Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch

Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzmod to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz – 431 points –
Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch
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This is just talking about games approved through Valve's verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are "unverified", not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21835717

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@Fubarberry My one wish is they (Valve, Nintendo, etc.) could make discovery easier and more useful. It takes a lot of effort finding new games to play that aren't the usual major releases and obvious indie titles.

Edit: The two resources I use are https://bestofsteam.com/ and https://steam250.com/

Valve actually does a lot to make discovery easier, compared to Nintendo:

You really can't say Valve wouldn't do a lot to help with discovery.

@thingsiplay I've only been actively using Steam for about a year and wasn't aware of everything you mentioned. I appreciate the detailed reply. That's all very helpful.

Guess Valve needs a discovery for the discovery tools.^^ Glad it helped.

I'll check those out. I've been doing the "steam discovery queue" for awhile now though, and it feels like if you do it enough you won't ever miss anything of interest. I think it can work pretty well for game discovery, you just need to invest some time in it every day to get through all the more "common" recommendations.

Thanks for these links!

Steam has a built in discovery queue that contains a list of games it thinks you might like (and it it infinite, so it technically contains every game on the platform)