Check out some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released

2 Nov 2026 at 3:02 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

Here's some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during October 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go! Be sure to also check out the best Native Linux releases from October 2026 and also the most played games on Steam Deck for October 2026.

A top 15 based on user reviews, to help you cut through the noise since there's thousands releasing all the time. The Steam Deck Verified library is packed full with some fantastic experiences across all different genres. Perhaps you might find your next favourite thanks to this!

Since they are all fully Steam Deck Verified, you should be able to just hit play and away you go on your adventures. That said, sometimes, Valve don't get the rating quite right but it's largely fine. As a bonus - they should all work great on the Steam Machine too and other SteamOS Linux systems.

For this list, games with an AI Generated Content Disclosure on Steam were excluded.

Enshrouded

Survival RPG
Review Score: Very Positive (52,376 reviews)
Release Date: 15/10/2026
Current Price: £34.99
"Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first. Conquer the Shroud, a corrupting fog devouring the kingdom of Embervale: explore a handcrafted world full of secrets, forge your hero your way, and build anything, anywhere in a fully terraformable land."

SULFUR

Action Adventure
Review Score: Very Positive (6,627 reviews)
Release Date: 28/10/2026
Current Price: £24.50
"SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end."

STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™

Racing
Review Score: Very Positive (6,117 reviews)
Release Date: 06/10/2026
Current Price: £49.99
"STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ is a ​runs-based, ​high-stakes reinvention of racing born in the lawless Outer Rim. With the Empire gone and the galaxy rebuilding, The Galactic League is created: an underground, unsanctioned circuit where syndicates bankroll chaos and champions are forged."

Tape to Tape

Sports Roguelite
Review Score: Very Positive (3,719 reviews)
Release Date: 23/10/2026
Current Price: £16.75
"Tape to Tape is a roguelite hockey game where every choice matters on your journey to build the best hockey team. Choose your path, hire unique players, discover synergies between them, pick unique abilities, bribe the referees or visit the Blademaster on your way to restore hockey's former glory."

over the hill

Driving / Exploration sim
Review Score: Very Positive (3,159 reviews)
Release Date: 14/10/2026
Current Price: £22.49
"Explore the world in the golden age of offroading. Drive iconic 4x4 vehicles from the 60s to 80s by yourself or with friends through challenging trails and beautiful scenery."

FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE

RPG
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,671 reviews)
Release Date: 22/10/2026
Current Price: £39.99
"Return to the pixel‑art world of FINAL FANTASY, evolved from its classic roots. Travel with companions bound by fate and call on Visions to aid you in battle to uncover the truth behind a force that threatens to bring everything to ruin."

Silver Pines

Survival horror metroidvania
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (2,298 reviews)
Release Date: 08/10/2026
Current Price: £21.99
"Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption."

REKA

Adventure
Review Score: Very Positive (2,103 reviews)
Release Date: 26/10/2026
Current Price: £10.39 (-35%)
"Step into a cozy, witchy world inspired by Slavic folklore. Build, decorate, and customize your walking chicken-legged cottage as you wander through misty autumn woodlands. Help local villagers, tame forest creatures, and learn gentle witchcrafts under the tutelage of the great witch Baba Jaga."

Order of the Sinking Star

Puzzle Adventure
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (1,890 reviews)
Release Date: 08/10/2026
Current Price: £26.75
"From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a massive puzzle adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving gameplay mechanics, and decipher a grand mystery."

CRACK

Casual co-op sim
Review Score: Very Positive (1,482 reviews)
Release Date: 26/10/2026
Current Price: £5.94 (-15%)
"Why is there a giant egg in this lab? Your job is simple: crack it open. Don't ask questions. CRACK is a 1-4 player co-op incremental adventure about uncovering what's inside a mysterious giant egg."

Tenebris Somnia

Retro Survival Horror
Review Score: Very Positive (1,476 reviews)
Release Date: 16/10/2026
Current Price: £17.99
"Tenebris Somnia is a 2D retro survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes created by an award winning film crew from Argentina. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles and fighting horrible creatures. ...What if they aren't just nightmares?"

Arknights: Endfield

RPG
Review Score: Very Positive (1,369 reviews)
Release Date: 14/10/2026
Current Price: Free
Free
"Arknights: Endfield is a 3D real-time strategy RPG from Gryphline. You will take on the role of the Endministrator of Endfield Industries, explore Talos-II, and defend and expand the frontiers of human civilization."

Queen's Domain

Action RPG
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (1,185 reviews)
Release Date: 30/10/2026
Current Price: £13.59 (-15%)
"A retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration. Embark on a quest to find your father who disappeared on the mysterious Isle of Neasied, where sinister forces gather, secrets hide everywhere, and the sleeping Queen has begun to stir…"

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2

Retro FPS
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (1,000 reviews)
Release Date: 14/10/2026
Current Price: £22.49
"Obliterate heretics in the name of the Emperor in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2! Play as Ultramarine Malum Caedo or Sister of Battle Nyra Veyrath in this sequel to retro FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun with MORE enemies, MORE weapons, and NEW ways to purge!"

Cucina Stellata

Adventure
Review Score: Overwhelmingly Positive (977 reviews)
Release Date: 20/10/2026
Current Price: Free
Free
"Cook traditional 19th-century Italian recipes in a kitchen haunted by hunger. A short psychological horror where gastronomy, ritual and cosmic appetite share the same table."

That's it for this little October 2026 Steam Deck round-up. Be sure to keep checking back on GamingOnLinux for more quick news tips, reviews, editorials, fun lists and so on!

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