Heavy Rain on the Steam Machine
Can the Steam Machine run Heavy Rain?
Yes — Heavy Rain, a 2020 adventure game, rates green on the Steam Machine at 1080p.
Derived from Valve's SteamOS testing (it's also Deck Verified), not a measured frame-rate. Its 4 GB VRAM ask sits under the Machine's 8 GB. Recommended RAM is 8 GB — comfortably within the Machine's 16 GB.
Key facts: Heavy Rain on Steam Machine
- Compatibility
- Runs great (works). Inferred from Valve's SteamOS compatibility rating.
- Device & mode
- Steam Machine: Runs great — Runs locally on SteamOS (1080p default)
- Steam Deck: Deck Verified — Runs locally on the handheld (800p) · ~35 fps (measured)
- Steam Frame: Native status: unknown — Flatscreen — streamed from a Steam Machine to a virtual screen; native play not rated
- Performance
- No frame-rate data — we don't publish a number we don't hold.
- Conditions
- None recorded — there is no frame-rate test to describe.
- Basis
- Derived from SteamOS compatibility · 2 sources (2 linked) · data as of · methodology
- Limitations
- No frame-rate measured — the verdict is inferred from Valve's SteamOS compatibility rating.
- Not recorded here: anti-cheat status, frame generation, game / SteamOS / Proton versions.
At a glance across Valve's SteamOS devices
Steam Deck
Measured · 1 reportAMD RDNA 2, 8 CU (~1.6 TFLOPs) · 800p handheld (1280×800) · 15 W TDP
Measured on Steam Deck across 1 community report (deck-verified.games).
Analysis — Heavy Rain on the Steam Machine
This kind of action game is GPU-bound on the Machine: the frame-rate follows resolution and post-processing. FSR is the main lever when frames get tight; effects and shadows go before textures.
97 ProtonDB reports rate it Gold (runs perfectly after tweaks), in line with Valve's Deck Verified rating.
Steam lists full controller support, so it plays from the sofa without a keyboard.
Steam Deck owners report ~35 fps (1 report). On the Machine it rates green — the step up if you want it on a TV.
Frequently asked
Is Heavy Rain Steam Deck Verified?
Yes — Heavy Rain is Steam Deck Verified, running around 35 fps.
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How we know this
Inferred from this title's official SteamOS compatibility rating, scaled to the Machine's roughly 6× Deck GPU power.
- Valve SteamOS compatibility: Compatible · Valve (Steam store)
- ProtonDB: Gold, 97 reports · ProtonDBIndependent community signal shown alongside our verdict, not used to compute it.
Every verdict is labelled by confidence. Numbers are estimates unless tagged “measured.”
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