Yet another month, Valve revealed the most popular games on the Steam Deck, and top 20 for April which shows some changes compared to what was seen in March, and which again leaves us with interesting considerations, considering that we are talking about a console that is essentially a PC, but not just any.

And it is worth recalling that Steam Deck is a Linux console whose catalog, its main part and at least the most popular titles, are triple-A Windows exclusives, but they are popular thanks to the magic of Proton. the public. It’s also generally true (and Linux benefits from it, yes).

But what are these games? You can see it in the following list with Top 20 games on Steam Deck for April:

• The surviving vampires
• Elden Ring
• Hogwarts heritage
• Stardew Valley
• resident evil 4
• red dead redemption 2
• Grand Theft Auto V
• cyberpunk 2077
• DREDGE
• Hades
• No Man’s Sky
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• sprout
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• Monster Hunter Rise
• outage 4
• Kill the tower
• Persona 5 Royal
• Dead cells

And yet it’s May. Here are the top 20 games of the past month on Steam Deck, ranked by playtime.

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—Steam Deck (@OnDeck) May 1, 2023

Differences compared to last month’s peak? Not much, really: the list is a bit rearranged, the titles are rearranged… But what you see is similar to the list of the most popular games available for Steam Deck. This means that both lists are the same, which is normal on the other hand.

Or, to put it another way, the list of most popular games on Steam Deck shared by Valve, which is the equivalent of a list of the most played games of the month, corresponds to a list of the most popular games in general from those games with official support (from Valve) for the consolethat they are not all who are, but are all who are.

Compared to the most played list on Steam, there are more significant differences, such as the fact that while single-player titles stand out on the Steam Deck, on traditional PCs the most popular multiplayer titles on PC, including free-to-play games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive, DTOTE 2, Apex Legends, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS…

Steam Deck isn’t the best-selling console or the most powerful PC, but it’s quietly positioning itself as a niche option with some relevance to Valve, a measure of popularity and audience that also serves to focus improvement work. where it matters most. Be careful with it.