I have slow connection, and limited income, so not many banger games will be discussed.
My steam library is mostly old games, like quake games, doom, Wurm Online, Half-Life stuff, BF6, and Skyrim/ESO.
Most of these games play fine without any intervention (steam settings ect). BF6 has an anti-cheat module that does not support Linux. So thats that. And I just boot windows for that.
Doom3 I still need to sort out. I have read about some options but have not did the work yet, so I can'y play it. Other than those issues, most games work just fine.
Hey, as far as I'm concerned absolutely nothing wrong with playing older games, PLENTY of games to go around from years past that if you just played those games, you would never get through them all in your lifetime! Also there are definitely some small games that have come out fairly recently (albeit not the major studios, so indies mostly) like Animal Well (being something in the tens of MB range), Celeste, Blue Prince, Cassette Beasts, Balatro, the list could go on and on. I know they are not exactly high profile games, but that doesn't mean they're any lesser quality, especially given the size of the downloads. And they usually go on some pretty steep discounts by this point as well
Yes, old game still have a nostalgic value (mostly reminiscing). But non the less valuable. And it is nice to see that I can play "most" titles without issue. My most recent install is ESO, and it runs great.
Some other good games are Astromenace, a Diablo clone called Flare, Runescape, Unvanquished, and there's a new mmorpg on steam called Eterspire that runs really well on linux.
That's been pretty close to my experience as well. Older games tend to run surprisingly well on Linux, and the biggest obstacle is usually anti-cheat rather than performance. Hopefully more developers improve Linux support over time, because Proton has already made a huge difference for a lot of classic games.
