Ever wondered how far we have come in terms of Steam Deck support for the Top 100 Most played games on Steam? Well, look no further, we have the answer. It’s going to be split in two parts.
Top 100 Titles are Playable/Verified on the Steam Deck
We get 73 out of 100, so 73% (wait a little for the 75% figure). That’s a nice number, and let me give you the breakdown in the number of titles:
- Steam Deck Verified: 26
- Steam Deck Playable: 47
- Steam Deck Unsupported: 24
- No Data: 3
First, the most important aspect that will be probably missed from this piece of news is that Valve has successfully ensured that the Top 100 games are adequately tested on the Steam Deck. We know that they use internal metrics at Valve to decide which games go first in terms of testing, as they have limited resources to test all games on Steam, and having 97% testing coverage of the Top 100 is an indication that this is working.
This number will go up very soon as Resident Evil 4 is not rated at the time of writing (while we know from Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter they are working on making its support better). You should expect it to be either Playable or Verified very soon, bringing the coverage to 98% as long as Resident Evil 4 Remake is in the Top 100.
CS:GO is the most popular game played on Steam right now, and it has also recently received an beta update with awesome volumetric smoke effects, and while Linux is not supported natively yet, it seems to work just fine in Proton:
Of course, there’s a lot more, like DOTA2, Apex Legends, Team Fortress 2…
Actually, More than 73%
In the list that you will find below, there are several applications that are actually not games, and are therefore irrelevant for the Steam Deck, such as:
- Wallpaper Engine
- Soundpad
- Source SDK Base 2007
So if we remove these 3 from the list, out of 97 actual games left we have:
- Steam Deck Verified: 26 / 97 = 26.8 %
- Steam Deck Playable: 47 / 97 = 48.4 %
- Steam Deck Unsupported: 22 / 97 = 22.6 %
- No Data: 2 / 97 = 2.06 %
The total of games that are Playable or Verified on the Steam Deck go up to 26.8 + 48.4 = 75.2 %
Is this fair to remove those? Yes, because the Steam Deck is aimed at playing games, and it should be evaluated using that standard, not in running random desktop tools or utilities.
Getting to 100% ?
It’s going to be a uphill battle to get to much higher percentages, as the remaining bastion of unsupported titles is mostly the matter of anti-cheat support:
- PUBG
- Destiny 2
- Rust
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Dead by Daylight
- Black Desert
Most of them are held back by the EAC technology, while we already know it’s supported on Linux and can be made to work with it… Devs and publishers just have to care about it.
The best thing we can do at this stage is make the Steam Deck market grow in size. The bigger it is, the less the publishers will be able to ignore it. The Steam Deck is still far from there, but give it 2, 3 years, the story might look quite different then.
It’s unlikely that retroactive support will ever come for older titles, but for upcoming titles… we might just get more lucky.
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The Full List
You can find the full list below.
| title | current_players | all_time_peak | rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 853465 | 1519457 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Dota 2 | 372973 | 1295114 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Apex Legends | 240456 | 624473 | Steam Deck Verified |
| PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS | 226531 | 3257248 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Team Fortress 2 | 95449 | 167951 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 91153 | 364548 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Wallpaper Engine | 75779 | 147019 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Resident Evil 4 | 74764 | 168191 | NA |
| Source SDK Base 2007 | 70974 | 211556 | NA |
| Lost Ark | 66702 | 1325305 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Destiny 2 | 60611 | 316750 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Unturned | 59310 | 112703 | Steam Deck Playable |
| NARAKA: BLADEPOINT | 59219 | 187468 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Rust | 57807 | 245243 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Crab Game | 53566 | 56106 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II | Warzone™ 2.0 | 49487 | 491670 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| War Thunder | 47130 | 100779 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Football Manager 2023 | 44251 | 83715 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Warframe | 42509 | 189837 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Sid Meier’s Civilization VI | 37616 | 162657 | Steam Deck Playable |
| ARK: Survival Evolved | 37397 | 248405 | Steam Deck Verified |
| PAYDAY 2 | 37098 | 247709 | Steam Deck Verified |
| MIR4 | 34904 | 97173 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 | 29305 | 110878 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege | 29132 | 201053 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Terraria | 27483 | 489886 | Steam Deck Verified |
| ELDEN RING | 26784 | 953426 | Steam Deck Verified |
| DayZ | 26755 | 63046 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Summoners War: Chronicles | 25815 | 38641 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 25422 | 70914 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Monster Hunter: World | 25155 | 334684 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 23322 | 879308 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Stardew Valley | 23232 | 94879 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Hearts of Iron IV | 22624 | 70997 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Left 4 Dead 2 | 22206 | 162399 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Dead by Daylight | 21785 | 105093 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Goose Goose Duck | 21579 | 702845 | Steam Deck Playable |
| NBA 2K23 | 21141 | 37213 | Steam Deck Verified |
| The Sims™ 4 | 20848 | 96328 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel | 20829 | 262689 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Don’t Starve Together | 20763 | 68418 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Total War: WARHAMMER III | 19317 | 166754 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Cities: Skylines | 19222 | 60386 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Project Zomboid | 18466 | 65505 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Spacewar | 18349 | 78193 | NA |
| 7 Days to Die | 17392 | 70664 | Steam Deck Playable |
| MONSTER HUNTER RISE | 17034 | 231360 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Shadowverse | 16891 | 24167 | Steam Deck Playable |
| 雀魂麻将(MahjongSoul) | 16410 | 35277 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Euro Truck Simulator 2 | 16276 | 61081 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Valheim | 15673 | 502387 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Garry’s Mod | 15612 | 73863 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Black Desert | 15560 | 60395 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord | 15386 | 248216 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Stellaris | 15223 | 68602 | Steam Deck Playable |
| tModLoader | 14946 | 38058 | Steam Deck Playable |
| RimWorld | 14493 | 60789 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Albion Online | 14328 | 25116 | Steam Deck Playable |
| VRChat | 14228 | 46814 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Sons Of The Forest | 14161 | 414257 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition | 13790 | 69906 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Brotato | 13057 | 30409 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Slay the Spire | 12579 | 33086 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Farming Simulator 22 | 12566 | 105636 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 12513 | 1054388 | Steam Deck Verified |
| FINAL FANTASY XIV Online | 12018 | 95150 | Steam Deck Playable |
| The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth | 11943 | 70701 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Deep Rock Galactic | 11934 | 46687 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Sid Meier’s Civilization V | 11772 | 91363 | Steam Deck Playable |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 11766 | 103329 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Path of Exile | 11617 | 158882 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Rocket League | 11203 | 147632 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition | 11085 | 38725 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Europa Universalis IV | 10863 | 48165 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice | 10581 | 125315 | Steam Deck Verified |
| New World | 10320 | 913634 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Fallout 4 | 10279 | 472962 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Soundpad | 10212 | 21331 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Satisfactory | 9922 | 34238 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Football Manager 2022 | 9841 | 88767 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Cookie Clicker | 9336 | 67867 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Sea of Thieves | 9327 | 66906 | Steam Deck Verified |
| World of Tanks Blitz | 9323 | 56669 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Hunt: Showdown | 9048 | 38802 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Oxygen Not Included | 8875 | 27486 | Steam Deck Verified |
| Limbus Company | 8690 | 23435 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Crusader Kings III | 8577 | 98872 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Conan Exiles | 8471 | 53402 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Factorio | 8469 | 34700 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Battlefield™ 2042 | 8381 | 105397 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 8350 | 81096 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Battlefield™ V | 8326 | 89814 | Steam Deck Playable |
| STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ | 8160 | 46550 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Arma 3 | 8043 | 56679 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Ori and the Will of the Wisps | 8035 | 34807 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Last Epoch | 7783 | 40591 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Russian Fishing 4 | 7736 | 13632 | Steam Deck Playable |
| Crossout | 7665 | 12170 | Steam Deck Playable |
| SCUM | 7531 | 68322 | Steam Deck Unsupported |
| Squad | 7363 | 26104 | Steam Deck Playable |
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