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Games: Valve, Game Slowrunning, and New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck
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Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support [Ed: Rootkits]
Steam Machine’s upcoming release means more people will be playing games on Linux, specifically SteamOS. The idea of ditching Windows for gaming is becoming more attractive, as the Steam Machine is first-party desktop-level hardware that’s optimized for Linux-based SteamOS. The biggest hurdle for Linux gamers right now is a lack of support for many anti-cheats – particular those that require kernel-level access. But with the release of the Machine, Valve hopes game devs take notice.
Steam Machine seems to getting the most attention out of Valve’s latest hardware launches. The Steam creators announced the new console-like mini PC alongside the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Controller. Even the Frame runs on SteamOS, which means Valve now has a trio of first-party hardware on Linux (including the Steam Deck handheld).
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Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar H. Gunderson: Game slowrunning
In 2013, I finished Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (on emulator), which I'd first played the summers of 1992 and 1993 (or thereabouts). At ~20 years between first start and first finish, it's a kind of weird opposite of speedrunning, and a personal best for me.
But this weekend, I trounced that record; in 1990 (I think!), we got a 512 kB RAM expansion for the Amiga 500 for the first time, which allowed us to play our warezed copy of Pool of Radiance without understanding much of the story or really reading that much English. And a couple of weeks ago, I realized that I had bought the game on GOG.com in 2018 and not done much about it… and went to finish it.
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Windswept - 2025-11-15 Edition
Between 2025-11-08 and 2025-11-15 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. There’s a big AAA game like the new Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road (which is a really great cross-over between RPG and soccer), and also a new 2D gem called Windswept that plays a lot like Donkey Kong Country back on the SuperNES, and is a lot of fun.