You might want to check over here for broad recommendations for gaming; this thread is still new and active:
As for using WINE/Bottles, any Windows game running in Linux is using WINE or Proton in some capacity (Proton being Valve's offshoot of WINE), even if you're not doing it directly. If you only use Steam and GOG, then I'd stick with Steam and Heroic unless something forces you to do otherwise.