Still not Bloons Tower Defense 4 π’
Edit: stupidly did not give the version number of one of my favorite games and a cherished childhood memory of my children
Had no idea like every other version is Proton :/
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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Really? I couldβve sworn Iβd played that on Linux before, unless itβs been a lot longer than I thought since I touched it. Are we talking BTD6 on steam specifically?
Works for me, it's just a unity game. Which one you struggling with?
Seems to run fairly well. Has Platinum/Gold protondb ratings for most releases:
Bloons TD 6
https://www.protondb.com/app/960090
Blooms TD 5
https://www.protondb.com/app/306020
Bloons TD Battles
https://www.protondb.com/app/444640
Bloons Monkey City
https://www.protondb.com/app/1252780
Bloons Adventure Time TD
https://www.protondb.com/app/979060
Bloons TD Battles 2
https://www.protondb.com/app/1276390
Bloons Card Storm
https://www.protondb.com/app/2876550
On Steam****
You can run non-steam windows games on linux as well, even without steam installed.
No.
90% of Windows games on steam.
The real number is way higher. Stuff made in the 00s probably runs better under wine than on windows 10 o or 11 but was usually distributed outside Steam.
You don't need to use steam to use wine and proton. I do this pretty much every day, playing games from GOG, or from itch.io. where you get the executable for the game doesn't matter. I'm currently part way through a run of Baldur's Gate 1 from GOG, and it's a Windows executable. You could set up a wine prefix manually, but there's options like lutris, bottles, or play on Linux to handle that for you. I've played games from battle.net and ea app as well, all on linux by setting up proton in Lutris.
Yes I know. That's what I just said.
the 90% figure is for games on Steam