Gaming news · State of Linux gaming
State of Linux gaming — week of 17 August 2026
1 game newly Deck Verified, 1 ProtonDB tier up and 1 down. No anti-cheat game changed status.
Published . Compares Sifter’s bake of 10 August 2026 (802 games) with 19 August 2026 (803 games).
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anti-cheat now working · AreWeAntiCheatYet
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anti-cheat now blocked · AreWeAntiCheatYet
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newly Deck Verified · Valve
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newly Deck Playable · Valve
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Deck rating lowered · Valve
1
ProtonDB tier rose · ProtonDB
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ProtonDB tier fell · ProtonDB
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newly listed as native Linux · Steam
Anti-cheat games that now run on Linux (0)
No anti-cheat game changed to Supported or Running between these two bakes.
Anti-cheat games that stopped working on Linux (0)
No anti-cheat game changed from working to Broken or Denied between these two bakes.
Newly Deck Verified (1)
Newly Playable on Steam Deck (0)
Valve rated no game in the corpus newly Playable between these two bakes.
Deck rating lowered (0)
Valve lowered no game's Deck rating between these two bakes.
ProtonDB tier rose (1)
ProtonDB tier fell (1)
Newly listed with a native Linux build (0)
Steam began listing a native Linux build for no game in the corpus between these two bakes.
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Sources: AreWeAntiCheatYet (anti-cheat status, in its own words), Valve’s Steam Deck compatibility ratings, ProtonDB community tiers (ODbL) and Steam’s own platform list. Only games tracked in both bakes are compared — 1 games Sifter began tracking this week are not counted as changes. Sifter rates nothing.