You need to go to Steam settings and enable Steam Play for all titles, otherwise Steam will only show you native/verified games as playable.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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Also I seem to remember doing the same on my Deck a while back, possibly he also did it there but forgot about it since this is a do once and never again thing.
That was exactly what happened. Once I realized it, I smacked my forehead.
It's funny because when you described your problem I also knew immediately what the issue was since I remember turning that setting on for my gaming PC back when steam play was new (been gaming on Linux exclusively since 2016).
But for the life of me I can not remember turning on that setting on my steam deck. I must have since it works with all games but I really can't remember switching it on.
I'm surprised that isn't the default.
By default only the officially supported games are listed. If a game is not supported this does not in.any way mean that it will not work. In my experience everything except some anticheat infested games will not work. For some rare games some tinkering is necessary, yiucan typically find infos here in the protondb
To make all games visible, go to your settings then go to the “Compatibility” settings, then locate the “Steam Play” section. Toggle on the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles,” choose the latest Proton version from the dropdown menu, click “OK,” and restart Steam.
Thanks for the info. All set up now, and downloading games!
Did you turn on steamplay/proton on in the settings? Including the toggle to use it for all titels?
Of course does not mean all games are playable, but they at least should so up in your library to try.
You can test a windows game and especially single player games most just work. If you have some problems you can check it on protondb.com. Maybe someone already found a simple solution.
I've got it all set up now, thanks for the instructions. Super exited to try this out.
I really don't know why they don't enable this by default on a Linux installation.
Since I can see you already got help to solve your problem. Welcome to Linux, you made the right choice.
If you like Linux and you end up staying, next time buy AMD, everything will be easier and ready out of the box.