We’ve recalled the latest Steam Deck boom data for compatible games, but as we repeat so many times on this and other issues, quantity does not equal quality and because of the selection, some good games are better than tons of junk, although the latter is usually common on all types of platforms.

However, the Steam Deck also boasts an extensive catalog, as it is a device that has just arrived on the market, as they say; as well as boasting a curatorial catalog full of high quality titles. So many more than half of the hundred most popular games on Steam run on Steam Deckwhich is not bad at all. By the way: by popular we mean the most played, respectively the ones that accumulate the most players.

To summarize a bit to give the information context, Steam Deck went on sale about a month and a half ago with only 80 compatible games that are not recommended. As we explained, Valve’s strategy to support Steam Deck games is relatively strict and not all compatible games are compatible at the same level: there are “proven” games, “fully functional Steam Deck games and customized devices and controls”; and there are “playable” , games that work quite well but can cause different kinds of problems.

Steam Deck started selling 40 odd titles from each, although in a little over a week there were a thousand of them and after a month this number doubled, while the total number was always understood as the sum of proven and playable games. The good news is that ** the former are usually more than the latter, although the difference is not very great.

Over the past 15 days, the total number of Steam Deck-compatible games has risen to 2,235, according to SteamDB, so the console catalog continues to grow at a good pace.

How many of these games are worth playing? Because two thousand or ten thousand, if most, is average … But that’s not the case, judging by the view they took at Boiling Steam, where they went to work to separate the grain from the chaff. with satisfactory result: 54% of the 100 most popular games on Steam run on Steam Deck. And counting.

In other words, of the hundreds of the most popular games on Steam, 54 are compatible with Steam Deck, including 28 verified games and 26 playable. And those 46 games that are missing to complete hundreds? 26 is not supported and 20 has not yet been tested, so the percentage of positives may be higher, who knows.

In the original publication, they have inserted a table with a list of past years, which distinguishes between verified, playable, unsupported and untested games. In the first group there are titles such as PAYMENTS 2, ELDEN RING either No Man’s Sky as verified Counter Strike Source, unturned either The path of exile as playable; in the second they are side of the planet 2, destiny 2 either The lost ark as unsupported, War frame, World of Tanks Blitz either world of monster hunters as untested.

In short, the Steam Deck catalog is growing at a good pace in both quantity and quality, even though it still has a long way to go. Also, don’t forget that you potentially have the entire Steam catalog at your disposal. However, Valve decided to go slow to ensure quality.

With all that, you no longer have to go to SteamDB to see how things are: the search for games on Steam already includes options for filtering the verified and playable games available for Steam Deck.