? What we have explained on other occasions: to be verified What games work and to what extent?, because in practice there are many more compatible titles than are counted, but in this sense Valve is taking it easy; and that patches are applied that improve the compatibility of components that allow Steam Dec, a Linux device, to run Windows games.

So while there are people who work hard to improve the technical aspects of components like Proton and pay special attention to the most popular titles, there are those who dedicate themselves to testing games and assigning them a rating that is voted on by the community based on their own experience: platinum, gold, silver, bronze… You get it, right?

This effort determines how many Steam Deck compatible games there are and divides them into three groups: verified, playable and unsupported. Verified are those that, in addition to working properly, are and are tailored to offer the best Steam Deck experience; Playable are those that work well, but may have some bugs or may not be well adapted to the device’s screen and controls; and the incompatible ones… Well, that’s it.

The numbers at the time of publishing this entry according to SteamDB data are:

• 4,080 verified games.
• 8,081 playable games.
• 3,539 unsupported games.

Some of the latest games verified by Steam Deck are Dungeon Golf, Lords of the Fallen, The Talos Principle 2, View-finder either a world of horror…

And now for 15,000 compatible titles, something that should happen around the middle of next year. Of course, quantity is not as important as quality, and that is precisely why the console, which is still a PC, is progressing so slowly in this regard, when the catalog of games available on Steam is approaching the 100,000 mark, the vast majority of them for Windows, Yes.