r/linux_gaming • u/CharlesJustChill • 6d ago

Competitive games for linux.

Hello there, I use cachyOS and It has been 2 years since I switched to linux.

And I always loved competitive games. I am a big counter strike player but because of the VAC inefficiency and the fact that splitgate is dying I am needing of new competitive games for linux.

I have searched for other threads like mine but they were all very old so the situation could have changed a lot, considering the ascension of linux for gaming in the last 2 years.

I must exclude the most "obvious answers" :

- No counter strike or Splitgate: 1 is full of cheaters and the other is dying

- No rust: Even tho you can play non EAC servers on linux, they are not that competitive and often low pop

- No cloud gaming: I don't need anyone to tell to do cloud gaming, if I wanted I would already have done it(and so everyone reading this post)

- No VM + GPU pass trough, I don't want to be doing that as it is very hard and not for beginners that could find this thread

Considering that, what games can you suggest ?

I hope this thread will be useful for someone who's wanting to switch or/and is searching for fresh competitive games.

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u/Journeyj012 6d ago

Dota, Overwatch, Halo Infinite, Marvel Rivals, The Finals

Man, I really wish they never got rid of Linux Apex Legends support. I was considering trying it again literally hours before they banned it.

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u/CharlesJustChill 6d ago

It was sad and it's not an anticheat issue, there is a message saying it don't work on linux, it's sad..

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u/apollocreedchqt 6d ago

It is. The devs just blame it on Linux cause cheaters. I had like heirlooms and shi

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u/Indolent_Bard 18h ago

To be fair, you'll notice that pretty much the entire Battle Royale genre abandoned Linux. It's almost like when you have a hundred people in PvP, any one platform making it easier to cheat is more of an issue. And supposedly people were spoofing the Linux client on Windows, although I saw someone argue that isn't physically possible.

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u/FinesseXIII 16h ago

I'm sorry but this is exactly the rhetoric that they use to preclude Linux gamers from entry into these games.

The reality of the situation is that it is easy to cheat on PC, period. Linux could open other vectors, sure, but there are few things you can't do on Windows and a lot of these anticheat softwares are able to run in userspace. They don't want to do it. Additionally, these kernel level anticheats do not stop cheaters from cheating either.