Someone at Valve must have a very sore green-stamping wrist

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An unusually busy May for game releases is turning into an unusually bounteous month for the Steam Deck , with Valve granting their seal of handheld PC approval – Steam Deck Verified status – to a wave of new and upcoming games. Among these are the early access version of Subnautica 2 , which finally launches this week after what feels like eons of legal sniping , as well as open-world racer Forza Horizon 6 and caped minifig crusade Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight .

A game earning a Verified checkmark denotes it as fully Deck-ready, in terms of performance, control compatibility, and general legibility on the dinky 800p screen.…