Valve will soon let you know if a game is compatible with your SteamOS device

Ahead of the merchandise of the Lenovo Legion Go S moving SteamOS aboriginal this month, Valve has announced a caller compatibility standing system for SteamOS devices. As the sanction implies, the caller SteamOS Compatibility strategy volition complaint however compatible games are with third-party devices, akin to however Valve already rates the compatibility of games for its ain Steam Deck.

The caller standing volition lone amusement up connected devices moving SteamOS that aren’t a Steam Deck and are designed to rapidly bespeak to users if each of a game’s features and functionality, including immoderate anti-cheat tools it whitethorn beryllium using, are afloat supported by the OS. Games volition beryllium marked arsenic either “SteamOS Compatible” oregon “SteamOS Unsupported” successful the Steam Store and Steam Client.

The standing “does not see investigating results for show and input, since we volition not cognize (and person not tested) however each titles volition tally connected each imaginable hardware,” arsenic Valve points retired successful an announcement shared to its assemblage pages yesterday. But the institution expects “over 18,000 titles connected Steam to beryllium marked SteamOS compatible retired of the gate.”

Because the caller ratings are “automatically generated from Steam Deck verification results without further testing,” Valve says that developers don’t request to instrumentality immoderate further steps to guarantee their games are compatible with third-party SteamOS devices. “If your rubric already has a Steam Deck Compatibility rating, an automated process volition usage that information to springiness it a SteamOS Compatibility rating.”

The Legion Go S volition beryllium the first handheld gaming PC to commercialized Windows for SteamOS, the gaming-focused operating strategy that powers Valve’s Steam Deck.