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Gaming Tools

  • 🌐 ⭐ ProtonDB - Your go-to for checking compatibility of Steam games with Linux
  • ProtonUp-Qt - GUI for installing and managing custom Proton and Wine versions
  • Proton-GE - Custom Proton with additional features
  • Wine-GE - Custom Wine package, made by the same person who made Proton-GE, but for non-Steam games
  • wine-wayland - Allows playing Vulkan and DirectX 9/11 games with pure Wayland and WINE
  • DXVK - A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 that allows running 3D applications using Wine
  • vkBasalt - Post-processing layer for Vulkan applications

Performance and optimization tools

  • GameMode - Prioritize game over other tasks, similar to Windows counterpart
  • MangoHud - An overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more
  • GOverlay - Easy to use GUI for configuring MangoHud
  • Luxtorpeda - Steam Play compatibility tool to run games using native Linux libraries

Steam tools

GOG / Epic Games

Game Management

  • Lutris - Direct access to games from Humble, Steam and Epic Games as well as a library manager and launcher
  • GameHub - Unified library for all your games

Overclocking

  • CoreCtrl - Profile-based overclocking utility
  • NVBurner - MSI Afterburner alternative for users using Nvidia graphic cards

Game-Specific Tools

Roblox

  • Sober - Experimental project bringing a way to play Roblox on Linux

Minecraft