Anti-cheat on Linux & Steam Deck
Anti-cheat is the most common reason a multiplayer Steam game fails on Linux. Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye both support Proton — but only when a game’s developer switches it on. This page tracks what the community actually observes, game by game, with freshness and confidence for every verdict.
No definite anti-cheat reports yet — they appear here as contributors file them.
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Most multiplayer Steam games use Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) or BattlEye. Both vendors ship Proton-compatible runtimes, so a game can work on Linux and Steam Deck — but support is opt-in per game. If the developer hasn’t enabled it (or uses a kernel-level anti-cheat with no Linux path, like Vanguard), the game launches into an anti-cheat error or silently kicks Linux players.
Because a single developer toggle can flip a game from blocked to working overnight, this page weighs recent reports more heavily and marks older verdicts as needing confirmation. Playing something listed here? A fresh report keeps the answer current for everyone.
Status shown is the community consensus for play on Linux (desktop and handheld) — it is not an official statement by any developer or anti-cheat vendor.