What a time to be alive. My dad got me a Gameboy with an external battery pack for my birthday when I was a kid. If I'd have known this was the future I had to look forward to, I would have flipped out.

And yet exactly 0 Steam Decks are available for purchase in Australia.

Meh, number of games with Gold or Platinum Status on ProtonDB seems more significant IMO

This number is basically useless except for headlines like this. Actually using my steam deck I don't care at all about the verification status. There's plenty of unsupported and unknown stuff that works well, and there's verified games I've run into issues with. Playable is also a particularly bad category because it's weirdly picky about certain things but not others, and it seems to be rarely updated when games get patches, so stuff can get better or worse than it's labeled. I just check ProtonDB or look up youtube videos of someone playing a game on deck if I want to check something.

What game is in the thumbnail? Looks like a Castlevania style

Don't forget the deck emulates a lot of other console, and therefore, the number of game you can play should also include those, I emulate the switch on my deck and it works like a charm.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

There's currently somewhere around 92,000 games on Steam and so it's going to take a long time for Valve to check them all on Steam Deck but here's some recent picks.

Currently there are 11,007 games rated Playable or Verified!

So Valve are making pretty good progress on it, although it's not a perfect system there's a huge amount of games you can take with you on the go, or sat on your sofa.

Recently some pretty interesting games have been set as fully Verified including:

Infinity Strash: DRAGON QUEST The Adventure of Dai (releasing September 28th)

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

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Still scrolling to find a game to play 😂

I really wish there was a distinction between “runs well on deck” and “plays well on deck”. I know that you can connect a monitor/mouse/keyboard but I’m mainly looking for games that I can play directly on the deck so mouse-heavy games are a pass for me (occasional mouse or only in certain menus is fine but not in regular gameplay).

Thankfully protondb is an amazing resource and answers most my questions along with Steam’s “full controller support” badge. I just wish there was a simple badge that covered both. There are some “Great on Deck” games that I strongly disagree with, like Human Resource Machine. It’s a great game, I love it, but great on deck it is not. It runs fine but it needs a mouse, the trackpads are way too finicky and the text too small IMHO.