A few months after of a new tool that allows you to run Windows PC games on Linux, it looks like thousands of games are supported. Valve’s Steam game client is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. But up until recently developers had to specifically target each platform — if there wasn’t officially a Linux version of a game you wanted to play then you couldn’t use Steam to install it on a computer running Linux. In August Valve with a modified version of Wine (a Windows compatibility layer) called Proton that let you run some Windows games without any intervention from developers. At the time Valve only confirmed that 27 games were supported. But the company also allowed users to check a box that would “enable Steam Play for all titles,” whether they’re officially supported or not.
Steam may have allocated two times the space the game takes up. It usually happens when there's an update or something. An entirely new directory of the game is created temporarily then the original game is transferred over.
And it turns out many of those games do work. The folks at have been collecting reports about games that do and don’t work with Proton/Steam Pay for Linux. And so far it looks like more than half the games people have tested are working.
As of the morning October 30th, 2018, the list of games reported has topped 5,170 and the number of games confirmed to work with Proton is over 2,670. You can search the index at to see how well games work. They’re ranked “borked,” “bronze,” “silver,” “gold,” and “platinum” based on user ratings, and games that already natively support Linux will be marked “native.” Overall it looks like the Steam Play beta dramatically increases the number of games that are playable on Linux computers.
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I have a few games that don’t require steam drm They launch standalone. None of them are really demanding games and I’d say they run just as well as they do on normal wine. Even if the steam launch issue is resolved, I wouldn’t have very high expectations right now. MoltenVK isn’t at a point yet where it can run dxvk. Also metal is 64-bit only so no 32-bit windows game can use dxvk on macOS. I wouldn’t expect much difference between proton and wine for dx9 games.