Gaming news · State of Linux gaming
State of Linux gaming — week of 28 September 2026
2 games newly Deck Verified, 5 newly Playable on Deck, 3 with a lowered Deck rating and 3 ProtonDB tiers up. No anti-cheat game changed status.
Published . Compares Sifter’s bake of 25 September 2026 (2,052 games) with 30 September 2026 (2,088 games).
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anti-cheat now working · AreWeAntiCheatYet
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anti-cheat now blocked · AreWeAntiCheatYet
2
newly Deck Verified · Valve
5
newly Deck Playable · Valve
3
Deck rating lowered · Valve
3
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 (2)
Newly Playable on Steam Deck (5)
Deck rating lowered (3)
ProtonDB tier rose (3)
ProtonDB tier fell (0)
No game's ProtonDB tier fell between these two bakes.
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 — 36 games Sifter began tracking this week are not counted as changes. Sifter rates nothing.