132 of the 250 most highly rated games on Steam support Linux, even more when counting Steam Play

is there a way to sort protondb by release date?
best rated is nice, but the important thing is, how new games perform on linux

just cause 4, hitman 2 and shadow of the tomb raider are playable, but 2019 has more games

metro and dying light. i still hope they get a native port
rage 2 uses same engine as just cause 4 and should also work with proton
doom eternal should be the same as doom and work with proton
and of course some unreal engine games. tropic 6 gets a linux port. maybe biomutant with proton
cyberpunk hopefully works like witcher 3

i am curious which games will work in the future and if developers already adjust their games to work with proton at least.... especially ubisoft

Many games that works flawlessly with proton are reported as just "gold" or "silver", when in fact they work exactly the same as in Windows (for instance, my girlfriend is playing a lot AoE2 HD and it has an error on the first run that is exactly the same that you get on Windows... of course, the game works flawlessly after running the windows workaround XD -- by now she has over 200 hours!!).

There could be even more there, some titles on ProtonDB didn’t have enough reports to have a rating. I’m still surprised DOOM only has a “Gold” rating there, as it’s basically flawless for me outside of one windowing issue that was solved with a simple ALT+Enter to re-do the fullscreen.

How regular is ProtonDB being updated? There have been some updates (like the now working Multiplayer) since the first ratings...

There could be even more there, some titles on ProtonDB didn’t have enough reports to have a rating. I’m still surprised DOOM only has a “Gold” rating there, as it’s basically flawless for me outside of one windowing issue that was solved with a simple ALT+Enter to re-do the fullscreen.

How regular is ProtonDB being updated? There have been some updates (like the now working Multiplayer) since the first ratings...

Well, ProtonDB is entirely based on user reports so they should always be taken with a pinch of salt. Still, it's the best indication we have as there's nothing else like it (outside of WineDB of course but Proton is its own beast). Going by the ProtonDB stats page, they get over a hundred reports a day across titles.

There could be even more there, some titles on ProtonDB didn’t have enough reports to have a rating. I’m still surprised DOOM only has a “Gold” rating there, as it’s basically flawless for me outside of one windowing issue that was solved with a simple ALT+Enter to re-do the fullscreen.

How regular is ProtonDB being updated? There have been some updates (like the now working Multiplayer) since the first ratings...

In my experience, it only takes a day or two for them to include your report.

Overall proton running games have been pretty good, I do however wish Kingdom Come ran better with it, under windows I get 60-65fps at 4k (start town) and under Proton its like 45-50, tad low.

This is interesting... (personally, I would stick with the 132 number, but to each their own...)

I'd personally be more interested in the top 250 games being played. (I know you can see those games here: https://steamdb.info/graph/ but I'm too lazy to go through and manually count them.) Its one thing to rate a game high and then eventually get bored with it... Its a bit different to be constantly played.


There do seem to be a bunch of linux titles on that (currently played) list anyway. Civ V & VI, Factorio, Don't Starve Together, 7 Days to Die, Oxygen Not Included, Terraria, Borderlands 2, Rimworld, Rocket League... (Of course I see a bunch of the "not linux" like PUBG, Fallout 4, Civ III & IV(

cyberpunk hopefully works like witcher 3

I hope it runs on vulkan; we'd then get near native performance. (I should mention, though, that apart from some stuttering, I get about the same performance for TW3 under dxvk, that I'm getting under native windoze. -- that's at 1080p/60fps; I'm sure it wouldn't scale so nicely at higher resolutions.)

i am curious which games will work in the future and if developers already adjust their games to work with proton at least.... especially ubisoft

As soon as we have a solution for uplay under wine, I'm nuking my windoze partition. I'm not terribly hopeful, though. For every fix, there's an upcoming uplay update to break it. Also, the drm isn't the only problem with their titles.

CD Projekt RED are looking for DX programmers for Cyberpunk 2077 so Vulkan is not likely: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED/743999681547993-graphics-programmer

As soon as we have a solution for uplay under wine, I'm nuking my windoze partition. I'm not terribly hopeful, though. For every fix, there's an upcoming uplay update to break it. Also, the drm isn't the only problem with their titles.

maybe ubisoft ditches uplay for linux installations. on protondb some say the games work, if you crack them.
would be a nice move from ubisoft

CD Projekt RED are looking for DX programmers for Cyberpunk 2077 so Vulkan is not likely: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED/743999681547993-graphics-programmer

havent they said, that they finished cyberpunk already and are just bugfixing?

i am curious which games will work in the future and if developers already adjust their games to work with proton at least.... especially ubisoft

As soon as we have a solution for uplay under wine, I'm nuking my windoze partition. I'm not terribly hopeful, though. For every fix, there's an upcoming uplay update to break it. Also, the drm isn't the only problem with their titles.

There is a solution to Ubisoft. It's called PS4. IMO, it's worth it if that's the last thing holding you to Windows. There are a few exclusives that are really excellent as well, like Uncharted, Bloodborne, and The Last of Us that will never come to PC. Also, a lot of Ubisoft games are third-person, so you shouldn't miss the KB + mouse. (But if you do, the PS4 accepts KB + mouse as well.)


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is there a way to sort protondb by release date?
rage 2 uses same engine as just cause 4 and should also work with proton
doom eternal should be the same as doom and work with proton

These games won't be sold on Steam, so no Proton for them. I'm sure Bethesda will try to shove as much DRM into them as they can, and it could prevent from running in Wine.

There is a solution to Ubisoft. It's called PS4. IMO, it's worth it if that's the last thing holding you to Windows. There are a few exclusives that are really excellent as well, like Uncharted, Bloodborne, and The Last of Us that will never come to PC.

I'd rather play on Windows than get a console. Linux is all about freedom, and you have much much less freedom when using PS4 than Windows PC. And exclusives are bad for gaming. People have to buy a gaming device because there are games which aren't available elsewhere, not because said device is better than others. Paid online, more expensive games, worse graphics and performance, and for what? For those clones of Tomb Raider and Dark Souls?


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havent they said, that they finished cyberpunk already and are just bugfixing?

Where did you hear that?

Many games that works flawlessly with proton are reported as just "gold" or "silver"][...] the game works flawlessly after running the windows workaround .

That's not flawless, that's "working after applying workarounds", that's gold or even silver.

See, that's the problem with those reports, claims of platinum status, claimed by experienced wine users. That's what leads to disappointment after disappointment by newbies who can't even get to the main menu screen before something shitty happens.
This is in fact why wine is given up by so many, myself included.

Many games that works flawlessly with proton are reported as just "gold" or "silver"][...] the game works flawlessly after running the windows workaround .

That's not flawless, that's "working after applying workarounds", that's gold or even silver.

See, that's the problem with those reports, claims of platinum status, claimed by experienced wine users. That's what leads to disappointment after disappointment by newbies who can't even get to the main menu screen before something shitty happens.
This is in fact why wine is given up by so many, myself included.

Hang on, though--it's the same problem you'd have under Windows, and the same workaround you'd have to use in Windows. How can something whose behaviour is identical to the Windows version not be platinum?

is there a way to sort protondb by release date?
rage 2 uses same engine as just cause 4 and should also work with proton
doom eternal should be the same as doom and work with proton

These games won't be sold on Steam, so no Proton for them. I'm sure Bethesda will try to shove as much DRM into them as they can, and it could prevent from running in Wine.

Well, we don't know that yet. Quake Champions was once a Bethesda Launcher only title and later came to Steam. So it's possible they will still use Steam at a later date. If not... well... they won't be seeing any of my money.

There is a solution to Ubisoft. It's called PS4. IMO, it's worth it if that's the last thing holding you to Windows.

I *did* have a PS4 briefly, so I'm familiar with the advantages (and the disadvantages) of having such a device. When my current graphics card no longer 'cuts it' (gtx970 -- it's keeping up remarkably well at 1080p), I'll have to decide between upgrading it, or getting a playstation.

[...] I’m still surprised DOOM only has a “Gold” rating there, as it’s basically flawless for me outside of one windowing issue that was solved with a simple ALT+Enter to re-do the fullscreen.

Well, as @Beamboom said - that's Gold, not Platinum. Any issue (apart from reasonably lower fps, I think) drops status from Platinum to Gold. Gold means it's easily fixable or doesn't affect the game, though, so maybe we should consider that "fully playable" or "same as Windows" since AFAIR it's perfectly normal and very common on Windows to mingle with game settings, launchers, GPU drivers and/or installation process for the game to run properly. And if so, Platinum means "better than on average Windows install".

Well, we don't know that yet. Quake Champions was once a Bethesda Launcher only title and later came to Steam. So it's possible they will still use Steam at a later date. If not... well... they won't be seeing any of my money.

Rage 2 is available for pre-order on https://bethesda.net/en/game/rage2 where there are logos of Xbox, PS and Bethesda launcher only, no Steam. No Steam store pages as well. Fallout 76 is not on Steam too. I think it's obvious that Bethesda have left Steam.

Well, we don't know that yet. Quake Champions was once a Bethesda Launcher only title and later came to Steam. So it's possible they will still use Steam at a later date. If not... well... they won't be seeing any of my money.

Rage 2 is available for pre-order on https://bethesda.net/en/game/rage2 where there are logos of Xbox, PS and Bethesda launcher only, no Steam. No Steam store pages as well. Fallout 76 is not on Steam too. I think it's obvious that Bethesda have left Steam.

At the moment for sure. We just don't know if it's a permanent thing. If sales will be crap on their own store they might see themselves in a position where they "have" to go to Steam to reach the people over there.

Pete Hines explained that Fallout 76 is a "particular case" in the decision to launch only on Bethesda.net, so he didn't say it's a general rule. Might seem like I'm grasping at a straw... I just don't like any definitive word, because things change all the time. And I don't care that much about their games. And wasn't Elder Scrolls Online also a Bethesda.net only game as well for a while? It's now on Steam, too.

So we'll see what the future bringe.