{"id":281684,"date":"2026-06-25T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/theres-a-surprising-amount-of-major-games-you-cant-play-on-valves-steam-machine-here-are-eight-of-the-biggest-and-why\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:01:10","slug":"theres-a-surprising-amount-of-major-games-you-cant-play-on-valves-steam-machine-here-are-eight-of-the-biggest-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/theres-a-surprising-amount-of-major-games-you-cant-play-on-valves-steam-machine-here-are-eight-of-the-biggest-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a surprising amount of major games you can’t play on Valve’s Steam Machine – here are eight of the biggest, and why"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a surprising amount of major games you can’t play on Valve’s Steam Machine – here are eight of the biggest, and why<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/steam-machine-linux-steamos-anti-cheat-unplayable-games-list<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-25 05:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.eurogamer.net<\/a><\/p>\n

The Steam Machine may be one of the most exciting hardware launches this year, but depending on the types of games you play, it may not end up replacing your existing console or PC just yet. That’s simply because it won’t be able to play some of the biggest games around.<\/p>\n

This has nothing to do with its hardware capabilities. In fact, the Steam Machine could easily run most of those games. The reason instead comes down to a very boring software limitation.<\/p>\n

The Steam Machine, just like Valve’s own Steam Deck, runs a modified version of Linux. Valve calls it SteamOS, and though it has moved mountains in terms of making gaming on Linux viable, there’s one obstacle that continues to plague it: anti-cheat.<\/p>\n

More specifically, it’s the anti-cheat software that runs alongside the game, because in the majority of cases – regardless of who made the anti-cheat software – these programs simply do not support Linux.<\/p>\n

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It would take an entire other piece to discuss the reasons why that’s the case, but the objective reality is that if a game has a form of anti-cheat, it’s unlikely to run on Linux, and therefore, by extension, Steam Machine. The number of games today with anti-cheat is large, and though some developers have found a way to make it work, the majority haven’t. Unfortunately for us, that list includes several big, beloved games.<\/p>\n

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It’s worth keeping in mind that, even if the game has an offline mode or single-player content, if it requires an anti-cheat check, you won’t be able to play. Finally, it’s possible to side-step these limitations by installing Windows, but that would defeat the entire purpose of the console-like device.<\/p>\n

Here are the games that, as of the time of writing, you cannot play on Steam Machine.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: Bungie<\/span><\/p>\n

Though it just received its final update, Destiny 2 remains one of the most popular games on Steam. There may not be more support planned, but Bungie’s looter-shooter RPG managed to…<\/p>\n

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