Valve are expanding the Steam Deck Verified system to cover future SteamOS devices

Starting with the Lenovo Legion Go S

Steam Deck owners volition beryllium acquainted with the signifier of peering into a caller game’s Steam store leafage and hoping, begging, praying to immoderate deity is yet to wantonness this cruel gag of a world that it has a small greenish tick people connected it. This is, of course, the Steam Deck Verified programme, wherein Valve gives bully behaviour stickers to games that relation afloat connected their handheld PC.

Soon, this strategy – truthful often a root of alleviation and disappointment – volition beryllium expanded, with a presumption to standing games for compatibility with SteamOS arsenic a whole. As the announcement station explains, that’s due to the fact that the archetypal non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld, a caller mentation of the Lenovo Legion Go S, is launching soon, with the anticipation of much successful the future.

Valve’s compatibility investigating unit presumably can’t effort retired each crippled connected each imaginable SteamOS device, nary substance however galore wheeled desks they tin rotation into the office, arsenic it's an open-source operating strategy that could feasibly tally connected immoderate desktop oregon laptop. But they can, and seemingly will, usage information gleaned from their existing Steam Deck Verified investigating to find whether a crippled has oregon avoids problems with the OS successful particular, subsequently standing it arsenic either SteamOS Compatible oregon SteamOS Unsupported. With a bully bluish tick for the former, aww. As with the existent system’s Verified/Playable/Unsupported ratings, these volition look connected store crippled pages and successful the Steam libraries of anyone playing connected a non-Steam Deck SteamOS PC.

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"We expect implicit 18,000 titles connected Steam to beryllium marked SteamOS Compatible retired of the gate," sayeth the post. While these circumstantial caller categories don’t instrumentality framerate show oregon power input functionality into account, arsenic the Steam Deck ratings do, they should astatine slightest fto you cognize if definite games are literal non-starters. Apex Legends seems owed a SteamOS Unsupported tag, for instance, aft it binned Linux enactment past year.

I haven’t tried the Legion Go S yet, and our adoptive cousins astatine Ian Games Network weren’t particularly impressed with the Windows edition. But the existent authorities of play among portable PCs decidedly has SteamOS supra Windows 11 arsenic the much usable, comfortable, lightweight, and unchangeable OS. One that’s amazingly susceptible of moving non-Steam games, too. As such, I’ll happily get connected committee with thing that some makes SteamOS patronship somewhat easier and mightiness promote aboriginal handheld manufacturers to power over. Valve expect arsenic much, penning that "the lone different officially supported instrumentality moving SteamOS is Lenovo Legion Go S, but we spot this expanding to much devices successful the future."

Exciting times, then, if the conception of the Steam Deck has caught your oculus but you’d alternatively hold and spot what different hardware makers tin bash with a baggable signifier origin and Valve’s ain OS. All that being said, 1 new, lower-spec handheld does not a oversea alteration make, and the precocious leaked Asus ROG Ally 2 looks to stay truthful tied up successful Microsoft’s ecosystem that there’s a abstracted Xbox-branded mentation of it. Bet it doesn’t person tiny colourful ticks, mind.