Over 1,000 Steam games work on Linux with the compatibility update

August 27, 2018 Steam's new Linux compatibility tools work with over a thousand games, according to community testing.

A major Steam update currently in beta has added built-in compatibility tools to get Windows games running on Linux. In theory, it should allow nearly every game on Steam to run on the open source OS, though in practice, it’s going to take some time getting there. But we might already be closer than you’d think. Valve has only officially whitelisted a handful of games as compatible, but the community has found plenty more - over a thousand more, in fact. According to the biggest collection of data, over 1,000 games are “completely stable,” meaning no significant issues. A further 700 titles are noted as “stable,” meaning they have minor issues but remain playable. Your results may (and likely will) vary depending on your exact hardware and driver configurations, and there are some conflicts even in these reports. But Valve’s custom compatibility tool has already had wide ranging success. The tracker comes courtesy of migelius on Reddit, and you can peruse it both via an extensive Google Docs spreadsheet and a more user-friendly web version with a proper search engine. The latter also provides links if you want to do some testing and contribute to further reports.

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