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With the Summer Sale closed and Social Deduction Fest wrapping up, Steam's regular Weeklong Deals rotation just kicked off a fresh round of storewide discounts through July 20 — from 55% off Assassin's Creed Shadows to a $0.99 Surgeon Simulator. Checked today in USD, with Steam Deck notes.
A July 10 Steam Deck Beta Client update surfaces Steam Machine Verified and SteamOS compatibility info directly on game capsules in Home and on game detail pages, alongside Remote Play and Steam Workshop fixes.
Social Deduction Fest opened today, July 13, and runs through July 16. Skip the free-to-play noise — here are the three paid games with real cuts worth your money, plus three free picks to fill out the lobby.
Square Enix's HD-2D turn-based RPG, the first mainline-adjacent Final Fantasy built around the mobile hit Brave Exvius, has already earned Valve's top compatibility rating on both Steam Deck and Steam Machine three months before it ships.
The Steam Summer Sale wrapped July 9, but Valve's next themed event is only three days out. Social Deduction Fest runs July 13–16 with deep discounts on deception and hidden-identity games — here are 7 picks worth wishlisting now, checked at today's regular USD pricing.
A new Great On Frame page just went live on the Steam store, Portal 2's compatibility rating quietly jumped from Playable to Verified, and shipment trackers now count 15 crates of Steam Frame hardware headed to Valve — all pointing at a launch within weeks.
The Steam Summer Sale 2026 wraps today, July 9. Here's a checked-live roundup of the sale's best AAA blockbuster deals in USD — from a $14.99 Red Dead Redemption 2 to Baldur's Gate 3's best-ever discount — with Steam Deck compatibility notes.
A bug-fix release for DXVK, the Direct3D-to-Vulkan layer behind Proton, cleans up rendering regressions in Black Mesa, Gothic 3, and GTA IV, plus a shader bug that broke MSAA in Fallout 3 — all without waiting on a full Proton update.
From $1.99 for Portal 2 to a 90%-off INSIDE, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has some of its sharpest cuts sitting in puzzle games and platformers. A checked-today roundup in USD, with one last-day city-builder pick, before the sale ends July 9.
After five beta builds, Valve shipped Proton 11.0-1 to stable on July 7, rebasing on Wine 11.0 and moving over a dozen games — including the original Resident Evil and Dino Crisis — out of Experimental for good.
From a 90%-off Ghostwire: Tokyo to a $1.99 reverse-horror cult favorite, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has deep cuts across AAA remakes, zombie classics, and indie horror. A checked-today roundup in USD, with two days left and Steam Deck notes.
A developer's Climbey test video accidentally revealed Steam Frame's home environment: Aurora, the same customizable starfield Valve built for Index, spotted alongside better tracking and performance ahead of an expected launch.
From a 90%-off Far Cry 4 to a $2 co-op FPS classic, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has strong cuts on games built for playing with friends. A checked-today roundup in USD, with Steam Deck and Steam Machine notes.
Valve's SteamOS 3.8.14 update fixes a bug where certain routers advertising incorrect MCS requirements were capping WiFi to lower speeds — throttling game downloads on Steam Deck and Steam Machine alike.
From a $10 all-time-low Divinity: Original Sin 2 to a 90%-off Civilization VI, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has some of its best cuts sitting in RPGs and strategy games. A checked-today roundup in USD, with Steam Deck notes.
From a 92%-off Metro trilogy bundle to boomer shooters under $4, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has some of its deepest cuts sitting in the FPS genre. A checked-today roundup in USD, with Steam Deck notes.
Two days after Diablo IV's Season 14 update broke Proton compatibility, Valve quietly shipped a Proton Hotfix that gets the game working again on Steam Deck and SteamOS — while Blizzard's own promised patch still hasn't landed.
Solo developer TobiasM Games made Pet Chamber, an unsettling tamagotchi-horror game about caring for a monster, entirely on a Steam Deck using Godot Engine's native Linux support.
From a 90%-off Assetto Corsa Competizione to Verified truck sims under $5, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has some of the deepest racing and driving discounts of the year. A checked-today roundup in USD.
Valve shipped SteamOS 3.8.13 to stable on July 1, fixing a Final Fantasy VII Rebirth crash-on-launch bug and a controller firmware update failure. The parallel 3.8.21 beta goes further, speeding up the Steam Machine boot splash and patching MSI Claw, Legion Go, and OneXPlayer controller regressions.
Valve's unreleased Steam Frame headset just got its first compatibility badge: Portal 2 scored Playable, failing only the native-resolution check. Day of Defeat scored Unsupported the same day — the clearest sign yet that a Steam Frame launch is close.
Beyond the AAA headliners, the Steam Summer Sale 2026 has some of the deepest indie discounts of the year — including two all-time lows. Here's a checked-today roundup in USD.
The Steam Summer Sale runs through July 9 with cuts up to 90% off. Here's a checked-today roundup of the best USD deals worth grabbing, including strong picks for Steam Deck.
Valve's Steam Machine started shipping June 30 at $1,049. The first wave of reviews agrees on almost everything: beautifully built, silent, SteamOS is a joy — and the memory-crisis price tag exposes underpowered internals.
Ubisoft's remake of the 2013 pirate classic ships with a Steam Deck Verified badge on day one, plus ray tracing, dynamic weather, and full Steam feature support.
SteamOS 3.8.20 Beta ships a major Mesa driver bump with ray-tracing gains and, more importantly, the VRAM management overhaul Valve contractor Natalie Vock has been building since spring — a fix that nearly doubled performance on VRAM-starved GPUs in early testing.
New benchmarks confirm what Valve quietly admitted last week: shipping the Steam Machine with one 16GB RAM stick instead of two costs real performance in CPU-heavy games like Baldur's Gate 3, while GPU-bound titles barely notice.
Valve quietly built AMD's FSR 4.1.1 upscaler into Proton Experimental, auto-upgrading any FSR 3.1 game on RDNA 3 hardware — including the Steam Machine's GPU, in the same week the console started shipping.
Valve pushed a new Steam Deck Client update on June 30 that moves the Maximum Game Resolution setting out of the Advanced submenu, warns you when a game is rendering below native resolution, and bundles more Steam Machine compatibility fixes as the console starts reaching doorsteps.
Diablo IV's Season of Death Awakening launched on July 1 and immediately broke Proton compatibility — the game quits a few seconds after launch on Steam Deck and SteamOS. Blizzard's first emergency patch didn't fix it, and a second attempt is coming.
Guide to using the Eclipse Mod on Steam Deck to optimize The Witcher 3 Next-Gen performance, addressing CPU bottlenecks and offering configurations for stable 40FPS or higher framerates.
ARC Raiders is playable on Steam Deck with Deck Verified status, but requires careful graphics adjustments to maintain 40-50 FPS for competitive gameplay.
The Eclipse Mod uses frame generation and FSR 3.1 technology to enable Cyberpunk 2077 to run at 60 FPS on Steam Deck. However, installation requires technical knowledge and involves system file modifications.
The Eclipse Performance Framework optimizes Hogwarts Legacy for handheld devices by re-engineering asset pipelines. When combined with FSR 4, it transforms the game from struggling at 22-32 FPS to achieving 48-60 FPS across different locations.
The Steam Deck Eclipse Mod is a community-developed graphics optimization tool that disables resource-heavy features to improve performance on demanding games. It trades visual fidelity for playable framerates on titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and Silent Hill 2.