The game is natively supported on Linux (Steam) and is Steam Deck Verified.

However, there are some caveats:

"Linux users are no second-class citizens. We’ve stripped the Steam bondage so you can run this on any distro without a client. Vulkan runs smooth as silk."

High-performance gaming is no longer shackled to a single operating system. The Philosophy of Open Source: Running a massive commercial title like

. DRM is often criticized for slowing down CPU-heavy games like Civilization Digital Defiance: