Check out the 50 most popular Steam Deck games for May 2026

By Liam Squires-Hand - 1 Jun 2026 at 8:37 am UTC

Another month has flown by and we have a round-up for you of the most popular games played on Steam Deck during May 2026.

During last month we had some pretty big releases during May like Forza Horizon 6, Subnautica 2, Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and more! There never seems to be a dull month lately, there's always something really fun releasing.

Using Valve's provided data here's what was hot on Steam Deck between May 3 - Jun 1:

Rank	Game	Verified
1	Slay the Spire 2
2	Stardew Valley
3	Forza Horizon 6
4	Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
5	Subnautica 2
6	Diablo® IV
7	Baldur's Gate 3
8	Balatro
9	Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!
10	Brotato
11	Hades II
12	Subnautica
13	Slay the Spire
14	ELDEN RING
15	The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
16	Red Dead Redemption 2
17	Cyberpunk 2077
18	Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
19	Hades
20	Mina the Hollower
21	Vampire Survivors
22	Megabonk
23	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
24	LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight
25	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
26	Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
27	Fallout 4
28	Mewgenics
29	No Man's Sky
30	DAVE THE DIVER
31	Hollow Knight: Silksong
32	Persona 5 Royal
33	Hollow Knight
34	Warframe
35	Hogwarts Legacy
36	PEAK
37	BALL x PIT
38	R.E.P.O.
39	NBA 2K26
40	Halo: The Master Chief Collection
41	Dead by Daylight
42	Forza Horizon 5
43	Disney Dreamlight Valley
44	Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
45	Cult of the Lamb
46	HELLDIVERS™ 2
47	Far Far West
48	Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
49	Path of Exile 2
50	ARC Raiders

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Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing the most recently?

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Steam Deck, Listicle, Misc, Round-up

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Stella 3 hours ago

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Forza Horizon 6,though not on the Deck, mostly on my Allyx running Bazzite. It has a huge performance advantage there over Steam Deck, as just 4 CPU cores don't really seem enough for this game. It's incredibly CPU-heavy.

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