Valve made a Steam Deck Verified program for ...

Steam this week that it’ll provide a compatibility ranking that can designate when a recreation is supported on the corporate’s working system. The SteamOS Compatibility evaluation is slated to roll out “within the subsequent few weeks.”

This metric is an extension of the Steam Deck Verified program, and it’ll award a checkmark to video games primarily based on an information subset inside that vetting course of. In different phrases, recreation builders will not should take any further steps in the event that they’re already finishing Steam Deck Verified. On the participant finish, appropriate video games will present a blue checkmark when seen within the Steam Retailer and Steam Shopper whereas working the working system on a tool aside from the Steam Deck.

The announcement is generally a future-proofing transfer. Proper now, the is the one handheld apart from the Steam Deck that is formally working Valve’s working system. However Lenovo was already a second iteration of the {hardware} at CES this 12 months and Valve clearly has plans for the variety of SteamOS platforms to develop. The panorama for might begin wanting fairly totally different if SteamOS actually takes off as a standalone service.