Will these top Steam games support Steam Deck? We ask their developers
Valve's $400 Steam Deck gaming handheld runs Linux, but it can play Windows games too. Many of them, anyhow! Some of the biggest games on Steam use anti-cheat software that doesn't play nice with the Proton compatibility layer which lets Windows games work. That's changing this year, with both Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) and BattlEye confirming to The Verge that support is on the way, and Epic says it takes just a few clicks." Valve says BattlEye support is as easy as an email.
But will game developers let their games take advantage? Not necessarily! We reached out to every developer of every top EAC and BattlEye game on Steam. Initially, only four of them gave us a definite yes, but it seems we've got at least one more on the way.
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