Quoting: jordicomaThe games I have that I'm sure are working are:
https://www.protondb.com/app/429660 [External Link] (Tales of Berseria)
https://www.protondb.com/app/464920 [External Link] (Surviving mars)
The others I haven't tested yet.
"Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck": Probably it doesn't work with the resume feature?
"This game's anti-cheat is not configured to support Steam Deck": No anti cheat.
"This game is unsupported on Steam Deck due to use of an unsupported anti-cheat": No anti cheat.
"Steam Deck does not support VR games": No vr
"Games that fail to start at all": It starts with proton or native. If it's the case, they screw it all.

I'm really confused by Surviving Mars; its native versions works fine for me on Debian. :dizzy: I guess maybe if it doesn't have controller support as @whisze said? (I don't own a controller to be able to test if it does.)

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Quoting: StarterX4In case of TF2, it's officially abandoned.

TF2 Wiki:

Latest patch
January 5, 2022
(48 days ago)

Far from abandoned, though I suppose Starbelly might be right that its complicated controls will never get officially "verified" status.

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I tried out The Wandering Village [External Link] last night and got hooked—I only meant to try it for half an hour or so until I got bored, and I ended up playing two hours until the demo ended. It's a city builder-type game with the twist that your band of refugees (from mysterious toxic spores growing around the world) is building their village on top of a gargantuan megabeast called an Onbu, which you can research the ability to feed, doctor, and guide. It travels about the world map passing sites of interest that you can explore as you pass by, and goes through different biomes which affect your strategy*. The art style is really cool, with a mixture of 3D and (really well done) 2D art. It does feel slightly bare-bones at the moment, as I researched probably about half the research tree in the demo, but it's also listed as version 0.1.11, so assuming the developers** keep up the good work on it it'll be an insta-buy from me.

I've got a few other demos I downloaded to try, I'll report back if any of them catch my fancy like The Wandering Village did.

*You can build "airwells" to collect water from humidity in the air, for instance, but they don't collect any water in the desert (which of course was what my Onbu spent the majority of its time wandering through!).

**A small indie team in Switzerland—there's a neat group photo of them as a splash screen when you first load the game, and it's made me realize just how detached we usually are from the real, human, people who make games. Usually they're just a name in a scrolling credits sequence, at best.

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I guess I can see where you're coming from, but I think that's an overly pessimistic way to see it. I've lots of talk of people buying it as a laptop replacement, so I don't think it's true that everyone buying it is getting for the "console experience" (I'm certainly not). Remember, in order to put in a reservation you have to have a Steam account (and have to have had it for at least a month for the first three days reservations were open), so basically all the people getting a Steam Deck for at least the next several months* are going to be people who are familiar with PC gaming and its quirks (because not even Windows games are 100% bug free), who've likely seen Valve's reminders that it's just a mobile PC, and who aren't going to throw up their hands in despair and swear financial ruin on Valve if they find so much as a single bug. (Who knows, it might even prove to be a less buggy experience than a lot of Windows gamers are expecting!) Game-breaking bugs should be fixed, of course, and I expect they will pretty promptly once the outcry of players reaches a critical mass.

*Based on the fact that I managed to get my reservation in by 1.5 hours after they opened, and I'm still "after Q2 2022".

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A little Half-Life on the go? Will you be playing this one on Deck?

As one of the few FPS games in my library, yeah, I might try it just to see how it handles.

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Huh, I've never thought to try Cities: Skylines with Proton, since it already runs perfectly fine natively on my computer. Maybe I should do a comparison. 🤔

Edit: I was going to test it, but switching to Proton doesn't bring your saved games along, so I didn't have a city in progress for a fair comparison. I did note that the Windows launcher lacks the "Continue" button found on the native launcher, interestingly.

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Quoting: GuestI understand all that, only some of the "playable" games really shouldn't be, as they have issues, like crashing mid-game or corrupting save data.

Issues that are yet to be fixed by devs should mean a game fails the verification completely.

But…it's no worse an experience than you'd get playing on a PC? Because the Deck is a (mobile) PC. People live with crashes and corruptions on the desktop (they're annoying, and we hope and expect they get fixed, but I bet there are zero games on Steam that haven't crashed at least once for someone out there). Why should we suddenly hold the Deck to a much higher standard? "Playable", and even "verified", don't mean "Valve certify that this game is utterly, 100% bug-free and you will never have a problem with it or your money back"; they just mean that that game has passed some or all of Valve's criteria for how good an experience playing it on an 8-inch screen with a controller by default will be.

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Been keeping a vague eye on Veloren for a while now (being interested in learning Rust, and it being one of the more prominent games written in Rust). It hasn't quite caught my interest enough to actually check out, but perhaps I should give it a try one of these days.

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Quoting: scaineI've had my money's worth with this game over the years and don't play any more, but I was still disappointed to hear that I have to "migrate" my account to be a Microsoft Live account in order to login and play.

Me too, especially since just this month I'm finally, for the first time in four years, in a position to host a server again to play with a friend I used to do that a lot with. :sad: I mean, I'll probably still do it, but c'mon, I already migrated from a Minecraft account to a Mojang account some years ago, it's getting ridiculous at this point.

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Quoting: GuestAnd why on earth are Valve marking games as "playable" that still have issues?

Because if they didn't have issue, they'd be marked "verified".

"Playable" means just that: it's possible to play this game on the Steam Deck. Doesn't mean it's crash free, or that you'll never encounter bugs in it (that happens in Windows too for many games). Just that you can play it.

Quoting: whizseThey are still focusing on testing games owned by Deck reservation holders right? So I guess peoples Steam libraries are quite random?

Oh, that's an interesting thought. Did Valve say that somewhere? Would make a lot of sense.

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