I mean sure, but should we also list all the games you can’t even purchase on consoles?
The “poking and prodding” is literally just settings that you are locked out of on consoles. Literally just purchase games that are verified steam deck compatible, and you’re golden.
If you can’t even purchase a game on a console, you will never struggle to get it to run or pick it up at retail only to find when you get home that your TPM/secureboot config isn’t up to snuff, which is the bleeding edge trend.
I wish the verification process was bulletproof, but it’s not. Stuff like Eternal Strands get released and manage that coveted green checkmark, but end up performing poorly and looking like hot garbage. Looks and plays great on a normal PC though.
Generally the verified deck games are great but the verified profile for that game just… isn’t. It’s certainly playable, but the framerate drops are frustrating in a game that isn’t very easy. There’s no particular objective measurement that gives a game a certain level that i’m aware of.
Then there are games that are given a black mark of “unsupported” by the Steam Deck verification system but run wonderfully like Ghost of Tsushima. There’s a multiplayer mode in the almost exclusively single player open world RPG that doesn’t work on the deck, so it’s entirely disqualified despite being completely functional, absolutely gorgeous and running at very solid framerates on the deck.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the deck and think it’s a giant leap in the right direction with PC gaming, making it a lot more console-like for the plebs. I am realistic for this though. It’s still a poweruser tier device, especially if you want to play niche games or indie titles. The best experience imo is when you tinker and get it to run all manner of programs from competing app stores… and then you’re completely away from the on-rails console-like experience. Even getting chiaki4deck going is a poweruser task.
I mean sure, but should we also list all the games you can’t even purchase on consoles?
The “poking and prodding” is literally just settings that you are locked out of on consoles. Literally just purchase games that are verified steam deck compatible, and you’re golden.
If you can’t even purchase a game on a console, you will never struggle to get it to run or pick it up at retail only to find when you get home that your TPM/secureboot config isn’t up to snuff, which is the bleeding edge trend.
I wish the verification process was bulletproof, but it’s not. Stuff like Eternal Strands get released and manage that coveted green checkmark, but end up performing poorly and looking like hot garbage. Looks and plays great on a normal PC though.
Generally the verified deck games are great but the verified profile for that game just… isn’t. It’s certainly playable, but the framerate drops are frustrating in a game that isn’t very easy. There’s no particular objective measurement that gives a game a certain level that i’m aware of.
Then there are games that are given a black mark of “unsupported” by the Steam Deck verification system but run wonderfully like Ghost of Tsushima. There’s a multiplayer mode in the almost exclusively single player open world RPG that doesn’t work on the deck, so it’s entirely disqualified despite being completely functional, absolutely gorgeous and running at very solid framerates on the deck.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the deck and think it’s a giant leap in the right direction with PC gaming, making it a lot more console-like for the plebs. I am realistic for this though. It’s still a poweruser tier device, especially if you want to play niche games or indie titles. The best experience imo is when you tinker and get it to run all manner of programs from competing app stores… and then you’re completely away from the on-rails console-like experience. Even getting chiaki4deck going is a poweruser task.