Valve's New Steam Machine Verification System Is Silent on These Steam Deck-Busters

Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters

Dozens of titles too taxing for Steam Deck are still unrated for the new hardware.

You can now easily find out if a game is compatible with the Steam Machine

You just have to know where to look on the Steam page.

Steam Now Tells You Which Games Run Well On A Steam Machine

Verification information for the Steam Machine and Steam Deck at last appears for every tested game

Steam Now Shows Steam Machine and SteamOS Verified Ratings

Following the launch of the Steam Machine, Valve has finally rolled out its compatibility rating system for its living room gaming experience in Steam, with a new UI that shows both Steam Machine and SteamOS compatibility ratings. The new UI is only available in SteamOS in the Steam Deck client or in Big Picture mode, which makes sense, since the update is more than likely targeted around the launch of the Steam Machine. It's unclear if Valve wi…

Steam Machine Verified and SteamOS compatibility ratings have quietly arrived on the Steam store

Last Updated on July 10, 2026 You may already be familiar with Valve’s Steam Deck compatibility ratings, found on the right-hand side of any Steam store page. Well, sure enough, that little rating badge is still in its rightful place, but Valve has snuck in a couple of additional ratings under the hood. In addition ...

Steam Machine Verified medals appear on games' store pages overnight, as if left by the Compatibility Fairy

We’ve known for ages that the Steam Machine has a similar game compatibility rating system to the Steam Deck, wherein Valve tests games and slaps them with a Verified, Playable, or Unsupported sticker depending on how much they play technical ball. For the first fortnight and change of the Machine’s release, though, the results of these tests haven’t been visible – alongside the Deck verification info – on those games’ Steam store pages.