About
Titanfall is the debut title from Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by the creators of the original Call of Duty. Built on a heavily modified Source engine, it pairs fast wall-running pilot combat with summonable mech-like Titans across team-based online matches. Critically acclaimed at its 2014 launch, it had no single-player campaign and was online-multiplayer-only. EA and Respawn delisted it from storefronts in December 2021 after persistent DDoS and cheating problems, but kept the official servers running for existing owners.
Screenshots
Official store screenshots from Steam — deckport links them, never rehosts. Hover to pause; click to preview.
Identity
Launch
- Binary
- Titanfall.exe
- Needs files
- none beyond the binary
Proton
- Version
- GE-Proton
- Winetricks
- —
- ProtonDB
- ProtonDB Gold runs perfectly after tweaks
⚙ Setup notes
DRM: Delisted Steam game (appid 1454890), removed from sale in Dec 2021 — passes the not-for-sale rule.
Online-only: Original Titanfall is online-multiplayer-only; EA/Respawn kept the official servers online for existing owners.
Proton: ProtonDB rates it gold and community reports confirm it runs on Linux/Proton/Deck. Use GE-Proton — it smooths over the EA App/Origin launcher and in-game overlay handshake that can otherwise block boot or login on stock Proton.
Binary: The binary is Titanfall.exe in the install's root.
Controller: Native controller support (console-origin FPS, full gamepad), so no Steam Input hack is needed.
Install: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links the game files.
The one thing to know
Supply your own copy. deckport links nothing.
Online-only: this is an online-multiplayer-only game with no offline/campaign mode — playability depends entirely on the official servers being up, and they have historically suffered DDoS/cheater outages, so the experience can be hit-or-miss.
DRM: Delisted Dec 2021 (no longer for sale).
Proton: ProtonDB gold; community reports confirm it runs on Deck/Proton via GE-Proton.
Login: goes through the EA App/Origin layer; GE-Proton handles the overlay/launcher handshake that stock Proton can stumble on.
Controller: Full native gamepad support, no Steam Input layout required.
Community guides
Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.
Get the artwork
deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick
the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the
game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the
Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.
Run it on your Deck
Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your
Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game
into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it
writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version)
and registers the shortcut with artwork.