Best Steam Deck games of 2023 (According to Valve)

Valve released a list of the best games on Steam Deck, available here. They unfortunately only included games that are with a Playable or Verified status badge.

I've also added some notes about games I've played myself!

Platinum

• Cyberpunk 2077 - It had a rough start, but it's not one of the better games after over two years of patches. The story is bittersweet!
• Vampire Survivors - One of the most played games on Steam Deck. There's a reason for it as well - it's addicting!
• Baldur's Gate 3 - One of the most well-received games on Steam Deck. Be warned that Act 3 is very unoptimised and practically nothing can help with the framerate issues!
• Grand Theft Auto 5
• Dave the Diver
• Starfield
• Half-Life 1 - My all-time favourite game on PC. I however can't really get used to FPS games on controllers, but good that others can!
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - It just had an official remaster, with a compilation of the most popular user created mods. An amazing game made better!
• Resident Evil 4
• Elden Ring - A Souls game in an open world. Great on the Steam Deck!

Gold

• Stardew Valley - The most chill game on Steam Deck.
• Street Fighter 6
• Red Dead Redemption 2 - The most beautiful game on Steam Deck. And it runs really nice!
• DREDGE
• Hades - This game had me hooked and it's amazing on the Steam Deck. I recommend everybody this game, knowing Hades 2 also has a sequel coming.
• Sea of Stars
• Counter Strike 2
• Halls of Torment - it's essentially Vampire Survivors + Diablo hellish aesthetics. I love it.
• Risk of Rain Returns
• Dead Cells
• Diablo 4
• Brotato

Silver

• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Overwatch 2
• Cult of the Lamb
• God of War - BOY!
• Fallout 4
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• Coral Island
• The Last of Us Part 1
• Lethal Company
• Octopath Traveler 2
• Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Volume 1
• Remnant 2 - A great game that's unfortunately relatively not that known. I recommend it to everybody as well!
• Hi-Fi Rush
• Star Ocean The Second Story R
• Slay the Spire
• The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
• Marvel's Midnight Suns
• Sons of the Forest
• HoloCure - Save the Fans!
• Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
• Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
• Monster Hunter: World
• Persona 5 Royal
• No Man's Sky - This game had a very rocky start on release many years ago. Over the years, the developers proved themselves to fix the game and it's now one of the most recommended exploration/grinding game!
• NBA 2K23

There's also last year's results if you'd like to compare. Lots of familiar faces!

Reminder - Don't limit yourself to Playable/Verified

There's a lot of games the Steam Deck (or Linux in general) can play that is actually playable.

• Most singleplayer games work, or work with tweaks (check ProtonDB)
• Even games with proprietary requires hardware (Such as Rocksmith's Real Tone Cable) also work, with some simple tweaks (again, ProtonDB)
• Games that do NOT work are using Anti-cheat that do not work on Linux