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.
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.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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tfk 3 days ago
Never heard of this one, ignore list updated.
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Pyrate 3 days 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 3 days ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A fitting quote: scnr
https://youtu.be/TyUlyqO9K6o?t=43
A fitting quote: scnr
https://youtu.be/TyUlyqO9K6o?t=43
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klementineQt 3 days 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.
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 3 days ago
We apologize for any [inconvenience] and recommend switching to play other available titles.
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robot2642 3 days 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 3 days ago
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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@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 3 days ago
Always a load of wank when a dev team goes the "AnTi-ChEaT" excuse for disabling Linux support
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benstor214 3 days ago
@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 3 days 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).
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 3 days ago
@benstor214 Nah, just ignoring those games.
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BladePupper 3 days 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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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.
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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tohur a day ago
I am well past the phase of dual booting just for a few games .. sorry if your game doesn't support Linux and most certainly to have such a anti-Linux take I will ignore your game.. No game is worth me having Winblows on my PC anymore even though couple games I miss alot and will play again if they ever enable their anti-cheat for Linux.
Last edited by tohur on 1 Jun 2025 at 5:33 am UTC
Last edited by tohur on 1 Jun 2025 at 5:33 am UTC
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ContainerRunner 22 hours ago
I just hope Gaijin doesn't drop the support for other titles too. I'm playing War Thunder actively and also spent some money in it. It's the one title that I am regularly playing with my Windows friends. I really don't like dual booting anymore.
It's sad when existing mature games are dropping Linux and one of your favorite titles that worked just fine go unplayable (like Battlefield V).
It's sad when existing mature games are dropping Linux and one of your favorite titles that worked just fine go unplayable (like Battlefield V).
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I don't play always-online games, which automatically solves that problem for me. Really, on average these games don't last past a couple years. You have exceptions like Fortnite and other bigger ones which end up lasting longer but they're all ticking time bombs
If the game is offline playable, that is, offers private servers and/or LAN modes, that automatically avoids the problem because server hosts can decide not to use anti-cheat and so Linux communities can form.
But to each their own. I think this will stay a reality forever, you can't both have a user-friendly OS and an OS that remote parties can trust you probably didn't cheat on. As long as these publishers offer only official servers in an online-only game that is hyper-competitive and tries to protect its image of not hosting cheaters, this will be the case.
Last edited by Altefier on 2 Jun 2025 at 6:47 am UTC
If the game is offline playable, that is, offers private servers and/or LAN modes, that automatically avoids the problem because server hosts can decide not to use anti-cheat and so Linux communities can form.
But to each their own. I think this will stay a reality forever, you can't both have a user-friendly OS and an OS that remote parties can trust you probably didn't cheat on. As long as these publishers offer only official servers in an online-only game that is hyper-competitive and tries to protect its image of not hosting cheaters, this will be the case.
Last edited by Altefier on 2 Jun 2025 at 6:47 am UTC
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