Gaming news · State of Linux gaming
State of Linux gaming — week of 14 September 2026
10 games newly Deck Verified, 9 newly Playable on Deck, 4 with a lowered Deck rating, 5 ProtonDB tiers up and 4 down. No anti-cheat game changed status.
Published . Compares Sifter’s bake of 7 September 2026 (1,754 games) with 16 September 2026 (1,877 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
9
newly Deck Playable · Valve
4
Deck rating lowered · Valve
5
ProtonDB tier rose · ProtonDB
4
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 (10)
- AllumeriaValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Verified
- Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year EditionValve's Deck rating: Unsupported → Verified
- BOMBANANA!Valve's Deck rating: Unrated → Verified
- Resonance: A Plague Tale LegacyValve's Deck rating: Playable → Verified
- RomesteadValve's Deck rating: Playable → Verified
- ScavlandValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Verified
- Sort Them DucksValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Verified
- The Lord of the Rings: War in the North™ - Legacy EditionValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Verified
- TrailmakersValve's Deck rating: Playable → Verified
- Withering RealmsValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Verified
Newly Playable on Steam Deck (9)
- Broken ArrowValve's Deck rating: Unsupported → Playable
- Click the ButtonValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Playable
- Fell & SellValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Playable
- Rogue BlightValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Playable
- RuneScape: DragonwildsValve's Deck rating: Unsupported → Playable
- Squad 44Valve's Deck rating: Unsupported → Playable
- StationeersValve's Deck rating: Unsupported → Playable
- TyrValve's Deck rating: Unrated → Playable
- WWE 2K26Valve's Deck rating: Unsupported → Playable
Deck rating lowered (4)
ProtonDB tier rose (5)
ProtonDB tier fell (4)
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 — 123 games Sifter began tracking this week are not counted as changes. Sifter rates nothing.