{"id":755280,"date":"2026-07-10T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755280\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:02:09","slug":"valves-new-steam-machine-verification-system-is-silent-on-these-steam-deck-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755280\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve’s new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters"},"content":{"rendered":"


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That is frankly unsurprising. But what about the more powerful Steam Machine?<\/p>\n

\n Valve\n <\/p>\n

\n That is frankly unsurprising. But what about the more powerful Steam Machine?<\/p>\n

Valve<\/p>\n


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Well, thanks for nothing, I guess!<\/p>\n

\n Valve\n <\/p>\n

\n Well, thanks for nothing, I guess!<\/p>\n

Valve<\/p>\n

\n That is frankly unsurprising. But what about the more powerful Steam Machine?<\/p>\n

Valve<\/p>\n

\n Well, thanks for nothing, I guess!<\/p>\n

Valve<\/p>\n

Thus far, every such graphically unsupported Steam Deck game we\u2019ve found on the Steam store is currently listed with an \u201cUnknown\u201d Steam Machine compatibility status. For all of these titles, Valve merely says it is \u201cstill learning about\u201d the game and that \u201cwe do not currently have further information regarding Steam Machine compatibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a shame, because many of these games that struggle on the Steam Deck can no doubt run just fine on the much more powerful Steam Machine hardware<\/a>. And new Steam Machine owners will surely want to know whether their fresh living room box can play these games, many of which have appeared on Steam\u2019s Top Sellers list (either currently or in the past).<\/p>\n

We were just wondering\u2026<\/p>\n

There is some good news for Steam Machine users in last night\u2019s Verification update, though. Games with text that is too small to read on the Steam Deck are perfectly fine when played on a big TV. That means Steam Deck \u201cPlayable\u201d games like 007: First Light and Lies of P get bumped up to \u201cVerified\u201d status on the Steam Machine. But games that Valve bumps down to \u201cPlayable\u201d on Steam Deck for requiring an on-screen keyboard still get a similar warning on the Steam Machine, so you might want to keep a wireless keyboard nearby on your couch.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve included a list of nearly two dozen games we\u2019ve found that Valve says can run on SteamOS but can\u2019t run well on Steam Deck, and that Valve has yet to test on the Steam Machine. Hopefully they\u2019ll get the helpful up or down Steam Machine rating they deserve soon (a Valve representative was unavailable to immediately respond to a request for comment from Ars).<\/p>\n

A (very partial) list of SteamOS-compatible games with \u201cUnknown\u201d Steam Machine compatibility (and \u201cUnsupported\u201d Steam Deck status due to graphical requirements):<\/p>\n

Abiotic Factor
\nAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora
\nBlack Myth Wukong
\nDead Space (2023)
\nDragon\u2019s Dogma 2
\nElden Ring Nightreign
\nEnshrouded
\nFinal Fantasy XVI
\nForspoken
\nHell is Us
\nHorizon: Forbidden West
\nMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
\nMetro Exodus
\nNinja Gaiden 2: Black
\nNioh 3
\nResident Evil Requiem
\nReturnal
\nRise of the Ronin
\nStalker 2
\nStarfield
\nThe Quarry
\nUntil Dawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That is frankly unsurprising. But what about the more powerful Steam Machine? Valve That is frankly unsurprising. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-755280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}