Yup, you’ll be fine. If a game has a Linux version though, you’ll still need to download some portion of it. By the way, just don’t use NTFS to play on Linux.

Why not NTFS? Back when I used to dual-boot, I always used the NTFS on my shared games drive. Never had any problems, especially with ntfs-3g on Linux

It is possible that you didn’t have problems but it has a huge potential for that. WINE uses Linux symlinks and that’s the main reason why it’s not a good idea using NTFS for that, since when you boot Windows it’ll correct those files because Windows and Linux have different case-sensitivity. Basically Windows will corrupt those files and you will have problems regarding that. If you don’t boot into Windows you probably won’t have problems though. On the other hand if you don’t boot into Windows, why use NTFS. :)

Yep, I imaged my friend’s game drive to test this out (they have many games) and sure enough, some didn’t work after booting into Windows and later launching them with WINE. Thanks for the clarification :)