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By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)
Pretty much. Out of the ~380 games in my library, there are only a handful that outright don't work (excluding those which use anticheat).
There's a bunch that doesn't work for my Steam Deck.
It does open. It does play. But controllers dont map correctly or there's weird layering UI issues, where the game is unresponsive because its waiting for a keyboard event somewhere else, and the player can't actually get there using a controller because the devs assumed people would only use mouse+keyboard. Not even switching controller setups make it work.
That's my bad; I automatically read "Steam Deck" in the parent comment as "Linux" which is obviously a much different story. I've definitely had my share of issues getting certain games to work properly on my Steam Deck that otherwise run flawlessly on my desktop.
11000 games aren't nearly close to the total games on steam. I have a large library of 1,000 games and some aren't playable. The original Max Payne is listed as unsupported.
I am not knocking valve's progress here but I am saying that they aren't nearly done yet.
Max Payne works with a platinium rating, see in winehq: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=661 and also in protondb: https://www.protondb.com/app/12140?device=any
Just because a game hasn't been verified by Steam does not mean it doesn't work.
It's explicitly marked as unsupported. I wonder why though. Maybe I'll check it out but I'd rather not gamble on each purchase. Something like oneshot doesn't work on Linux. Their native build is broken and the proton version has some sort of mouse mapping bug last I checked. https://www.protondb.com/app/420530
So if it's not at least playable according to steam deck rating, I won't gamble.
Only 13% of my Steam library is verified. That's still plenty of games, but it's a lot more limited than "all games on Steam." More than half of the top 20 games on Twitch are unplayable or run terribly on Linux.
It opens some doors if you're willing to accept "playable" games. That's another 14% of my library. The vast majority are a crapshoot for me on the Deck. Most of the issues revolve around text illegibility and clunky controls.
I regularly play games that are not verified.