At present, Valve launched a brand new Steam Charts web page highlighting the top played games on the Steam Deck. The checklist will probably be up to date each day, revealing what titles are hottest on the hand held.
The checklist features as a brand new discovery methodology for folks to know what to play on their Valve handheld. As the company has pointed out, a Steam sport that runs nice on a desktop PC may not supply the identical expertise on the Steam Deck.
The information for the each day prime 100 performed video games checklist is sourced from a rolling time window of the previous week of stats, as Valve explained in a follow-up post to its initial announcement on X. Nonetheless, based on Valve’s Lawrence Yang, the itemizing isn’t strictly based mostly on the variety of gamers in every sport.
“The metric we’re utilizing to find out top-played is a mix of distinctive customers and curiosity. Hades 2 has solely been out for a month, however so many Steam Deck gamers have it as one in every of their prime performed video games for your entire yr, that it was lifted within the rankings.”
The Verge has reached out to Valve to make clear how curiosity in a sport is being decided. (We’ll replace this publish once we hear again.)
The brand new chart contains the present pricing and promotions for the highest 100 titles (it’s launching on the identical day that Valve’s Summer Sale is getting underway, which features a low cost on the LCD Steam Deck), day-to-day adjustments in every sport’s rating, and whether or not the title is verified for the console so it runs with out compatibility points. The checklist defaults to the previous week, however players may also see the highest 100 Steam Deck video games from the previous month or the previous yr.