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Only 3 in top 10 though

Four, it looks like. But of the games in the top ten that work on Linux, only one (GTA V) is not from Valve. Definitely seems like the year of Linux gaming on the desktop has not yet arrived, although we're closer than we used to be. Great work by Valve to get us this far.

Also worth noting that a number of actual top ten games are not on Steam. Valorant, league of legends, warzone, escape from tarkov, and Fortnite all are not available on that platform. (Some of these may not be top ten -- it's hard to know because we don't have solid numbers, but they are all in the top 20 of twitch viewership.)

I wasn't aware GTA was a Valve game ;-)

I'm guessing the rest, being primarily multiplayer games, are blocked by some anti-cheat/DRM scheme. Hopefully Valve can work out some compromise to get those working on Wine/Proton.

Maybe my comment was unclear. I said "all but one of them" and by "them" I meant, "the ones that work on Linux." The "but one" is referring to GTA, which you correctly observe is not a Valve game, as I did also in my comment. I edited to clarify.

Ah, sorry, I must have missed that. Maybe I need another cup of coffee...

Believe it or not, League of Legends actually works pretty well on Linux (I run it through Lutris). It takes a while for the launcher to initially load on startup, and the launcher is a bit of a slow/laggy mess, but from what I hear from my Windows friends the latter at least is just a general LoL launcher problem more than a Linux problem. Once you actually load into a game it runs completely flawlessly, with great performance.

It seems to be 4 out of the top 10.

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