Xbox Reveals List of Verified and Playable Games on the Steam Deck - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 March 2022 / 2,926 Views
Valve released its all-in-one portable PC gaming device, the Steam Deck, at the end of February. A good number of games on Steam have been confirmed to be playable on the handheld, however, many more have not been.
Xbox Game Studios has shared a list of its games that are Verified, Playable, and unsupported on the Steam Deck.
"Here at XGS we love gaming and think people should be able to play our games as freely and easily as possible - any time, any place, sharing incredible experiences with friends or immersing themselves in solo adventures," reads the post from Xbox Game Studios.
"It's up to our studios how they fit Steam Deck integration for their games into their busy schedules, and with a lot of great stuff already in the works some titles may take longer. We've put together this list so you can see how our titles are coming along."
Here is the list of Verified, Playable, and unsupported Xbox Game Studios games on Steam Deck:
- Verified
- Psychonauts 2
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Battletoads
- Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
- Playable
- Sea of Thieves
- Forza Horizon 5
- Forza Horizon 4
- Quantum Break
- State of Decay: Year-One Survival Editon
- Unsupported (Due to anti-cheat)
- Gears 5
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Halo Infinite
- Microsoft Flight Simulator X
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I'm pretty sure this is only about playability via Steam OS (e.g. anti-cheat reference).
That is pretty limited perspective, considering official Windows drivers were released a few days ago.
Which I don't believe VGC ever posted anything about, despite now posting this.
I mean, using Windows is likely to be subpar to SteamOS in several areas for immediate future
(although being customizable, can be improved, i.e. use custom app launcher instead of desktop)
But if you really just want to play those games in the last category then Windows is an option.
Wasn`t the idea that any game playable on PC would be playable on the SteamDeck?
It is but Steam Deck still has a long way to go because SteamOS is built on top of Linux. Which very few games are made to support. Like 90% of PC games are made only for Windows. So Valve is dependent on developers making their games compatible with SteamOS by utilizing Valve's in-house compatibility layer, Proton. That's what allows Windows games to run on Steam Deck's Linux based OS. It's now just a waiting game as more and more developers make their games compatible with Proton. So we'll consider Steam Deck under Steam Early Access xD
The good news is that Valve is ON TOP of every little issue that comes up with the Deck. There was a stick drift issue after the first few days and Valve put out a fix for it not even 24 hours later. Drivers for Windows were just put out a few days ago, so you can now install Windows on your Deck, but it's not fully functional yet in terms of audio and other matters.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.
Cheating a big problem in Flight Simulator?
That was my first thought lol. Them multiplayer dogfights with Boeing 747's getting out of hand by cheaters xD
