[NOOB] Does my game run on Linux? > ProtonDB

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Alright,

So I will right away take advantage of this. And I hope I will not be slandered for advertising it.

Those who take the wild west live (not so much anymore) of Linux gaming most likely know about this >

https://www.protondb.com/

If you are not sure if a game works, or how does it perform on Linux ProtonDB is a nice way to check. Users post there their experience as well fixes for possible various issues.

Why I am mentioning this, well, because ProtonDB should be the 1st stop for every-gamer when having potential issues or question if a game on Linux works :wink:

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Actually i only have few running and will test more in Future of course if i got my gpu fixed or buy a new one later.

Stronghold via PlayonLinux4
CS Orginal via Wine-Launcher
CS2 via Steam

Can play from my external HDD
Assassins Creed Blag Flag
Velocity Split/Second
DriftCE

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I play for the last 2 years only on Linux and I do not remember a Single player game that would not work; be it Steam game, GoG game or just a game stored on other media types.

Everything over Proton or Native Linux

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Warcraft III and expansion runs straight in Bottles on my system, no need to change settings or runners. Just apply the last public available patch 1.27b. Intro videos is buggy, but as soon as the game launch it doesn’t play them again on the next launch. Nice to play some old school DotA again. I think the last official AI map was DotA v6.78c AI 1.4e “Farewell”

EDIT:

Windows games I’ve tried on Steam was Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour.

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Linux gaming is not anymore about “What game works?” but instead is about “What game does not work” in my opinion.

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yepp but also which launcher you are use and how to configure it right. To be honestly :laughing: :grin: :smiling_face:

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Another resource you can use is Steam Deck Verified. Although this page verifies which games work on this console, we can extrapolate the information since GNU/Linux is its base.

Games that have an anti-cheat feature often have a lot of problems or don’t work at all. Anyway ProtonDB is the main way because users report their solutions and you can see if more people are working.

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yupp i can confirm it =) but many possibilities lead to … right? maybe in the near future :wink: linux has gotten better at all to get it running than 20 years ago. :grinning_face:

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Linux gaming is more about the anticheat. Everything runs

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You are kinda right.

This is also a matter of time, the more people will game on Linux the more of sorry excuses like “people using Linux cheat so we wont support our anticheat on linux” developers will stop to use.

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For the most part yes but there are games that do not work that do not have anti cheat. A few games I can think of that I have struggled to get working that do not have anti cheat are beyond good and evil and (forgot the name of it, it is a game with a cat that drives around a sub) Old games but fun. I have been able to get beyond good and evil working on some distros like Garuda, trom jaro, voyager, nobara, and bazzite . Any other distros I was just unable to get it working on at all. And that Cat sub one does not work at all. I even had a guy try and help me get it working and we were not able to get it working.

Edit found the name of the game “Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender”

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true :face_with_raised_eyebrow: :grin:

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I like the game, I like any cute game and if it has cats it is even better. I have all 3 cat quest games and they all work on linux.