Max Payne works with a platinium rating, see in winehq: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=661 and also in protondb: https://www.protondb.com/app/12140?device=any

Just because a game hasn’t been verified by Steam does not mean it doesn’t work.

I regularly play games that are not verified.

By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)

I prefer gog.com

I refuse to buy a game that has DRM or anti cheat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan

as someone else said, it’s a “standing on the shoulders of giants” moment for Valve

I feel like attributing this to Valve is really disrespectful to the folks who developed wine for decades (and more recently also Vulkan). The real game changer is Vulkan, which made Linux graphics to be competitive with DirectX. (OpenGL interfaces to DirectX was simply not competitive)

good bot!