76 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are playable on a Steam Deck

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76 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are playable on a Steam Deck
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Valve, the indies, and the PC-native publishers are going hard on Deck support. Everyone else? Maybe not.

That rounds out to a not very smooth 76 out of 100. Suspiciously like a PC Gamer review score. Or like an, uh, 19 out of 25, if you prefer that one. 38 out of 50? Either way, those games are rated either Verified, meaning Valve thinks they work flawlessly, or Playable, meaning they work with one or two caveats—bringing up the on-screen keyboard to enter text, or bad interface scaling, for example.

The big exception, however, is pretty big: Those 21 games from the top 100 that don't work on Steam Deck are mostly there because they're older, marquee, highly-played games that have extensive anti-cheat software involved that just doesn't exist on Linux. We're talking games like PUBG, Destiny 2, Rainbow Six Siege, and home-grown Steam hit Rust, not to mention MMOs like Black Desert.

Still, as this platform grows and more people become interested, ever more hardware optimizations will become available. Since we know that

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