If you want something that just works, PopOS is a great option yes. If you feel more adventurous you can go on something more bleeding edge (they are called like this for a reason) like EndeavourOS which is arch derivative.
If you are running W11 with Secure Boot enabled, then I would recommend you to go with Fedora as I don’t think either PopOS or EndeavourOS supports it.
At the end of day, games are just proprietary binary blobs so them being native or not doesn’t make a huge difference. Lets be honest, native Linux game used to be second class citizen anyway even when officially supported, at least Proton does a really good job running those Windows games.