Gamers who buy Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine will find it has a much larger library of Verified games on day one than the Steam Deck did, since Valve will place “fewer constraints” on game developers seeking Verified status.
Thanks to its powerful hardware and more traditional controller options, getting games to a comfortably playable standard on the Steam Machine will be much easier, and that means more Verified badge games right from the start, Valve tells Game Developer.
When the Steam Deck launched in early 2022, it had several hundred Verified games and a few hundred more that were considered playable. Today, that total is well over 20,000 and continues to increase, but Steam Machine verification could catch up almost immediately.
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