Companies that compete with Valve and Steam aren’t going to bend over backwards to support the Steam Deck: Epic has already said it won’t build a version of Fortnite for the portable machine. It might technically be possible, but prepare for a lot of potential problems. However, running games designed for Windows that don’t integrate with the Steam store and software, like Epic’s Fortnite, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, or the Windows-based Xbox Game Pass, will present multiple layers of hurdles. Assuming that the ratio stays steady for my entire library - a big assumption, admittedly - approximately 85% of my current games should be playable on the portable hardware. A semi-random selection of Steam games (my library) showed 45 games as Steam Deck Verified, 27 as Steam Deck Playable, and 11 games as Unsupported, with a whopping 245 games untested at the time of writing. The company is focusing on the most popular titles at the moment. Of course, with tens of thousands of games on the Steam platform, even Valve can’t test them all right away. You can log in with your Steam account to check the titles in your library. The company has published a tool to let you see which of the games in your library run without any tweaks needed (“Verified”), which will need some graphics and/or control settings (“Playable”), and which just won’t run (“Unsupported”). Valve is testing its library of games on the Steam Deck to see which can run on it. But back to that core question: Which Steam games, and specifically which Windows games, can the Steam Deck run? The answer is, apparently, “most of them.” Even games requiring the Proton compatibility layer are running surprisingly well on the Steam Deck hardware.
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