#Factorio steam full#
What’s the mechanism for re-reviewing games that might not initially be playable, but gain full compatibility later? In terms of Proton support, we know some games use compatible anti-cheat like Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye, but their developers haven’t fully committed to making sure their games will be ready for the Steam Deck at launch. Some examples of this would be titles that require a player to manually select a community controller config, require players to manually bring up the on-screen keyboard for text input, or requires them to use the touchscreen to navigate a launcher. ‘Playable’ games may require some user tweaking – what kind of tweaks are we talking? The review process is going well, and we are generally happy with the spread of compatibility ratings we're seeing so far- especially given that up until now developers haven't had a specific set of targets to aim for. How’s the review process going so far? Are you happy with the number of Verified and Playable games coming through? It will take time to review the Steam catalog (in addition to the new titles that are being launched all the time), and we see some version of this process being in place for the foreseeable future. We've hired an additional group of testers specifically for Steam Deck compatibility, and will continue to hire additional staff to support this group. Steam does have a lot of games, and Valve is putting significant effort into this review program. What kind of resources are being put towards reviewing the entire catalogue, and how much will stay in place to review future game releases?
Here’s what they had to say about the newly-announced compatibility programme, the criteria for Verified status, how Valve and other developers are collaborating to bring games to the Steam Deck, and a sadly hypothetical Gordon Freeman typing trainer. To find out more about how the review and category system will work, I mailed some questions to Valve, and was replied to jointly by Steam Deck designers Greg Coomer and Lawrence Yang, who previously chatted to Katharine about the Steam Deck on its initial reveal. Those green checkmarks show the game has achieved Verified status, and should run without trouble. Steam’s library section will also get a new ‘Great on Deck’ tab solely containing games with Verified status, and even before the Steam Deck is released, Valve are aiming to let Steam users see which of their games will be compatible on launch.
#Factorio steam portable#
When you’re browsing Steam on the Steam Deck, games will display a badge marking their category (and thus degree of compatibility), hopefully making it much easier to know which of your collection will perform on the portable PC. The ‘Unsupported’ category will cover games that aren’t sufficiently functional on the Steam Deck, and the final ‘Unknown’ category will contain games that Valve haven’t reviewed yet. Games that meet all these criteria will find themselves in the ‘Verified’ category, whereas some will enter the ‘Playable’ category if they mostly work outside of needing some settings changes on the user’s part. This reviewing process will focus on four key attributes: input support, native display resolution support (with readable text), general hardware compatibility and compatibility with Proton, including middleware like anti-cheat. So it feels as though sneaky little Factorio cheated the system a bit, even managing to come out above Valve's flagship VR game Half-Life: Alyx which was released in March this year.It’s an ambitious plan, too: Steam games, of which there are tens of thousands, will be manually reviewed by Valve themselves, and assigned to a category denoting how well they work on the Steam Deck. People had been playing the thing for four years prior to that anyway, albeit the Early Access version. This is extra funny because although the game's Version 1.0 did launch in mid-August this year, it doesn't really feel like a new release in the strictest sense. Then there's the fact that Factorio is sitting at number one on Steam's Top Releases of 2020. RELATED: Darkest Dungeon Embraces Lovecraftian Horror in the Most Addictive Way Factorio is listed as having an overall rating of 97.25%, which even beats the likes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (97.09%) and Terraria (96.98%). Like that the only game on Steam with a higher rating is the iconic Portal 2 (97.56%), released almost 10 years ago. There are a few astounding accompanying facts here. This comes after the game has already been comfortably occupying the number two position on Steam's Top Rated Games list for a good long while (again, determined by the same rating algorithm).
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