CRSED: Cuisine Royale devs confirm end of Linux / Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe - 30 May 2025 at 1:31 pm UTC
Last updated: 31 May 2025 at 8:12 pm UTC

CRSED: Cuisine Royale is a battle royale from Darkflow Software / Matter Team and Gaijin Network Ltd, and now it's unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck. Previously the game was known as CRSED: F.O.A.D.

Earlier in May, they updated their anti-cheat to BattlEye, whereas previously it used Easy Anti-Cheat. Both of which can be enabled to work on Linux platforms including SteamOS / Steam Deck. It seems in this case with the swap and the removal of the Native Linux build, the developer has decided not to enable BattlEye.

Our anti-cheat compatibility page was updated when the change happened.

In a post on Steam they said:

Dear players!

We’d like to inform you that CRSED: Cuisine Royale is no longer supported on the Linux operating system.

We apologize for any [inconvenience] and recommend switching to play on other available platforms.

CRSED: Cuisine Royale screenshot

Valve rated it Steam Deck Verified, so that will need to change soon.

Compared with the likes of Apex Legends removing support and GTA Online also shutting Linux out, this is not quite the same kind of loss considering CRSED: Cuisine Royale barely hits 208 players online each day. Still, it does only further highlight the ongoing anti-cheat problem for Linux gaming. One issue I truly hope Valve can solve now that SteamOS 3 has seen a wider release.

CRSED: Cuisine Royale | Release Date: 12th December 2019

Official links:

Steam

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Proton, Steam Deck, Anti-Cheat, Battle Royale, Steam | Apps: CRSED: Cuisine Royale

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14 comments

tfk a day ago

Never heard of this one, ignore list updated.

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Pyrate a day ago

Never heard of this one, ignore list updated.

Need one of those Steam curator lists but for "Anti-Linux" or "refuse to flip the Linux toggle".

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Corben a day ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A fitting quote: scnr

https://youtu.be/TyUlyqO9K6o?t=43

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klementineQt a day ago

Certainly an interesting decision considering the player count. Big games might not have to care about Linux gamers, but when your player count is barely big enough for more than a single battle royale game...

The unfortunate part is that I actually love this game. I wish it never fell off like it did, but the devs neglected the balance and started implementing broken abilities on characters that you were clearly intended to buy vs. earning in-game.

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AsciiWolf a day ago

Supporter Plus

We apologize for any [inconvenience] and recommend switching to play other available titles.

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robot2642 a day ago

That sucks honestly, i liked playing this game sometimes... i guess i will only be able to play it on ps4 now.

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Cybolic a day ago

Supporter Plus

Well, on the upside, this is the first time I've seen an announcement of removing Linux support be universally panned in the comments on Steam. Guess the winds have changed!

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Purple Library Guy a day ago

@Cybolic Huh. I noticed something similar a couple days ago. That article about how SteamOS smacks Windows on the Legion Go S . . . I went to look at that guy's video on Youtube to see how the comments were looking. Dude has more than three and a half million subscribers, and the comments were a Windows hatefest. I was expecting mixed, I was expecting some people to be defending Windows and dissing SteamOS/Linux, but no . . . the cynicism and venom about Windows was just heartwarming. Microsoft should watch out, mind share might be slipping.

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DryPapHmrBro a day ago

Always a load of wank when a dev team goes the "AnTi-ChEaT" excuse for disabling Linux support

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benstor214 23 hours ago

Supporter

@tfk Did you ignore the developer? I can only ignore the publisher Gaijin as the developers Darkflow Software and Matter Team don't seem to have a steam page.

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StalePopcorn 23 hours ago

"We apologize for any [inconvenience] and recommend ~~switching to play on other available platforms~~ not supporting us as we don't support you." FTFY

I never heard of this game before now. If you're going to go out of your way to make sure your product doesn't work on Linux—an asshole move AFAIC—and releasing a tone-deaf PR announcement, I can't find myself doing anything but ignoring your studio. I'd be more upset had I paid anything into this, as [we know] has been the case with other asshole publishers (ie; EA).

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tfk 22 hours ago

@benstor214 Nah, just ignoring those games.

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BladePupper 20 hours ago

The apology is so sincere you can tell by how they decided to not proofread anything and forgot how to spell "inconvenience". I bet the playerbase really felt that.

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80sJoystickman 12 hours ago

I did enjoy playing the game the few times I did but found it took ages to find a match and when I did manage some of the time I would end up playing with a incomplete team, even to the point i could end up playing solo.

The game was very much like pubg which was fun but I cant see myself booting up windows just to play this game.

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