With Valve’s excellent deal with the Proton tool for Linux and the Mac’s Game Porting Toolkit and CrossOver alternatives, couple of video games are really “Windows only” nowadays. The exceptions are those with aggressive, Windows-based anti-cheating tools baked in, something that countered difficult versus gamers excited to dive into a brand-new superhero shooter.

Marvel Rivalsan Overwatch-ish free-to-play hero shooter launched in early December 2024, has all the common huge online video game components: an in-game store with skins and personalizations, fight passes, and anti-cheating tech. While Proton, which powers the Linux-based Steam Deck’s capability to play practically any Windows video game, has actually come really far in a couple of years’ time, its greatest blind areas are these type of online-only video games, like Grand Theft Auto OnlineFortniteFate 2, Apex Legends,and so forth. The very same opts for Mac gamers, who, if they can work previous DirectX 12, can frequently get a Windows video game operating in CrossOver or Parallels, minus any anti-cheat tools.

Exists damage in attempting? For a while, there was 100 years’ worth. As detailed in the r/macgaming subreddit and at r/SteamDeck, numerous gamers who effectively got Marvel Rivals working would get a “Penalty Issued” notification, with an offense “detected” and prohibits released till 2124. Must such a restriction stand, gamers ran the risk of completely missing out on the much-prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, nearly particular to take place eventually because period.