How to hide Windows only games in the Steam Store

aBundleOfFerrets , 7 months ago

Steam supports this natively. In the steam desktop client, click your profile in the top right and push “Account details” now scroll down to “PLATFORM PREFERENCES” and uncheck windows.

joneskind OP , 7 months ago

I already did that but unfortunately I keep getting Windows only games appearing in the Store

frozen , 7 months ago

I think it’ll be really difficult, if not impossible, to hide all Windows-only games, as I believe Steam will still show Deck-verified games and other games that run on Proton well. ProtonDB lets you exclude Linux-native games, so if they have that information, there may be another service somewhere that lets you filter to only include native games, but I don’t know of one.

ShaunaTheDead , 7 months ago

I may be wrong but I think it only does that if you enable proton compatibility in the settings.

bjoern_tantau , 7 months ago

“Problem” is that since the Steam Deck came out thousands of games have been verified to be officially supported. Most of them Windows native.

Plus, for many Linux native games (like the new Tomb Raiders, for instance) the Windows version under Proton actually runs better. I think it’s mostly due to the Linux version often being done by an external developers and their contracts running out, while the Windows version is still getting updates.

muhyb , 7 months ago

Go to

Store >> Menu >> Your store >> Preferences >> Platform Preferences >> deselect Windows

joneskind OP , 7 months ago

I did that already, but keep getting ads for games like Icarus that don’t even support the Steam Deck via Proton

muhyb , 7 months ago

In that case you should check store.steampowered.com/linux on browser, or go to Store >> Categories >> SteamOS+Linux.

joneskind OP , 7 months ago

Thanks for your advice.

I didn’t manage to hide Windows only everywhere but I found a turnaround by using the “Category” tab.

Not as efficient as I wanted it to be, but at least I got the information I want

muhyb , 7 months ago

No problem!

Well, at least that one works. Though gotta remind this: There are games in Linux category and they suppose to work as a native game however a handful of games don’t work at all due to their one time Linux port by another studio. Usually using Proton fix this issue but this is not something you want so take this as an advice and check the game on ProtonDB and see if the native version of the game you wanna buy works correctly. Also there are many cases of games that using Proton runs better than their native version.

dlove67 , 7 months ago

Always hide them? I don’t think so, but you could just browse store.steampowered.com/linux ?

Though it may include officially supported proton games? Not sure, tbh.