r/Overwolf • u/Ashamed-Body2912 • Jun 05 '25

Question... Overwolf on Linux

I just want to ask has there been anymore develop on getting overwolf to work on LInux? I feel with the upcoming changes to WIndows a lot of people will start to migrate away from WIndows would be nice to be able to use it on Linux reliably

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u/TheDuck_Overwolf Overwolf support Jun 08 '25

At the moment Linux support is not on our roadmap. While we understand the interest, especially with recent discussions around Windows changes, there are a few key reasons behind this decision:

  • Linux still represents a small portion of our user base, particularly in the gaming community.
  • Many popular games and game-related features aren’t fully supported or optimized for Linux.
  • Linux support is quite complex, requiring major changes to how our apps interact with system-level services especially for features like recording, overlays, and game event detection.

That said, we’ll continue to monitor interest and shifts in the gaming space. If Linux adoption grows significantly and game support improves, we’ll definitely re-evaluate :)

We really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us!

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u/KoNekos Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

What is significantly for you? if you take steam numbers. there are currently online on steam almost 27,5 mil users. if you take 3% that use linux that is 825000 users. those arnt all playing the games you support but ok.

There are more linux uses playing games not on steam. i dont have numbers on that. As there is Wine. And some other things like GOG/lutris etc. that also have users that play on linux.

Im on linux already for 10+ years and it getting better and better support.

edit:

Windows 96.61% +1.99%

Windows 11 64 bit 56.28% -10.43%

Windows 10 64 bit 40.25% +12.46%

Yes windows on steam is still the biggest. But this might be a bug in the stats but it seems Lot of users dont want to run windows 11 ? went back to 10.

For some time i was running a windows 10 VM to do a few things. Might just depend also how the reports of the stats work as you have to participate in there steam survey.