I don’t really play any games outside of Steam. But I have close to 150 games on Steam and every single one of them can be installed on my system. For so long I was worried about switching to Linux solely because a lot of time I spend on my computer is gaming and didn’t want to - you know, not be able to game haha
I haven’t actually installed and ran every single one of the games in my library but after installing a couple dozen I’ve literally had no issues whatsoever.
Just curious if anyone’s fully switched over and had to give up a game here and there. (I did have to give up Xbox PC Game Pass - but oh well)
As @dalto already stated, many of the games with Anticheat tech don’t work. That’s a given. But there are strange other games, games that do strange stuff. One example was Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams, which for the longest time was not running under Linux.
Checking now however I can see that it is Steam Deck Verified, so that situation seems to have been resolved.
What you can quite regularly see is that certain launchers (2k, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts) break games compatibility for Linux. It usually gets resolved by the very good people supporting Wine and/or Proton, but that can happen and has happened to me.
Some games may have a decent rating, like “Gold”, but if you look at the comments, you’ll see more recent anti-cheat updates and such have broken them.