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I had wanted to play a game I saw on YouTube called "Project Castaway" ..... this is a survival game that looked like fun with tons of videos describing how to play it ...

I went to Steam and searched for it but as I have Linux as one of my criteria for games I can play on Steam .... it told me it wasn't compatible .....

I mentioned that on this board and if I remember correctly Michal said to go ahead and download it anyway because Steam would refund me if it didn't work .... being lazy I decided not to go through the hassle of that I just skipped the idea .....

Well yesterday I got a message from Steam that it was on sale again so I decided I would try it but this time I checked on ProtonDB but didn't see any ratings for the game in fact it was blank ..... I did see that the Penguin was highlighted .... I clicked on it and found one post that said it would work and to use Proton Experimental ....

To make a long story short I paid my money and played the game .... everything works ..... lesson learned always check with ProtonDB and check for the Penguin .... LOL

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Yup, checking for compatibility ahead of time is a good idea, and protondb is a really good resource for that. Can give you a good idea of what to do if it does or doesn't work too, and specifics of everyone's machines so you know what they do or don't have similar to you.

I'll be honest, most of the time in the past 4-5 years, I haven't ever bothered to check compatibility. I buy, download, and see what happens. If it doesn't work, I look up if there are fixes. And if I can't get it working, then I refund. The VAST majority of games work without doing basically anything nowadays, so it's pretty great.

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