Steam Deck Verified/Playable Highlights 1/26/26 - 2/1/26

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There were some big games that got the Steam Deck Verified and Playable badges over the past week. The upcoming Planet of Lana 2 and Earth Must Die got the green checkmarks, while Winnie's Hole and StarRupture are both Playable.

Here are the 10 highlights we found:

Verified or Playable games don't automatically mean they work amazingly out of the box. Some of these games may require work to optimize and play well. Here are our thoughts on the system and how it can be fixed.

Steam Deck Verified/Playable Highlights 1/26/26 - 2/1/26

Planet of Lana 2 (Verified)

As greed and power divide the tribes of their home planet, Lana and her little companion, Mui, must stand together against the forces reshaping their world – struggling not just for survival, but for the soul of their home.

The game will be released this year and can be wishlisted on Steam. It is rated Verified.

Winnie's Hole (Playable)

Join Winnie on a new adventure, from within! Play as a virus in his body and mind. Capture cells to mutate and build a deck of actions to unleash in combo-driven combat. A genre-blending roguelite with a dark yet charming story. Embrace discomfort - Sometimes we can't help being seen as a monster…

The game is on sale for $12.74 until February 9th and is rated Playable due to small in-game text and needing to set the resolution manually.

StarRupture (Playable)

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

The game is $19.99 and is rated Playable due to needing a community controller configuration, showing incorrect controller icons, small in-game text, needing to manually bring up the virtual keyboard, and needing to manually configure the graphical settings for optimal play.

Saints Row The Third Remastered (Playable)

The Full Package, Remastered – With enhanced graphics, improved lighting, reworked environments, and visual effects, Steelport and The Third Street Saints have never looked so good.

The game is $29.99 and is rated Playable due to needing to use the Steam overlay to quit the game.

Red Faction: Armageddon (Playable)

Half a century after the Red Faction resistance and their Marauder allies freed Mars from the brutal Earth Defense Force, harmony on Mars is again threatened but this time by a lethal force shrouded in mystery.
When the massive Terraformer that supplies Mars with its Earth-like air and weather is destroyed, the atmosphere turns to chaos, super-tornados and lightning storms engulf the planet. To survive, the Colonists flee to the underground mines and build a network of habitable caves.

The game is $19.99 and is rated Playable due to showing incorrect controller icons and needing to use the touchscreen to get through the launcher.

Earth Must Die (Verified)

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

The game is on sale for $11.99 until February 10th and is rated Verified.

Night Swarm (Verified)

Claim your throne as Vampire Lord in this survivors-like. Each run is another step on your journey with new followers, quests and skills to unlock. The night is yours to conquer.

The game is on sale for $7.99 until February 3rd and is rated Verified.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy (Playable)

In a dark Cyberpunk world, you (and up to 3 friends) wage war against the all-powerful Federation in this Source-powered FPS/RPG.

The game is $9.99 and is rated Playable due to needing a community controller configuration, showing incorrect controller icons, small in-game text, needing to manually bring up the virtual keyboard, and needing to set the resolution manually.

Sanitarium (Playable)

Originally released in 1998 on PC, and awarded as the Adventure Game of the Year, The timeless horror point-and-click, Sanitarium, is returning to frighten the bravest adventure game fans.

The game is on sale for $4.54 until February 12th and is rated Playable due to needing a community controller configuration and needing to bring up the virtual keyboard manually.

Obey the Voice (Verified)

After an accident, you're uploaded into a consciousness backup. The Voice guides you, trying to uncover who you truly are. But there’s a catch. You have dissociative identity disorder. Obey the Voice is a pressure-driven psychological horror experience built around constant threat, rule-based challenges, where survival depends on attention, timing, and decision-making under extreme stress.

The game is on sale for $6.79 until February 10th and is rated Verified.

And that's all for this week's list! You can check out the previous week's list as well, which includes titles like The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon, Haste, and MENACE.

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