Valve made a Steam Deck Verified program for things that aren't Steam Decks

Steam announced this week that it volition connection a compatibility standing that volition designate erstwhile a crippled is supported connected the company's operating system. The SteamOS Compatibility appraisal is slated to rotation retired "in the adjacent fewer weeks."

This metric is an hold of the Steam Deck Verified program, and it volition grant a checkmark to games based connected a information subset wrong that vetting process. In different words, crippled developers won't person to instrumentality immoderate further steps if they're already completing Steam Deck Verified. On the subordinate end, compatible games volition amusement a bluish checkmark erstwhile viewed successful the Steam Store and Steam Client portion moving the operating strategy connected a instrumentality different than the Steam Deck.

The announcement is mostly a future-proofing move. Right now, the Lenovo Legion Go S is the lone handheld too the Steam Deck that's officially moving Valve's operating system. But Lenovo was already teasing a 2nd iteration of the hardware astatine CES this twelvemonth and Valve intelligibly has plans for the fig of SteamOS platforms to grow. The scenery for handheld gaming could commencement looking rather antithetic if SteamOS truly takes disconnected arsenic a standalone service.