{"id":516722,"date":"2026-03-04T00:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/these-are-the-thq-nordic-games-playable-on-steam-deck-at-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:37:15","slug":"these-are-the-thq-nordic-games-playable-on-steam-deck-at-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/these-are-the-thq-nordic-games-playable-on-steam-deck-at-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are The THQ Nordic Games Playable On Steam Deck At Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/these-are-the-thq-nordic-games-playable-on-steam-deck-at-launch.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p> <b>Platform:<\/b> PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC <br \/> <b>Publisher:<\/b> THQ Nordic <br \/> <b>Developer:<\/b> Airship Syndicate <br \/> <b>Release:<\/b> <time datetime=\"2017-10-03T12:00:00Z\" class=\"datetime\">October 3, 2017<\/time> <br \/> <b>Rating:<\/b> Teen <\/p>\n<p>Valve\u2019s Steam Deck launches today, meaning its\u00a0first wave of customers will soon be gaming on a shiny (and very large) handheld PC\u00a0and looking for things to play. The device can\u2019t play every title\u00a0and Steam recently rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/24\/you-can-now-see-which-of-your-steam-library-games-are-compatible-with-the-steam-deck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new library categories<\/a> to better label which of your games work on the Deck and which don\u2019t. Publisher THQ Nordic has assisted on this front by revealing\u00a0which of its many titles are playable on Steam Deck at launch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, THQ has listed the following titles as <strong>Steam Deck Verified<\/strong>. That means they\u2019re fully functional on the handheld:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition<\/li>\n<li>Darksiders Genesis<\/li>\n<li>Desperados III<\/li>\n<li>This is the Police 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next batch of titles is <strong>Steam Deck Playable<\/strong>. This is a step below Verified status because while these games work on the device,\u00a0they may require some manual tweaking to get them running at full capacity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battle Chasers: Nightwar<\/li>\n<li>Biomutant<\/li>\n<li>Darksiders: Warmastered Edition<\/li>\n<li>Destroy All Humans! (2020)<\/li>\n<li>Elex<\/li>\n<li>Expeditions: Rome<\/li>\n<li>MX vs ATV All Out<\/li>\n<li>Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom &#8211; Rehydrated<\/li>\n<li>This is the Police<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are currently over 300 titles confirmed to be playable on Steam Deck and that number will grow as Valve and developers work to get games running on the handheld. Other confirmed titles include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/17\/persona-4-is-finally-steam-deck-compatible\">Persona 4<\/a>, Dota 2, Marvel\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy, Inscryption, and Valheim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Are you getting your hands on a Steam Deck today? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/25\/these-are-the-thq-nordic-games-playable-on-steam-deck-at-launch\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Publisher: THQ Nordic Developer: Airship Syndicate Release: October 3, 2017 Rating: Teen Valve\u2019s Steam Deck launches today, meaning its\u00a0first wave of customers will soon be gaming on a shiny (and very large) handheld PC\u00a0and looking for things to play. The device can\u2019t play every title\u00a0and Steam recently rolled out new library categories to better label which of your games work on the Deck and which don\u2019t. Publisher THQ Nordic has assisted on this front by revealing\u00a0which of its many titles are playable on Steam Deck at launch.\u00a0\u00a0 In a press release, THQ has listed the following titles as Steam Deck Verified. That means they\u2019re fully functional on the handheld: Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition Darksiders Genesis Desperados III This is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/these-are-the-thq-nordic-games-playable-on-steam-deck-at-launch\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":516723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>These Are The THQ Nordic Games Playable On Steam Deck At Launch | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Publisher: THQ 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