Top 25 Steam Deck Most Played Games in June 2026

June looked calm at the top: Slay the Spire 2 and Stardew Valley held first and second, while DELTARUNE entered at eighth. Underneath, May's launch-driven movement gave way to updates, DLC, familiar low-friction games, and the opening days of the Steam Summer Sale.

This June 30 snapshot uses Steam's rolling last-30-days Deck chart rather than a formal June 1-30 report. The window overlaps the Steam Summer Sale, which ran June 25-July 9, so late-window movement may reflect sale visibility as well as Deck suitability.

What stayed on top

Slay the Spire 2 held first for a second month, and Stardew Valley held second. Both suit interrupted sessions: readable turns and short runs for Slay the Spire 2, and reopen-anywhere farming for Stardew Valley.

Baldur's Gate 3 held seventh while the games around it moved. PC Gamer noted before May closed that it had fallen out of the Deck top five in only four of its first 33 months.

The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring stayed inside the top 15, with the first two climbing. The Witcher 3 was deeply discounted during the Steam Summer Sale, so its ten-place move may reflect sale visibility as well as handheld fit.

The return-trigger month

DAVE THE DIVER, Forza Horizon 6, Path of Exile 2, and No Man's Sky all climbed while Steam surfaced update or DLC messaging on their capsules. Because those moves overlapped Summer Sale week, the timing supports correlation rather than a clean cause.

DAVE THE DIVER made the largest jump in the upper half, up 26 places to fourth on the May-to-June baseline used here, carrying a New DLC Available tag. The DLC timing aligns with the move, and its short dives and frequent saves already suit interrupted Deck sessions.

Path of Exile 2 posted the largest climb in the June top 25, up 28 places to 21st from the May top-50 baseline after its Return of the Ancients update. No Man's Sky returned at 25th with the Swarm update, Dead by Daylight climbed to 26th, and Forza Horizon 6 held third after its Horizon Decades update.

Path of Exile 2 climbed to 21st while still marked Playable rather than Verified. Red Dead Redemption 2 was another Playable game farther down the chart. Their ranks show that compatibility badges do not determine chart position.

The new arrivals

DELTARUNE entered eighth after Chapter 5 released June 24. Its 2D, controller-first chapters suit short Deck sessions. Mina the Hollower rose 15 places to fifth, and Megabonk rose five to 17th. DELTARUNE and Mina ranked above games with much larger overall-Steam audiences.

The SteamCharts columns are overall-Steam figures, not Steam Deck figures. They are included for scale and direction only. The review column is the lifetime positive-review share from Steam's user review summary data, rounded to the nearest whole percent and accessed on June 30, 2026. The table covers the full Steam Deck top 25 from the June 30 snapshot; where SteamCharts did not return comparable monthly rows, the player-count fields stay marked as n/a.

What May's launch risers gave back

Subnautica 2 fell 22 places to 27th after a top-five May debut, so its launch demand did not convert into a second month of repeat handheld play.

Vampire Crawlers held fourth in May after a late-April launch, which I read as evidence beyond novelty. Its 27-place fall to 31st in June shows that one strong month was not enough.

Diablo IV fell 16 places to 22nd as the Steam-wide surge behind its May climb cooled, supporting the earlier momentum explanation over durable Deck fit.

Compatibility badges still did not map neatly to actual play. Skyrim Special Edition charted while Unsupported, and Path of Exile 2 climbed while only Playable.