73 of the top 100 most popular Steam games are playable on Steam Deck

It's been a little while since checking how well the top 100 most played games on Steam work on Linux and the Steam Deck, so here's a fresh run over the list for you.

For those who just want the official numbers:

• 28 - Verified
• 45 - Playable
• 22 - Unsupported
• 5 - Unchecked

So officially 73 of the top 100 will work on the Steam Deck currently. Any game that is playable on Steam Deck will be playable on Linux desktops too (minus perhaps some very rare exceptions). However, if you take into account ratings also from ProtonDB and some personal testing, the number will be likely a little higher especially for those Valve has not yet tested.

Here's the full list below, which is a snapshot taken today (June 30th, 2022). Since it's based on player-counts it fluctuates but not massively so, and it's more the bottom few that move in and out the rest just switch positions.

Name	Deck Status
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Native Linux)	Playable
Dota 2 (Native Linux)	Playable
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	Unsupported (Anti-cheat)
Apex Legends	Verified
Team Fortress 2 (Native Linux)	Playable
MONSTER HUNTER RISE	Unchecked (but works!)
Grand Theft Auto V	Playable
ARK: Survival Evolved (Native Linux…but use Proton)	Verified
Wallpaper Engine	Unchecked (but won't work)
Rust	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
MIR4	Unsupported
PAYDAY 2 (Native Linux)	Verified
Football Manager 2022	Playable
Dead by Daylight	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
FIFA 22	Playable
War Thunder (Native Linux)	Verified
Destiny 2	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
Terraria (Native Linux)	Verified
Raft	Playable
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
Warframe	Playable
Stardew Valley (Native Linux)	Verified
Unturned (Native Linux)	Playable
Sid Meier's Civilization VI (Native Linux)	Playable
Dread Hunger	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat, but some reports state it works sometimes)
ELDEN RING	Verified
Hearts of Iron IV (Native Linux)	Playable
Fall Guys	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat but you can make it work!)
NBA 2K22	Verified
tModLoader	Playable
Garry's Mod (Native Linux)	Unsupported
DayZ	Unsupported (some people can get it to work, plenty cannot)
The Forest	Playable
Euro Truck Simulator 2 (Native Linux)	Verified
Don't Starve Together (Native Linux)	Verified
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal	Playable
Red Dead Redemption 2	Playable
World of Tanks Blitz	Playable
Left 4 Dead 2 (Native Linux)	Verified
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel	Playable
VRChat	Verified
Monster Hunter: World	Playable
The Cycle: Frontier	Unchecked (but works!)
7 Days to Die (Native Linux)	Playable
The Sims 4	Playable
RimWorld (Native Linux)	Verified
Path of Exile	Playable
Cities: Skylines (Native Linux)	Playable
Black Desert	Unsupported
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition	Playable
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Verified
Europa Universalis IV (Native Linux)	Unsupported
Stellaris (Native Linux)	Playable
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online	Unsupported
Project Zomboid (Native Linux)	Verified
V Rising	Playable
Rocket League	Verified
Cookie Clicker	Playable
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord	Playable
The Elder Scrolls Online	Unsupported (but you can make it work!)
Deep Rock Galactic	Playable
Sid Meier's Civilization V (Native Linux)	Playable
Vampire Survivors	Verified
Farming Simulator 22	Playable
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Native Linux)	Verified
Fallout 4	Playable
Battlefield V	Playable
Slay the Spire (Native Linux)	Verified
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition	Unsupported
Forza Horizon 4	Unsupported
Crusader Kings III (Native Linux)	Playable
Bloons TD 6	Playable
雀魂麻将(MahjongSoul)	Unchecked
Cyberpunk 2077	Playable
Valheim (Native Linux)	Verified
Stumble Guys	Playable
Satisfactory	Playable
Total War: WARHAMMER II (Native Linux)	Playable
Soundpad	Unchecked (but clearly won't work)
New World	Playable
Hollow Knight (Native Linux)	Verified
Arma 3	Unsupported (but you can make it work)
Football Manager 2021	Playable
Brawlhalla	Verified
Lost Ark	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
Phasmophobia	Verified
Factorio (Native Linux)	Playable
Counter-Strike (Native Linux)	Playable
No Man's Sky	Verified
Shadowverse	Playable
Oxygen Not Included (Native Linux)	Verified
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice	Verified
Forza Horizon 5	Playable
World of Warships	Unsupported
It Takes Two	Playable
Risk of Rain 2	Verified
SCUM	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat)
Hades	Verified
Squad	Unsupported (Anti-Cheat but you can make it work)

As pretty much expected, the biggest culprit of what's not playable is issues with Anti-Cheat. Despite Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye supporting Linux and the Steam Deck, there's still a lot of issues there with developers either not updating or having trouble with the integration so it's an uphill struggle there.

For games that are listed as Playable some of the biggest issues there are a mixture of things like: launchers being a nuisance, on-screen keyboard needing to be pulled up manually, no gamepad support and text that's too small. For developers, it often doesn't take much to bump up from Playable to Verified and lots of them have been putting in the effort, which you can see across many articles in the Steam Deck tag.

Some games tagged as Unsupported may also appear to work fine, but there's a few cases where they can end up very unstable later on (like Forza Horizon 4). So even if you might think an Unsupported title is wrong, it might not be.

In other Steam deck news, here's a few recent big bits you might have missed:

• Some Steam Decks ship with an x2 SSD instead of an x4 SSD
• Valve to ship 'more than double' the number of Steam Decks each week
• Valve designer warns people not to put 2242 M.2 drives in their Steam Deck