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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It is much higher. Those are just the officially approved numbers. You can get a lot more games than that working though. Most will probably run out of the box anyway, or with just slight tinkering, assuming the performance of the Deck suffices of course. You may have to create custom control mappings though.

[–] Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Slight tinkering and slight annoyances. Like some text is hard to read or unreadable, button/key prompts are wrong. Frame limiting being wonky, sound glitches. But all in all still amazing to be able to play your stuff on the go.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Yup. I've just been purchasing games without the Verified tag now because I'll just be like: "yeah that seems like it'd work and it typically does".

I made the mistake of installing Stardew Valley on it for 1.6. Oof, I'm playing it everywhere. Very bad when you can't handle your addictions well.

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Some aren’t even that egregious. A game having a launcher, or requiring you to manually bring up the keyboard, for example, keeps it from being verified.

So Monster Hunter Rise, a game that works flawlessly, launched as “playable” because it required you to manually evoke the keyboard when typing your name in character creation.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, a few examples from my own Deck include Rymdkapsel (works perfectly, not verified or marked as Chromebook Ready), Surviving Mars (playable, but not rated) and Turmoil (explicitly unsupported, but works fine).

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter for how they're measuring. None of those games are marked as either Verified or Playable by Valve, so they're not included in these statistics, despite working fine on the Deck.

[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's mouse and keyboard only though, not impossible but for someone who doesn't want to fiddle with Steam Input bindings it's a bit of a pain.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which one of the three games I listed are you talking about?

[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was talking about Turmoil, should've been more clear on that, sorry.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think their rating of unsupported is correct. It's pretty easy to play with the default configuration though (touchpad as mouse).

[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is true, a lot of games can be played easily with the WASD + Mouse keybinds. Not unusable by any means, but it can be frustrating for people who get thrown off by the on screen prompts corresponding differently than what their controls actually are.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In cases like what you listed I believe they normally mark it as playable with a note that the button names might not align.