Rank 01Best Steam Deck Verified games
- 50 games
- Deck Verified
- Mostly Positive+
- Updated Nov 11, 2026
Top 10
- Rank 01
Rank 02About: Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
- $59.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Strategy
- 2023
Rank 03About: You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Indie
- 2016
Rank 04About: You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
- $49.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- RPG
- 2015
Rank 05About: Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Action
- 2009
Rank 06About: Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
- $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Indie
- 2018
Rank 07About: Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Action
- 2017
Rank 08
Rank 09About: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
- $14.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Action
- 2014
Rank 10About: ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
- $29.99 (Price checked Nov 10)
- Deck Verified
- Action
- 2020
Ranked 11 to 50
Rank 11 
Euro Truck Simulator 2
About: Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Rank 12 
Hades
About: Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Rank 13 
Satisfactory
About: Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Rank 14 
Vampire Survivors
About: Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Rank 15 
PEAK
About: PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Rank 16 
RimWorld
About: A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Rank 17 
Factorio
About: Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Rank 18 
Dispatch
About: Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Rank 19 
Balatro
About: The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Rank 20 
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
About: Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Rank 21 
American Truck Simulator
About: Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Rank 22 
Half-Life 2
About: Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Rank 23 
DOOM
About: Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Rank 24 
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
About: The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Rank 25 
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
About: Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Rank 26 
Portal
About: Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Rank 27 
Don't Starve Together
About: Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Rank 28 
Stray
About: Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
Rank 29 
Slay the Spire
About: We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Rank 30 
Teardown
About: Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Rank 31 
Resident Evil 4
About: Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Rank 32 
DELTARUNE
About: Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!
Rank 33 
Hades II
About: Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Rank 34 
Cuphead
About: Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Rank 35 
God of War
About: His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
Rank 36 
Celeste
About: Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Rank 37 
Cult of the Lamb
About: Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Rank 38 
Half-Life
About: Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Rank 39 
Resident Evil 2
About: A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
Rank 40 
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
About: In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in an original action-packed story. Play as an experienced Peter Parker, fighting big crime and iconic villains in Marvel’s New York. Web-swing through vibrant neighborhoods and defeat villains with epic takedowns.
Rank 41 
Detroit: Become Human
About: Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Rank 42 
Outer Wilds
About: Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Rank 43 
Resident Evil Requiem
About: Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Rank 44 
Oxygen Not Included
About: Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Rank 45 
DAVE THE DIVER
About: DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.
Rank 46 
It Takes Two
About: Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Rank 47 
Noita
About: Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Rank 48 
Persona 4 Golden
About: A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
Rank 49 
Castle Crashers®
About: Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Rank 50 
Pizza Tower
About: Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
About this list
Steam Deck Verified is Valve's own quality stamp: full controller support, legible text at Deck resolution, and default settings that work without any manual adjustments. Valve runs the certification test against each game build — 50 titles have passed to date. This list ranks every Verified title by review consensus first, audience size second, so highly-rated indies aren't buried under franchise releases with mediocre scores and at least 100 player verdicts. Unlike Steam's Verified database, which lists every certified title with no quality filter and sorted by relevance or release date, imho.run ranks purely by review signal — so a beloved 500-review indie beats a midrange franchise blockbuster. Updated daily from imho.run's catalogue refresh; newly certified titles appear within 24 hours of Valve publishing the rating.
Frequently asked
What's the difference between Deck Verified and Deck Playable?
Valve runs both labels. Deck Verified means the game works out of the box — full controller support, default settings, legible text at Deck resolution. Deck Playable means it runs, but expects some manual setup: re-mapping a control, switching to a community config, or accepting on-screen keyboard prompts.
Do Verified games need any setup on Steam Deck?
Verified is specifically the level Valve guarantees no setup. Open the game and it launches with sensible defaults, every UI element is readable, and every menu can be navigated with the Deck's built-in controls. If you need to remap a button or change a graphics preset, it's still Verified — but Playable is for games where one of those steps is required to play comfortably.
Can I trust Valve's Verified label?
Mostly. The label is awarded after Valve's own QA, so the floor is reliable. Community reports occasionally flag regressions when a game ships an update that breaks the Verified contract — Valve usually re-tests within a few weeks. The status on each tile here mirrors Valve's current label.
How often is the Steam Deck Verified list updated?
Once per day. Newly Verified titles enter the day after Valve publishes the rating; games that get downgraded or removed from the Deck programme leave the list on the same cycle. imho.run's scraper rebuilds the catalogue daily over the public Steam APIs.
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