Things are wanting brighter for Valve’s Steam Deck and its potential recreation library. On Friday, the corporate announced titles that depend upon Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software program can now run on the moveable. Valve stated including Steam Deck assist to titles that make the most of EAC is “a simple process.” Developers gained’t must replace their SDK model or make different time-consuming adjustments. With Valve including via its Proton compatibility layer for Linux late final yr, the corporate stated, “this means the two largest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and Steam Deck.” In apply, that ought to imply extra of your favourite video games will work with Valve’s handheld when it launches subsequent month.

Of course, it’s one factor for Valve to make it simple for builders to make sure their video games run with out challenge on Steam Deck and a very separate factor for them to do the mandatory work to make sure compatibility. To that time, when Valve introduced BattlEye assist in December, it stated all builders needed to do was contact the corporate to allow the software program for his or her title. And but it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not a number of the hottest multiplayer video games on Steam that make the most of BattlEye and EAC, together with titles like Rainbow Six Siege and PUBG, will work on day certainly one of Steam Deck’s availability. Valve has tried to handle a few of that uncertainty with its lately introduced . This week, Valve added , 39 of which ought to run with out challenge on the system.