Best Steam Deck Verified games
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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.
Top picks
01Terraria
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
2011ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
02Baldur's Gate 3
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.
2023StrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
03Stardew Valley
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?
2016IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
04The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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.
2015RPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
05Left 4 Dead 2
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.
2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
06Subnautica
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.
2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →- Try the recommender →
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07Hollow Knight
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.
2017ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
08Portal 2
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
09Palworld
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
2024ActionIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
10The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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.
2014Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
11ULTRAKILL
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.
2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
12Euro Truck Simulator 2
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.
2012IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
13Hades
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.
2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
14Satisfactory
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!
2024StrategyIndie39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
15Vampire Survivors
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!
2022ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
16PEAK
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?
2025ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
17RimWorld
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.
2018StrategyIndie34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
18Factorio
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.
2020StrategyIndie35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
19Dispatch
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!
2025ActionStrategy23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
20Balatro
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.
2024StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
21Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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.
2025ActionRPG49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
22American Truck Simulator
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.
2016IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
23Half-Life 2
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.
2004Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
24DOOM
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.
2016Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
25Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
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.
2017StrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
26Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
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.
2021StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
27Portal
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.
2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
28Don't Starve Together
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
2016ActionStrategy14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
29Stray
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.
2022IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
30Slay the Spire
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!
2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
31Teardown
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.
2022ActionStrategy29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
32Resident Evil 4
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.
2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
33DELTARUNE
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!
2025IndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
34Hades II
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.
2025ActionIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
35Cuphead
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.
2017ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
36God of War
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.
2022ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
37Celeste
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.
2018ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
38Cult of the Lamb
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.
2022ActionStrategy24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
39Half-Life
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.
1998Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
40Resident Evil 2
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.
2019Action39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
41Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
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.
2022ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
42Detroit: Become Human
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.
2020ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
43Outer Wilds
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.
2020ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
44Oxygen Not Included
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.
2019IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
45DAVE THE DIVER
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.
2023AdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
46It Takes Two
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.
2021ActionAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
47Noita
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.
2020ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
48Persona 4 Golden
A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.
2020RPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
49Castle Crashers®
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
2012ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
50Pizza Tower
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.
2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSimilar games →
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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