When a Steam Tech user walks through a Steam store or their game library they can see at a glance if the device is compatible with a device thanks to these four labels.
The green “compatible” label is manually verified by the valve teams and is considered fully functional on the device, showing at least 30 frames per second. The yellow “playable” label means that the game runs on the Steam deck, but the player must configure something for themselves, e.g. Manually select the social framework for the controller. The gray label is clearly “not supported”: you do not need to buy the game for your Steam deck, for example it will not launch like all VR games. Finally, the label “undecided” means that the compatibility of the valve game has not yet been verified, so there is confidence.
Steam Deck’s main menu will naturally highlight device compatibility games for the “Great on Deck” tab, but the user can browse all the remaining Steam stores by switching to the tab neighbor. We would have liked to estimate the number of games that qualified for SteamTech launch, but Valve is likely to deliver the first list by the end of this year.
“The team is currently offering a way to test whether each game in your library is compatible with Steam Decode before it starts. On the Steam card you can quickly see which games have already been tested for compatibility with the Steam deck and know their type. More details will be announced soonStabilize the valve.
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