[Dylan16807]

I'm confused. Please define "emulate Steam games".

[jtvjan]

There are replacements for steamapi.dll that let you play games without needing to have Steam open (e.g. "Goldberg"). These are sometimes called 'Steam Emulators'.

[Dylan16807]

They're emulating the steam service itself though, not the games. That's very different.

[squeaky-clean]

Given how Proton works, one could even make the argument that the SteamDeck's primary function is to emulate steam games.

[zamalek]

Wine Is Not an Emulator (that's what it stands for).

[squeaky-clean]

Yes we all know the joke, but it very much is an emulator. Otherwise Yuzu is not an emulator either since it mostly just translates the Switch graphics API calls to equivalent DirectX ones