Steam Deck Verified/Playable Highlights 1/27/25 - 2/2/25

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There were a ton of fantastic new Steam Deck Verified and Playable games this week, with a ton of new and upcoming games here. Sniper Elite: Resistance and Hello Kitty Island Adventure got the green checkmarks, while The Sims Legacy Pack and Heart of the Machine both got the Playable badges.

Here are the 14 highlights we found:

Verified or Playable games don't automatically mean they work amazing 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 1/27/25 - 2/2/25

Sniper Elite: Resistance (Verified)

Offering unparalleled sniping mechanics, stealth and tactical third-person combat, Sniper Elite: Resistance turns the attention of the award-winning series towards a hidden war, far from the front lines, deep within the heart of occupied France.

The game is $49.99 and is rated Verified.

Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Verified)

Embark on a cozy, open-world adventure with Hello Kitty and Friends. Befriend beloved characters as you explore and restore a mysterious island, solve ancient puzzles, cook delicious dishes, customize yourself and your cabins, and so much more.

The game is $39.99 and is rated Verified.

The Sims Legacy Collection (Playable)

The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance — or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.

The game is $19.99 and is rated Playable due to showing incorrect controller icons, needing to manually bring up the virtual keyboard, and small in-game text.

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. (Verified)

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. takes the gameplay of Virtua Fighter 5 and raises it to new levels! Rollback Netcode support, gorgeous 4K visuals and additional content make it the best version of this legendary game ever.

The game is on sale for $15.99 until February 10th and is rated Verified.

Heart of the Machine (Playable) (SDHQ Review)

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

The game is on sale for $23.99 until February 14th and is rated Playable due to showing incorrect controller icons and small in-game text.

For Sale (Verified)

The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?

The game is $5.99 and is rated Verified.

Rift of the Necrodancer (Playable)

The NecroDancer's back in an all-new rhythm game! Dragged into a strange new world, Cadence must engage in musical combat with monsters surging through the Rift! Face pulse-pounding Rhythm Rifts where every beat is a battle, all set to an original soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky & friends.

The game will be released on February 5th and is rated Playable due to showing incorrect controller icons.

Tetris Forever (Verified)

Unrivaled after four decades, Tetris Forever celebrates the original, genre-inspiring puzzle game that escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, onto the world stage, and into our cultural consciousness! More than 15 playable classic games from the series' history are featured, including many being released for the first time outside Japan. Battle your friends in the multiplayer cult favorite Tetris Battle Gaiden, create massive explosions to clear lines in Super Bombliss, and see where it all began in 1984 with an accurate recreation of the first version of Tetris on the Electronika 60 computer.

The game is $34.99 and is rated Verified.

Airborne Empire (Playable)

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

The game is $29.99 and is rated Playable due to showing incorrect controller icons,needing to manually bring up the virtual keyboard, small in-game text, and needing to manually change graphics settings.

Food Delivery Simulator (Playable)

Live the life of a food delivery driver. Deliver orders, earn money, upgrade your vehicle, explore a vast city, and make way to your success. Dive into a realistic daily adventure and level up to become the best delivery driver.

The game is $7.99 and is rated Playable due to needing a community controller configuration, showing incorrect controller icons, and small in-game text.

Aloft (Playable)

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

The game is $24.99 and is rated Playable due to small in-game text and needing to manually configure graphics settings.

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Verified)

Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down as a group the slopes sharing a small number of checkpoints, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!

The game is $24.99 and is rated Verified.

Botworld Odyssey (Verified)

Venture out into a huge and diverse open world to discover new bots, collect rare scrap to build them, and deploy them in tactical real-time battles on your quest to become the world’s greatest Botmaster.

The game is $25 and is rated Verified.

Nova Drift (Verified)

Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

The game is $17.99 and is rated Verified.

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