It's time for our weekly countdown of the top ten Steam Deck verified and playable games. This week, we have a diverse lineup of titles that will keep you entertained for hours. With over 250 games updated as verified or playable on the Steam Deck this week, we picked the best and most interesting to show you.
10 - Viewfinder
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: July 18, 2023
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 3-6 hours
Daily Players: 450+
Viewfinder is a mind-bending first-person adventure game in which you can bring pictures to life by placing them into the world. Reshape Reality: Beyond photographs, bring paintings, sketches, screenshots and postcards to life while reshaping the world. Exploration is learning: You will learn the secrets of the world, the reason why it exists, and the freedom to create. Explore multiple hub worlds that are all cohesive and encompass similar, but complex, differences.
9 - Rayman Legends
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: August 29, 2013
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 10-31 hours
Daily Players: 100+
When Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies discover a mysterious tent filled with captivating paintings, they are suddenly transported to a series of mythical new worlds! Join them as they run, jump, and slap their way through each world to get home, save the day, and discover the secrets of the legendary paintings!
8 - Dawn of Man
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: March 1, 2019
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 15-93 hours
Daily Players: 650+
The game starts in the Stone Age, and takes you up to the Iron Age, spanning more than 10,000 years of human prehistory. You will have to get your people to survive, expand and evolve, just like our ancestors, facing the challenges that the environment will throw at you.
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: November 6, 2009
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 40-87 hours
Daily Players: 50+
You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of a legendary order of guardians. With the return of an ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon once and for all.
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: December 19, 2014
Steam Rating: Mostly Positive - Time to Beat: 17-79 hours
Daily Players: 3,000+
Take ownership of the story by customizing Arno's equipment to make the experience unique to you, both visually and mechanically. In addition to an epic single-player experience, Assassin’s Creed Unity delivers the excitement of playing with up to three friends through online cooperative gameplay in specific missions.
Steam Deck Compatibility: Verified - Release Date: May 23, 2023
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 9-17 hours
Daily Players: 500+
Play a battle-hardened Space Marine on a perilous mission across the galaxy, as they battle against the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos. In glorious boomer shooter style, unleash your devastating Space Marine arsenal as you blast through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood. Run, jump and charge across huge levels to shoot, shred and slice the worst heretics across the galaxy!
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: March 7, 2017
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 27-82 hours
Daily Players: 4,000+
In a near future, Bolivia has fallen into the hands of Santa Blanca, a merciless drug cartel who spread injustice and violence. Their objective: to create the biggest Narco-State in history. Create and fully customize your Ghost, weapons, and gear. Enjoy total freedom of playstyle. Lead your team and take down the cartel, either solo or with up to three friends.
3 - Remnant II
Steam Deck Compatibility: Verified - Release Date: July 25, 2023
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 20-37 hours
Daily Players: 100,000+
A mix of methodical and frenetic ranged/melee combat returns with cunning enemies and large-scale boss battles. Choose specific gear and weapons to optimize for the different biomes and battles ahead. Players can travel alone or with friends as a team through strange new worlds and beyond, overrun by mythical creatures and deadly foes while trying to stay alive.
Steam Deck Compatibility: Playable - Release Date: June 15, 2023
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: N/A
Daily Players: 43,000+
A chaotic, massively multiplayer online first-person shooter experience with a destructible environment. There's proximity-based voice chat for real-time communication with friendlies and enemies. Plus, enjoy an enhanced netcode for an FPS game, supporting 254 players per server, with high tickrate performance.
Steam Deck Compatibility: Verified - Release Date: July 26, 2023
Steam Rating: Very Positive - Time to Beat: 7,500+
Daily Players: N/A
Go dimension-hopping with Ratchet and Clank as they venture onto your Steam Deck. Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond. With their own universe next in the firing line, dust off the dynamic pair’s outrageous weaponry and stop a dimensional collapse in its tracks! Welcome newcomer Rivet; she’s a Lombax resistance fighter from another dimension who is just as determined to take out the robotic scourge.
Those are 10 of the most exciting Steam Deck games updated this week! Plenty of variety for your portable gaming needs. Let us know which one is your favorite on Twitter (X).