Anti-cheat vendors
Who builds each anti-cheat, how deep it runs in your system, and how well it plays with Linux and the Steam Deck.
- Linux: High
Easy Anti-Cheat
Epic Games
The most widely deployed third-party anti-cheat, now part of Epic Online Services.
- Privilege
- Kernel on Windows, user-space on Linux
- Tracked games
- 373
- Working on Linux
- 47%
- Linux: Partial
BattlEye
BattlEye Innovations (independent)
Long-running anti-cheat used by large shooters and survival games.
- Privilege
- Kernel on Windows, user-space on Linux
- Tracked games
- 81
- Working on Linux
- 40%
- Linux: Blocked
Riot Vanguard
Riot Games
Always-on kernel anti-cheat protecting Valorant and Riot's other competitive titles.
- Privilege
- Kernel / Ring 0
- Tracked games
- 4
- Working on Linux
- 0%
- Linux: Blocked
RICOCHET
Activision (Call of Duty)
Kernel-level anti-cheat built for the Call of Duty franchise.
- Privilege
- Kernel / Ring 0
- Tracked games
- 8
- Working on Linux
- 0%
- Linux: High
VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat)
Valve
Valve's user-space, server-assisted system, used across Steam games.
- Privilege
- User-space
- Tracked games
- 154
- Working on Linux
- 84%
- Linux: Partial
Denuvo Anti-Cheat
Denuvo (Irdeto)
Kernel-based anti-cheat from the makers of the Denuvo anti-tamper DRM.
- Privilege
- Kernel / Ring 0
- Tracked games
- 8
- Working on Linux
- 100%
- Linux: Partial
EQU8
EQU8 (independent vendor)
Smaller anti-cheat vendor used by a handful of competitive and training titles.
- Privilege
- Kernel / Ring 0
- Tracked games
- 4
- Working on Linux
- 75%
Ratings are editorial summaries. Game counts and the working percentage (Supported + Running) are computed from the live Are We Anti-Cheat Yet dataset.