My wife (who current away from for a few months) enjoys playing SIMS 3. The only condition she has for installing Linux on her machine is if she can continue playing it there.
Now I know that Steam + Proton allows almost all games to run, but I am currently not in a situation where I can try it out on a laptop. I thought before proceeding, I’d ask the community’s experience / opinion.
I’ve played it before on Linux.
In general, you can just check ProtonDB, which will have an entry for the games with status reports.
It has a Gold status.
https://www.protondb.com/app/47890
In 2025, my general take for Steam games isn’t even to check any more. I can list a very few games that I want to play that don’t work – Command: Modern Operations is the most prominent. But it’s pretty rare now.
The main issue that comes up is some low level anticheat stuff used in some multiplayer competitive games, like first person shooter deathmatch games, which doesn’t necessarily like Linux. Not a genre I play any more.
EDIT: For anyone else who is interested in Command: Modern Operations, I’m looking forward to Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age coming out of Early Access, as it’s probably the closest thing to the above game and does run on Proton. Still has a lot of work left, though – the manual, which is normally quite substantial for milsims like this, is barely a few notes at this point.