This is not a drill: All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now playable on Linux as of Valve's most recent Proton beta, plus 17 others and your EA library (until EA breaks it again)

Proton—Valve's Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer that makes so much of your Steam library work on Steam Deck and Linux desktops—got a new big number today, in the form of the first Proton 11 beta release.

This one incorporates goodies from (the also recently released) Wine 11, on which Proton is based, and you might already have seen that it marks the first glimpse of an Arm64 version of Proton that Valve intends to put to use in the Steam Frame.

But it's also, well, a new Proton version, one that you can put to use right now on your nearest Linux thing, and it brings with it a whole bunch of newly playable games. Games like the recently-Steamified original versions of Resident Evil 1 and 2, Shogun: Total War, and—this is the big one for me—Deadly Premonition.

Deadly Premonition is one of five games that Valve has marked as entirely "Newly playable" on this latest iteration of Proton (I'll include the full list down below), while the others are part of a 13-strong list of games that have...