If you've just picked up a Steam Deck (or been gifted one) here's the 5 games that you should play first on your new handheld gaming device.

Valve shared its “Best of 2024” data on Dec. 26, highlighting games that performed the best by a variety of metrics. The data is split into various categories, such as best-selling games, most played, and favorites among Steam Deck, VR, and controller users.

For the first few days with the Steam Deck OLED in hand, all I did was load up different games to try and find the hard limit for the Deck's capabilities. As it turns out, as long as a game is Steam Deck Verified,

Steam has revealed its best games of 2024 across several categories: Top Sellers, New Releases, Most Played, Steam Deck, Controller, and VR. While revenue specifics aren’t revealed for each title, Steam groups them into buckets,