Games that run on Linux with Proton

Proton is Valve’s compatibility layer, built into Steam. It lets Windows games run on Linux and the Steam Deck without a Windows install: you click Play and Steam handles the rest. It builds on Wine and translates DirectX graphics to Vulkan.

There is no complete list of “every Proton game”: Proton runs tens of thousands of Steam games, and it changes with every update. So we took the 100 games people are actually playing right now and checked each one against three sources: Steam (does it have a native Linux version?), ProtonDB (how well does it run?) and Valve’s Steam Deck rating.

ProtonDB ratings come from player reports, and the Reports column shows how many. More reports means a more reliable rating.

Native Linux, or rated Platinum or Gold on ProtonDB. Install from Steam and play.

Rated Silver or Bronze. They start, but expect glitches; check ProtonDB for the fixes players use.

Rated Borked. Most of these are online shooters whose anti-cheat does not allow Linux, which no setting on your side can fix. Only the developer can switch Linux support on.

Out of the 98 most-played games on Steam:

Our read: about 8 in 10 of the games people are playing right now work well on Linux. The ones that fail are mostly online games blocked by anti-cheat, not games that are too demanding.