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This is a very conservative number, as well, since ProtonDB is always much further ahead of Steam. Many games are labeled Unverified or Unsupported that have gold status or better on ProtonDB. The article doesn't mention this, but I imagine for the average person, Valve's own ratings are far more relevant.

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OTOH ProtonDBs ratings can be a bit generous, it's not uncommon to see Gold/Platinum rated games with comments detailing the command line incantations or unofficial Proton forks they had to apply to get it to work, and sometimes there's still minor issues. The official ratings mean it really just works out of the box.

There are a lot of games that are marked broken on Steam Deck that work fine.

On the flip side, there are some games that are marked verified that aren't... exactly playable. They run fine, but they weren't designed for controllers (which IMO should affect the rating, given that they mark down more trivial issues like small text or needing the on screen keyboard to enter a name once).

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