HANDHELD NEWS – Players using the Steam Deck – or Linux – have reason to celebrate with the new version of Proton.

The Steam Deck is a great choice for retro games because they generally don’t require much storage space or have high system requirements. However, this doesn’t mean their Steam versions always receive a “Steam Deck Compatible” rating. We encountered this issue ourselves when we tried one of the retro Capcom games that recently appeared on Steam. GOG brought this game to Valve’s platform, and we wrote about it.

Steam Deck HQ published the release notes for the Proton Experimental update, which state that several games have become playable. From Dust, Metal Gear Survive, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and a few other titles are on the list, as are Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and Dino Crisis 2. However, you must enable the Proton Experimental feature for this to work, and the games have not yet been verified, so the experience will not be perfect. The site also notes that the FMV scenes in Dino Crisis 2 still don’t work as intended without community-made patches. If you’ve ever wanted to be startled by a dog jumping through a window while riding a train or participating in a Zoom call, now is the perfect time.

It’s great to see the older Resident Evil games getting attention, even though the remakes are impressive. Capcom executives surely don’t understand why we’d want to play the original games when the new ones are available. To us, it’s obvious: What was good in 1996 won’t be any less good in 2026. Even if the original games were somewhat clunky, those cool remakes wouldn’t exist without them, as they borrowed their concepts from the originals.

Source: PCGamer, Steam Deck HQ, Github