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What if one considers ONLY the most desirable Top 50 games (based on popularity) out there, how good is Linux? That's the real question, isn't it ? Well, I took a look very recently at the top 50 games on Steam with the highest number of concurrent players over the past 2 weeks. And the verdict is... Name Developer Publisher Concurrent Platforms Verdict Users Counter-Strike: Valve, Hidden Global Path Valve 935189 WML Native Offensive Entertainment Dota 2 Valve Valve 521391 WML Native Valheim Iron Gate AB Coffee Stain 224934 WL Native Publishing PLAYERUNKNOWN'S KRAFTON, Inc. KRAFTON, Inc. 187140 W No Go BATTLEGROUNDS Apex Legends Respawn Electronic 135993 W No Go Entertainment Arts Rust Facepunch Facepunch 113780 WM No Go Studios Studios Grand Theft Rockstar North Rockstar 86330 W Proton Auto V Games Team Fortress 2 Valve Valve 83162 WML Native Tom Clancy's Ubisoft Rainbow Six Montreal Ubisoft 65661 W No Go Siege Rocket League Psyonix LLC Psyonix LLC 60503 W Proton Studio Wildcard, ARK: Survival Instinct Studio Evolved Games, Efecto Wildcard 57952 WML Native Studios, Virtual Basement LLC Destiny 2 Bungie Bungie 49895 W No Go Warframe Digital Digital 43494 W Proton Extremes Extremes Potential Wallpaper Wallpaper Wallpaper 40124 W No Go Engine Engine Team Engine Team Dead by Behaviour Behaviour Daylight Interactive Interactive 38003 W No Go Inc. Inc. Stardew Valley ConcernedApe ConcernedApe 35689 WML Native Black Desert Pearl Abyss Pearl Abyss 34723 W No Go Online Gaijin Gaijin War Thunder Entertainment Distribution 33489 WML Native KFT Terraria Re-Logic Re-Logic 33305 WML Native Garry's Mod Facepunch Valve 31795 WML Native Studios Path of Exile Grinding Gear Grinding Gear 31510 WM Proton Games Games World of Tanks Wargaming Wargaming 29874 WM Proton Blitz Group Limited Group Limited Euro Truck SCS Software SCS Software 29624 WML Native Simulator 2 OVERKILL - a Starbreeze PAYDAY 2 Starbreeze Publishing AB 27774 WL Native Studio. Unturned Smartly Smartly 24018 WML Native Dressed Games Dressed Games Brawlhalla Blue Mammoth Ubisoft 23052 WM Proton Games Monster Hunter: CAPCOM Co., CAPCOM Co., 19720 W Proton World Ltd. Ltd. Sid Meier's Firaxis Games, 2K, Aspyr Civilization V Aspyr (Mac), (Mac), Aspyr 19079 WML Native Aspyr (Linux) (Linux) Counter-Strike Valve Valve 16841 WML Native The Witcher 3: CD PROJEKT RED CD PROJEKT 16352 W Proton Wild Hunt RED Arma 3 Bohemia Bohemia 16163 W Proton Interactive Interactive Cities: Colossal Order Paradox 15995 WML Native Skylines Ltd. Interactive SMITE Titan Forge Hi-Rez 15379 W No Go Games Studios Mount & Blade TaleWorlds TaleWorlds 14269 W Proton II: Bannerlord Entertainment Entertainment Potential Among Us Innersloth Innersloth 14100 W Proton Cyberpunk 2077 CD PROJEKT RED CD PROJEKT 14087 W Proton RED Potential Dying Light Techland Techland 13773 WML Native Publishing Fallout 4 Bethesda Game Bethesda 13456 W Proton Studios Softworks Potential Left 4 Dead 2 Valve Valve 12951 WML Native Phasmophobia Kinetic Games Kinetic Games 12884 W Proton Paladins Evil Mojo Hi-Rez 12250 W No Go Games Studios Don't Starve Klei Klei 11176 WML Native Together Entertainment Entertainment Fall Guys: Devolver Ultimate Mediatonic Digital 7368 W No Go Knockout World of Wargaming Wargaming 7087 W Proton Warships Group Limited Group Limited The Forest Endnight Games Endnight 6818 W Proton Ltd Games Ltd The Elder Bethesda Game Bethesda Scrolls V: Studios Softworks 6654 W Proton Skyrim NBA 2K20 Visual 2K 6278 W Proton Concepts Potential Raft Redbeet Axolot Games 5675 W Proton Interactive Skybox Labs, Hidden Path Age of Empires Entertainment, Xbox Game II (2013) Ensemble Studios 5543 W Proton Studios, Forgotten Empires Dota Underlords Valve Valve 5123 WML Native By the way, let me first say that Valheim is absolutely killing it. For a game that's just recently launched and from a small studio, getting to the top 3 of concurrent players is almost unheard of. Turns out that I have been playing it too, and you should expect to read something about it pretty soon. But more on that later. Valheim is one of the top 50 games running on Linux on Steam So what did we get among the Top 50 games on Steam? * 34 games overall working well on Linux out of 50: 68%. * Among these 34, 19 have native clients, and 15 run well with Proton. * An extra five games kind of work on Proton but not perfectly (example: Cyberpunk 2077, which works OK on AMD but is kind of broken on Nvidia, still) * 11 games are borked (22%) in one way or another. (Note: ARMA3 is considered as 'working' even though BattleEye prevents you from joining official servers. It it still, however, possible to host your own multiplayer sessions with friends for Co-op). We can see from the above that Proton is a major enabler: it makes the compatibility on Linux jump from 19/50 (38%) to somewhere between 68% and 78%. Among the 11 games that are considered borked: * Most of them do not work because of EAC (7) * One of them (Destiny 2) because of another DRM/anti-cheat system * Another one relies on BattleEye * and Black Desert Online checks for very specific Windows drivers or properties and does not launch otherwise. We can see how big of a deal EAC represents (or even Anti-Cheat systems in general). If we had some kind of EAC support, we could bring the compatibility in top 50 from 68% (34/50) to something closer to 82% (41/50). That would be a major breakthrough for all those games that rely heavily on multiplayer features. Turns out a lot of predictions we received for 2021 are about Proton/WINE finally implementing support for EAC - that's not even a rumor, we know it's actively being worked on in the WINE project. The only question is WHEN, not IF. Last but not least, Mac has ONLY 21 out of the Top 50 games working... 42%! I will let that sink in a little. We already know that Linux has become a much better platform than "native Mac", but the gap is now very wide and will keep increasing going forward while Mac is pretty much stuck in the dust with their non-existing Proton support. Of course, the real objective is to get to 100%, be it by more native titles and/or better Proton support. But the glass is not even half full anymore, it's getting refilled as we speak. --------------------------------------------------------------------- BoilingSteam lets you access our content for free, but writing articles is a constant investment. We don't use ads or sponsporship, help us make our activities sustainable by donating via Patreon or LiberaPay if you prefer it anonymous. You can follow what we do via our newsletter, our RSS feed, our Mastodon profile or our Twitter feed. 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